Hero As Artist / Protest and Communication / Grandeur and Obedience / The Light of Experience

Table of Contents: “….): Giants and Heroes / The Decadence of the Popes / Michelangelo / Bound Captives / The Sistine Chapel / Raphael / Leonardo DaVinci / Man as a Mechanism /…”

Making copies in European art 1400-1600 : shifting tastes, modes of transmission, and changing contexts /

Table of Contents: “…Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini portrait and copies after his Woman and her toilette : recollections of the Alhambra's constellation halls, the hamman, and alchemy / Barbara von Barghahn -- Not just copies but variations, suggestions, interpretations and critical reception : Joos van Cleve and the lost Madonna of the cherries by Leonardo da Vinci / Mari Pietrogiovanna -- Pictorial copies in Granada during the early modern age / David García Cueto.…”
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The art of anatomy in medieval Europe / by McCall, Taylor

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1434 : the year a magnificent Chinese fleet sailed to Italy and ignited the Renaissance / by Menzies, Gavin

Table of Contents: “…Setting the scene -- A last voyage -- The emperor's ambassador -- The fleets are prepared for the voyage to the Barbarians -- Zheng He's navigators' calculation of latitude and longitude -- Voyage to the Red Sea -- Cairo and the Red Sea-Nile Canal -- China ignites the Renaissance -- To the Venice of Niccolo Da Conti -- Paolo Toscanelli's Florence -- Toscanelli meets the Chinese ambassador -- Columbus's and Magellan's world maps -- The world maps of Johannes Schoner, Martin Waldseemuller, and Admiral Zheng He -- Toscanell's new astronomy -- The Florentine mathematicians: Toscanelli, Nicholas of Cusa, and Regiomontanus -- Leon Battista Alberti and Leonard Da Vinci -- Leonardo Da Vinci and Chinese inventions -- Leonardo, Di Giorgio, Taccola, and Alberti -- Silk and rice -- Grand canals: China and Lombardy -- Firearms and steel -- Printing -- China's contribution to the Renaissance -- China's legacy -- Tragedy on the high seas: Zheng He's fleet destroyed by a Tsunami -- The conquistadores' inheritance: Our Lady of Victory.…”

Renaissance & early modern era (1308-1600) /

Table of Contents: “…The Black Death -- The Black Death: Two Readings -- Florentine Chronicle -- Europe in War and Peace -- Statute of Laborers -- Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI -- Malleus maleficarum -- The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field -- Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada -- Alhambra Decree -- Renaissance Arts and Letters -- Divine Comedy -- Petrarch's Letters -- Decameron -- Oration on the Dignity of Man -- The Praise of Folly -- The Prince -- History of Florence: "Lorenzo de' Medici" -- "Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor" -- "Of the Education of Children" -- New World Encounters and Conflicts -- Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America -- Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama -- Requerimiento -- New Laws of the Indies -- A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies -- Letter to King Philip of Spain -- The True History of the Conquest of New Spain -- The Protestant Reformation and After -- Ninety-five Theses -- Edict of Worms -- Act of Supremacy -- Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent -- The Life of St. …”
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The Medieval Military Engineer : From the Roman Empire to the Sixteenth Century / by Purton, P. F.

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Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention /

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Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention /

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Playthings in early modernity : party games, word games, mind games /

Table of Contents: “…Winerock -- Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry -- Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera -- The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger -- "Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis -- Predictive play : wheels of fortune in the early modern lottery book / Jessen Kelly -- Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco -- Trading and trick taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin -- The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer -- Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : geography and playing cards in early modern England / Serina Patterson -- Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter -- Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas / Nhora Lucía Serrano -- The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. …”
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Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention /

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The mapmaker's quest : depicting new worlds in Renaissance Europe / by Buisseret, David

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The medieval military engineer : from the Roman Empire to the sixteenth century / by Purton, P. F.

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Monuments man : the mission to save Vermeers, Rembrandts, Da Vincis, and more from the Nazis' grasp / by Rorimer, James J. 1905-1966, Rorimer, Louis, Rorimer, Anne