Ross King, Author . Walker $26 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3378-8
This record of an artist's adventures in the demimonde of 18th-century London, by the author of Brunelleschi's Dome
and Ex-Libris, has every bit of the former books' attention to detail but little of their fluidity. When a talented young
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Ross King, Author . Walker $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1395-7
When Pope Julius II saw Michelangelo's Pietà, he determined to have his grand tomb made by the artist. Summoned from Florence to Rome in 1508, Michelangelo found himself on the losing side of a competition between architects and the...
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Ross King, Author . Walker $28 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1466-4
NBCC finalist King (Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
) presents an engrossing account of the years from 1863—when paintings denied entry into the French Academy's yearly Salon were shown at the Salon des Refusés—to 1874,
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Ross King, Author . Atlas/HarperCollins $21.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-06-081717-6
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t was easy to find oneself on the wrong side of the ruler-du-jour in 16th-century Italy, which was controlled by corrupt families and defended by contract soldiers whose loyalties were readily purchased. Machiavelli ventured into this world with...
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Ross King, Author Walker & Company $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-8027-3357-3
Isaac Inchbold, middle-aged proprietor of Nonsuch Books, has never traveled more than 24 leagues from London, where by 1660 he has made his home above his bookshop for 25 years. King (Domino) opens his finely wrought tale with Inchbold's receipt of...
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Ross King, Author Penguin Books $24 (194p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1366-7
Walker was the hardcover publisher of Dava Sobel's sleeper smash, Longitude, and Mark Kurlansky's steady-seller Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World. This brief, secondary source-based account is clearly aimed at the same lay science-c
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Ross King, Author, Tristan Layton, Read by , read by Tristan Layton. Audio Renaissance $49.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-59397-877-8
Listening to Layton is like sitting at a Left Bank cafe with a British friend who knows both the history and gossip of the 1860s' Paris art scene and can put it all in political context. Layton has a friendly, low-pitched voice, good tempo and...
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Ross King, Author, Alan Sklar, Read by , read by Alan Sklar. Audio Editions $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-57270-306-3
King's historical account of the four years Michelangelo Buonarroti spent frescoing the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome is splendid, thorough and detailed. But its larger appeal lies in the way King (Brunelleschi's Dome) brings out the
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Ross King. Douglas & McIntyre with the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, $24.95 (528p) ISBN 978-1-55365-882-5
Award-winning art historian King (The Judgment of Paris) recounts the evolution of the Algonquin School in this biography of seven remarkable Canadian artists. On the eve of WWI, a small group of talented painters converged in the art department of...
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Ross King. Walker, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-8027-1705-4
Detail obsessed, easily distracted, and a notorious deadline-buster, Leonardo da Vinci was able to complete one of his two best works in just three years—all against a backdrop of war and occupation of Milan. King’s (Michelangelo and the Pope’s...
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