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'Study me reader, if you find delight in me...Come, O men, to see the miracles that such studies will disclose in nature.' Most of what we know about ...
Art and Evidence in the Italian Renaissance
Considers the business of picture-making in the Renaissance. In particular, the text discusses the role of the artist and the functions of works of ar...
Revised Edition
This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique, and explains the phenomenon of the w...
A leading authority on Leonardo da Vinci offers a stunning account of the life and thought of this unique artist. 60 illustrations, including a thumbn...
The Autobiography of Martin Kemp
Writing his own story Martin Kemp talks frankly about his upbringing in working class Islington, stardom and success with Spandau Ballet and the break...
The 100 Milestones
โSheds fascinating light . . . [a] compact highlight reel of the most important images of the thousands the artist produced.โ โThe New York Time...
A personally compelling introduction to Leonardo's genius, a classic monograph of Leonardo's art and his development....
Published to coincide with Leonardo?s 500th anniversary commemoration in 2019, and written by Martin J. Kemp, one of the world?s leading authorities o...
'Kemp is a natural storyteller... This book leads you on a journey through the life, work and legacy of one of history's most intriguing figures.' The...
Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now
A survey of representations of sex across cultures from ancient times to the modern day. Featuring such diverse works as Roman marbles, Japanese woodc...
How Image Becomes Icon
Explores the origins and evolution of eleven visual iconic images still found in today's culture, including Jesus, the Coke bottle, and Einstein's fam...
The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo Da Vinci to Now
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The People and the Painting
The true story of the Mona Lisa - the people behind it, how Leonardo painted it and what it meant to him, and its fortunes in the centuries since. Rea...
It's a Love Story
IT'S A LOVE STORY tells the incredible story of Martin and Shirlie Kemp - from the moment they set eyes on each other, through their stellar careers, ...
The Nature Book of Art and Science
Short, pithy, beautifully illustrated articles on various fascinating intersections of art and science, originally published in the British magazine N...
His 50 Greatest Ideas and Inventions, each Explained in Half a Minute
The bestselling 30-Second... series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title ...
A study of Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi, the world's most expensive painting; this volume recounts the story of the painting's modern-day discov...
" Johnny Klein is a rock casualty, a fallen 1980s popstar who has lost everything - his family, his money and his fame. Thrown a lifeline by an old co...
Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat
For almost five hundred years the central goal of European painting was the imitation of nature. Many artist and theorists, believing that imitation m...
Approaching the 500th anniversary of Leonardoโs death, the world- renowned da Vinci expert recounts his fifty- year journey with the work of the wor...
The Profile Portrait of a Milanese Woman
"This book provides an in-depth analysis of a work that can quite legitimately be termed "extraordinary". Drawn on vellum, in a complex and extremely ...
Seeing the World with the Eyes of God
This book contributes to the re-emerging field of 'theology through the arts' by proposing a way of approaching one of the most challenging theologica...
Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big Topics Art has always been part of history. But we often think of it as outside history. When we look at ...
Seeing Shapes in Art and Science
"All great achievements of science must start from intuitive knowledge," wrote Albert Einstein. In Structural Intuitions, a fascinating exploration of...
Ticket to the World is a joyous, nostalgic celebration of 80s culture from one man at the centre of it all....
A richly detailed guide to our culture, our history, our heritage and our art from religious painting to postmodernism by one of the world's greatest ...
Experience, Experiment and Design
"In this new study Martin Kemp illuminates the most fundamental aspect of Leonardo's work - how he thought visually. The pages of his notebooks teem w...
A massive appraisal of a hitherto little-known aspect of Kapoor's prodigious output This 400-page volume is the first publication to explore in depth ...
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, childrenโs stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act li...
The scientific quest to decipher Leonardo's painting is explored by renowned experts in the field. In this companion volume, a closer look is taken at...
"Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is renowned as a painter, designer, draftsman, architect, engineer, scientist, and theorist. His work as a sculptor is ...
Illustrated Essays on Science and Art
Views from the Outside : a Centennial Commemoration of Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968)
Dante and the Art of Divine Light
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the greatest European writers, whose untrammelled imaginative capacity was matched by a huge base in embracing t...
From Wham! to Spandau Ballet, 40 Years of Adventure
The story of Martin and Shirlie Kemp - from the moment they set eyes on each other, through their stellar careers, to raising a family together. It un...
A Report of a Social Action Research Project to Promote Sustainable Living Among Housing Association Residents
Susan Derges' work is an inquiry into the rhythms and cycles of nature, that explores both the elemental and metaphorical properties of water, mercury...