Sassi
Distinctive new books from Italian art book publisher, Sassi: intriguing subjects from the political to the playful, from social architecture to La Serenissima, all with a wonderful eye for image and design, and erudite and informative text.
See http://www.sassieditore.it/Download.html for the 2012 Sassi Italian-language catalogue.
Click on the book covers below for information sheets.
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The Wood Intarsia of Renaissance Italy
Luca Trevisan
325x275mm, 256pp, 250photos, 70,000 words
Publication autumn 2011
The Italian Renaissance was a fertile time for wood intarsia, a remarkable, sophisticated, intricate and often-overlooked artform. It developed alongside painting, sculpture and architecture and like them was the subject of much analysis and debate. Artists such as Giovanni da Verona worked as an intarsia artist as well as an architect, miniaturist and sculptor. Fully au fait with all the artistic trends of his time, his work reveals a perfect understanding of perspective. With a series of spectacular all-new photographs including Federico da Montefeltro’s ducal palace in Urbino this book traces the development of intarsia and describes the various regional styles. |
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Stucco
Unknown Masterpieces of Art History
Alessandra Zamperini
325x275mm, 336pp, 300 photos, 100,000 words
Publication autumn 2012
The first-ever comprehensive history of stucco in Europe. Stucco has not received the kind of attention lavished on painting, sculpture and architecture and yet it dates back to Egyptian times. It blossomed in the classical era and again from the Renaissance to the 19th century. Often seen as a simple, white and monochromatic art form, it has also has enjoyed long periods of more colourful expression. A Renaissance favourite, it took centre stage in Raphael’s stanze (1518) in the Vatican, continuing to be popular through the Baroque and Rococo periods, and was then taken up by Robert Adam. A remarkable story, wonderfully illustrated. |
Palladio (3 volumes): The Villas/ The Churches/The Palaces
Luca Trevisan
325x275mm, 224pp, 200 photos, approx 35,000 words
Publication: autumn 2012/2013
These three volumes will comprise the largest, most complete and
exhaustive publication ever realised on Palladio's work. Luca Trevisan traces the evolution of the thought and practice
of a great architect who
influenced the history and evolution of Western architecture
more than any other, highlighting the links between classical architecture and
Palladio's work, both designs and completed buildings.
With a contemporary design this book will be indispensable reading for any architect,
expert or interested layman who wants to understand this iconic architect. All rights available, excluding Italy, Germany.
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Low Cost Low Tech Architecture
Alessandro Rocca
240 x 165mm, 208pp, 200 photos, drawings
Publication: September 2010
All over the world for the last ten years, enterprising young architects have been building low-budget architecture and turning a lack of money into creative opportunity. The economic difficulties of recent years, together with the opening up of the developing world, have made space for a new vision of architecture, where sobriety becomes glamorous and the technical and creative skill of the best young architects produces new kinds of buildings: less opulent and more intelligent, less luxurious but cosier and more approachable. Low Cost Low Tech is a remarkable, eyecatching and intriguing testament to their achievements. Click for the complete book.
For press articles see http://www.domusweb.it/it/book-review/architettura-low-cost-low-tech/ and click on: For an information sheet click on the cover.
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Cuba Graffiti
Elena Scantaburlo, Luca Casagrande
230x230, 300pp, 250 photos, hardback
Autumn 2010
Recounts the history of the island through the murals, graffiti and road signs that have chronicled the fifty years since the revolution, producing a remarkable visual document and a tribute to the artistic talents and political resilience of the Cuban people, with an extra resonance now in the declining years of Castroism. The visual language and vibrancy of colour, and the triumph over officialdom the murals represent, add up to a legacy that's unique in the history of popular mural art. Click for sample spreads, for the complete book.
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Eighteenth Century Venice
Massimo Favila and Ruggero Rugilo
325x275mm, 272pp, colour ill throughout, approx 65,000 words
Publication: Autumn 2011
The last Golden Age of Venice, the age of the rococo, when Venice, as the authors vividly describe, and Luca Sassi captures memorably in his photographs, toned down the Baroque and became a place 'where surfeit and pomposity were giving way to the more muted tones of rococo bon gout'. From the boudoir to the expansive views of Canaletto and Guardi, this was a remarkable period in Venice's history, all the more so with our knowledge that it was to come to an abrupt end at the hand of Napoleon in 1807.
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Baroque Venice
The Opulence, Dreams and Illusions of a World in Decline
Massimo Favilla Filippo Pedrocco Ruggero Rugolo
325x275mm, 272pp, approx. 250 photographs
Publication: autumn 2009
The 17th century brought Venice’s last opportunity to respond on a cultural and artistic level to the inevitable destiny that was marginalising the Republic on the great stage of European politics. The urban fabric of the city still reflects the need that was felt at the time for grandiloquent signs of a supposed triumph – a desire that mingled hopes, dreams, and illusions with the harsh reality of politics and society. Excess and pomposity prevailed, fuelling a tendency for over-abundant ornamentation, a taste for the grotesque and the bizarre, and a craving for enormity and greatness. Baroque Venice is a remarkable celebration of a golden age. For spreads see
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365 Days of Flowers
170x235mm landscape, 736pp, 400 colour photos
Publication: September 2010
Flowers connect with our lives in a unique way, bringing joy, marking the seasons and special occasions, evoking memories, recalling friendships. This book makes that connection for every day of the year, combining an image a day with quotes from poems, literature, philosophy, song lyrics and even popular sayings and proverbs. A book that's a homage to nature, to the simple beauty of flowers and their individuality. A book to browse and to share, and even to write in: there's space for your own thoughts too.
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Dogs in Art
230x230mm, 336pp, approx. 200 ills + details
Publication: Autumn 2008
Dogs in Art offers us an extraordinary portrait gallery of dogs: we find them in the mosaics at Pompeii and in medieval sculptures, see elegant pedigree dogs being
distractedly stroked by kings, and charming mongrels in the works of Titian, dignified Renaissance hunting
dogs and many another incarnation. An alternative view of art history, and a fascinating story, Stafano Zuffi is our erudite guide. Click for sample pages.
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For a virtual tour click on:
http://www.sassieditore.it/CANI_NELL_ARTE/Cani-flip/index.html
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Cats in Art
230x230mm, 360pp, 185 photos + details
Publication: Spring 2007
The cat is the silent star of many a sculpture and painting, some of them renowned masterpieces, from Raphael, Leonardo, Veronese, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Renoir, Gauguin, Bonnard, Balthus and many another. Sometimes feigning sleep, but always vigilant, always a personality, as art historian Stefano Zuffi reveals in this remarkable book. Click for sample pages.
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Art and the Zodiac
325x270mm, 224pp, approx 200 ills,
Publication: Autumn 2009
Art and the zodiac have been intertwined ever since early astronomers identified the twelve signs, and by bringing together remarkable works like the Egyptian Denderah Zodiac, Roman reliefs, the Palazzo Schifanoia fresco cycle and Durer woodcuts this wonderfully illustrated book illustrates just how remarkable that tradition is. Chapters are devoted to each of the twelve signs. Click for sample pages.
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Art and the Zodiac pocket edition
165x137mm, 208pp, 150 illustrations,
c. 23,000 words
Publication: Autumn 2010
The zodiac has influenced not just the visual arts over millennia, but also the popular imagination, and this wonderful pocket book gives vivid pictorial form to the zodiac signs that are so much a part of the lives of so many of us. A general introductory essay is
followed by chapters which present the art and symbolism of the twelve months one by one.
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Palladio: Complete Works
400x310mm, 432pp, 400 illusrrations
Publication: 2010
This wonderfully illustrated, large-format volume will be simply the most complete volume ever published on Palladio. Linking buildings and the ideas that inspired them, classical Vitruvian architecture and the Renaissance, Luca Trevisan explores the work and the legacy of the architect who arguably influenced Western architecture more than any other single figure. Indispensable reading for architects, scholars and interested laymen alike. Click for the opening pages, for an extended section.
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African Wildlife Parks
280x280mm, 288pp, approx. 250 photographs
Publication: Autumn 2009
Gianni Maitan’s passion for wildlife photography has over fifteen years taken him to all the great parks and reserves of Africa, from Kenya to Namibia, searching out many of the least-known and least-accessible areas. The result is a stunning record of those unspoilt areas of the continent which still, however tenuously, retain their magical and timeless beauty. Click for sample pages.
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Venetian Baroque
Massimo Favilla and Ruggero Rugolo
325x275mm, 272pp, 250 photographs
Publication: 2009
Venice interpreted the Baroque in a unique and memorable way, combining over-abundant ornamentation and sheer scale against a backdrop of declining influence: the superiority that once came naturally now had to be maintained by inspiring wonder and awe, and a sense of theatre (inside as well as out) which inspires visitors to Venice to this day. With 250 colour photographs, a wealth of domes, ceilings, altars, statuary and ornament, this is a wonderful testament to the last golden age of the most beautiful city of earth. Click for sample pages.
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