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6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + part I transcript book (ii, 226 pages ; 21 cm) + part I guidebook (ii, 64 pages ; 22 cm) + part II transcript book (ii, 234 pages ; 21 cm) + part II guidebook (ii, 65 pages ; 22 cm) + part III transcript book (ii, 248 pages ; 21 cm) + part III guidebook (ii, 80 pages ; 22 cm).
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English
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These lectures cover the art historical periods known as the Early Renaissance and the High Renaissance, which extended from about 1400 to about 1520. No era of artistic achievement is as renowned as the Renaissance, and no country holds a higher place in that period than Italy. The supreme works created in Florence, Rome, Venice, and other Italian cities by such masters as Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian have never...
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xvi, 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
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English
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"In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painting the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as savior of the world is "the rarest thing on the planet." Its $450 million sale price also makes it the world's most expensive painting. For two centuries, art dealers had searched in vain for the Holy Grail of art history: a portrait of Christ as the Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci. Many similar paintings...
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xii, 948 pages, 32 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm.
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English
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"The history of espionage is far older than any of today's intelligence agencies, yet the long history of intelligence operations has been largely forgotten. The codebreakers at Bletchley Park, the most successful World War II intelligence agency, were completely unaware that their predecessors in earlier moments of national crisis had broken the codes of Napoleon during the Napoleonic wars and those of Spain before the Spanish Armada. Those who do...
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