The King's Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein
By: Franny Moyle
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whos…
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1. Black Tudors: African Lives in Renaissance England
By: Miranda Kaufmann
2.00
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
A black porter publicly whips a white English gentleman in a Gloucestershire manor house. A heavily… read more
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2. A History of Pictures: From the Cave to the Computer Screen
By: Martin Gayford , David Hockney
4.16
Format: 422 pages, Hardcover
A picture, says David Hockney, is the only way that we can communicate what we see. Here, in a coll… read more
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3. Rasputin: Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
By: Douglas Smith
4.48
Format: 334 pages, Hardcover
On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically chang… read more
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4. The Six Wives of Henry VIII
By: Alison Weir
4.50
Format: None pages,
'At last we have the truth about Henry VIII's wives. This book is as reliable and scholarly as it i… read more
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5. Empires of the Sea: The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580
By: Roger Crowley
3.93
Format: 265 pages,
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, d… read more
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6. The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, love and art in Venice
By: Judith Mackrell
4.10
Format: 322 pages, Hardcover
Judith Mackrell brings to life the history of Venice's mysterious and idiosyncratic Palazzo Venier … read more
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7. Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
By: Laura Cumming
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Laura Cumming “combines first-rate art history with deeply felt m… read more
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"It is such a long journey out, this one, from where we came; this life, our life, the journey between the first and last shores."-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"We see pictures in time and place. We cannot see them otherwise. They are fragments of our lives, moments of existence that may be as unremarkable as rain or as startling as a clap of thunder. Whatev…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"I cannot get enough of Dutch art. You can turn to this other world -- and it is a picture world as no other, a whole society visualised through time and place, seasons and generations, moment by mome…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
"Fabritius is thirty-two, and I was the same age when I first wrote about his self-portrait. He and I remain the same age whenever we meet. He is dead, I am still alive, so the existential maths [sic]…"-Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
8. Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From standout scholar Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite presents a sparkling and very modern biogra… read more
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"To adore and to devour and to be devoured is its own kind of focus: a gasp of a different kind of oxygen."-Katherine Rundell, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
9. Agatha Christie: A Very Elusive Woman
By: Lucy Worsley
4.20
Format: 498 pages, Kindle Edition
A new, fascinating account of the life of Agatha Christie from celebrated literary and cultural his… read more
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10. Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, and the Marriage That Shook Europe
By: John Guy
4.16
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
“A fierce, scholarly tour-de-force. . . . Hunting the Falcon brilliantly shows how time, circumst… read more
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11. De Bourgondiërs: aartsvaders van de Lage Landen
By: Bart Van Loo
4.31
Format: 607 pages, Hardcover
Meesterverteller Bart Van Loo neemt de lezer op sleeptouw langs duizend jaar Europese geschiedenis.… read more
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12. Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
By: Dan Jones
3.92
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times bestselling historian makes his historical fiction debut with an explosive novel… read more
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"What matters is that you did not know the story. And the reason you did not...is that our ancestor William - through his deeds of arms, his force of personality and his vast conquests - had achieved …"-Dan Jones, Essex Dogs (Essex Dogs, #1)
13. The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder
By: Douglas Preston
3.81
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God , presents jaw-droppi… read more
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14. The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
By: Edward Dolnick
4.19
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Un apasionante thriller cultural. Un fascinante retrato de imperios antiguos y modernos, una mirada… read more
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"The cliché has it that an unknown subject is a closed book, but Egypt was different. Egypt was an open book, with illustrations on every page, that no one knew how to read."-Edward Dolnick, The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta Stone
15. Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
By: Bianca Bosker
4.16
Format: 370 pages, Hardcover
The author of Cork Dork takes readers on another fascinating, hilarious, and revelatory journey—thi… read more
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"Art Lovers pitied me: They said I lacked "Visual literacy", which they swore was downright dangerous in a world so saturated with pictures."-Bianca Bosker, Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See
16. The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of British History at Hampton Court
By: Gareth Russell
4.21
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The popular and “scrupulous historian” (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred y… read more
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17. The Bookseller of Florence: The Story of the Manuscripts That Illuminated the Renaissance
By: Ross King
3.98
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings--the dazzli… read more
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18. The Other Renaissance: From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
By: Paul Strathern
3.83
Format: 336 pages, ebook
An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philoso… read more
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19. Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I: The Mother and Daughter Who Changed History
By: Tracy Borman
4.26
Format: 302 pages, Hardcover
Anne Boleyn is a subject of enduring fascination. By far the most famous of Henry VIII's six wives,… read more
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20. Love Is Blind
By: William Boyd
3.97
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Love is Blind is William Boyd's sweeping, heart-stopping new novel. Set at the end of the 19th cent… read more
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"Naturally – she's an actress." He laughed wryly to himself. "Complications. Oh, yes." The doctor reflected and then said, "I always think a life without complications isn't really a life, you know. I…"-William Boyd, Love Is Blind
21. Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By: Leah Redmond Chang
4.18
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
The boldly original, dramatic intertwined story of Catherine de’ Medici, Elisabeth de Valois, and M… read more
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22. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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23. The Ratline: Love, Lies, and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive
By: Philippe Sands
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Hardcover
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadeführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on wh… read more
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24. African Europeans: An Untold History
By: Olivette Otélé
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Africans or African Europeans are widely believed to be only a recent presence in Europe, a feature… read more
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25. The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England
By: Joanne Paul
4.17
Format: 506 pages, Hardcover
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving an… read more
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26. The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune
By: Alexander Stille
3.47
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
The devolution of the Sullivan Institute, from psychoanalytic organization to insular, radical cult… read more
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27. The Women of Rothschild: The Untold Story of the World's Most Famous Dynasty
By: Natalie Livingstone
3.82
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
In The Women of Rothschild , Natalie Livingstone reveals the role of women in shaping the legacy of… read more
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28. The King's Painter: The Life of Hans Holbein
By: Franny Moyle
4.20
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
From a distinguished art historian, a dramatic reappraisal of Renaissance master Hans Holbein, whos… read more
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- european history
- tudor period
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29. Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth
By: Cathi Unsworth
3.96
Format: 543 pages, Kindle Edition
A Times Book of the YearA Mojo Book of the YearA Louder Than War Book of the YearA Waterstones Book… read more
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30. Puffins: Life on the Atlantic Edge
By: Kevin Morgans
4.67
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
In this new book, internationally renowned photographer Kevin Morgans celebrates the iconic Atlanti… read more
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