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Where I can buy the art in craft materials online or in Italy or Europe?

I use an online company, but as an alternative. I know there are many in the UK, but the postage is so expensive. Can anyone out there help?

Hello, Not sure where you need whereabouts to send, but a couple of UK company and is based on www.lakeland.co.uk and www.hobbycraft.co.uk. Sorry not sure about shipping costs. You could try eBay too! You can see there all the details that you want.

The Library on Display The World of the Aztecs in the Florentine Codex $14 September 2007 – paperback; 140×200 mm; 64 pp. – 52 colour illustrations -On the occasion of the European Heritage Days (29-30 September 2007). the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana celebrates one of the most famous 16th-century codices in its collections. MS Med. Palat. 218–20. containing the final version of the Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (“General History of the Things of New Spain”) by Bernardino de Sahagún (1499-1590) and commonly referred to as the Florentine Codex.A Spanish Franciscan friar who had arrived in Mexico as a missionary after the conquest of the region by Cortés (1519–21). Sahagún devoted his life to the study of indigenous cultures. Much like a modern-day anthropologist. he prepared questionnaires for prominent native elders. and from 1558. with the help of young Nahua students who had studied under him at Tlatelolco. compiled an unprecedented encyclopedia about the peoples and cultures of Central America. With its twelve books written in Nahuatl (the language most widely spoken in the region) and translated into Spanish. and its over 2.000 colour illustrations. the Florentine Codex is an extraordinary source of information about the myths. religious beliefs and practices. everyday life. history. traditional crafts and even eating habits of the Aztecs. with large sections devoted to animals and plants and a moving account of the Spanish Conquest and its devastating consequences.It soon began to be suggested that the Historia might encourage idolatry. and in 1577 Philip II of Spain ordered that all of Sahagún’s writings should be sent to Spain so as to prevent the work’s circulation. The friar wrote to the king himself in order to find out whether the precious codex had reached Europe. but never knew what had happened to it. At the age of almost eighty he set to work once again. spending his last years desperately trying to recover the material he believed had been lost.

The Tuscan Lifestyle $24 by P.F. Listri – publication year: 2002 – paperback with flaps. 230×280 mm. 160 pp. – 249 colour and b&w illustrations -The temptation is to view this as just one more book about Tuscany. Such a work would in any case be understandable. in the light of a recent survey indicating that Tuscany is seen from abroad as a “landscape of great beauty and environmental quality where everything is in a human dimension”. revolving around “the artistic. historic and cultural centre of Florence. transposed from the Renaissance to the contemporary age”. Yet this new publication has a rather different purpose. It does not dwell on the region’s famous products. it does not narrate once again its eventful and colourful history. nor focus on the sumptuous art works that comprise what is the finest and most extensive collection in the world. It does not extol to excess the unequalled atmosphere of the landscape nor is it over-emphatic in its praise of the region’s intrinsic sense of harmonious physical and mental proportion.What it does seek to do is to tie together these and other characteristics in order to grasp what concretely derives from them today. namely a style of life. an existential unicum. This is the region’s most precious quality. the specificity of a productive and innovative Tuscany that is fully integrated into the complexities of the contemporary age. Here art and crafts. tradition and innovation. nature and history. language and products. city and countryside blend together. giving living form to a quality of life which is now the rarest and most sought after of all commodities. one where it is possible to attain a greater sense of individual well-being and a more ordered and civil coexistence.The book also has the rare merit of highlighting important and perhaps less well-known aspects of Tuscanicity – its productive skills. traditional artefacts. flair for research. capacity for agriculture renewal and the achievements of sophisticated technology combined with the intelligence of an ancient tradition. The author explains and recounts how all these things hold together. how an invisible thread connects minute details of everyday life to the pinnacles of history and art. creating what can be defined as ‘Tuscan style’.This work does not focus on arid production figures and balance sheets. nor on the objects of the forced enthusiasm of tourists. Rather it recounts and persuades us of the validity of the points we have just mentioned. presenting the organic completeness of a small cosmos which combines the ancient and the modern and where a perspective a misura d’uomo yields a rare quality which is visible in everyday life.We are pleased to have promoted and encouraged this work. and we commend it to readers as a small Baedeker of the spirit. Whether it ends up in the hands of knowledgeable Tuscans or of curious foreign visitors. we believe it will be both useful and well-received

The Library on Display – The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex(3rd century BC-19th century AD) $14 edited by F. Arduini – with an essay by G. Cavallo – February 2008 – paperback; 140×200 mm; 96 pp. – 64 colour illustrations -Following the success of Imaginary Creatures. the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana inaugurates “The Shape of the Book: From Roll to Codex” (Florence. Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana. 15 February–31 July 2008). the second event of the Library on Display project. a series of theme-based exhibitions of Laurentian manuscripts.Both the exhibition and the catalogue are divided into two sections. the Papyrus Collection and the Manuscript Collection. The first section opens with the famous Sappho ostrakon first published by Medea Norsa (PSI XIII 1300). a potsherd on which a pupil from the 2nd century BC wrote some strophes of an ode possibly dedicated to Aphrodite. and includes waxed wooden tablets. a lead tablet. carbonized papyri. papyrus fragments (of particular interest are several documents from the Zenon Archive. 3rd century BC). and papyrus and parchment rolls and codices.Differing markedly in terms of format. production. script and decoration. the rolls and codices included in the second section illustrate significant stages in the evolution of the book form through the ages. Several manuscripts document the activity of notable centres of book production during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. from the imperial scriptorium at Constantinople to monasteries and high-quality workshops in Europe and particularly in 15th-century Florence. The section features a codex in Giovanni Boccaccio’s own hand. one of the models of the so-called “Danti del Cento” (a group of 100 manuscripts of Dante’s Divine Comedy produced in the 14th century) and examples of pocket and giant Bibles. ending with a superbly illuminated Persian manuscript and two Oriental scrolls from China and Japan respectively. unusual sights in Italian conservation libraries.The masterful introductory essay by Guglielmo Cavallo offers an overview of the history of the book from the papyrus roll to the invention of the printing press. a field in which his expertise is virtually unparalleled.Franca Arduini is Director of the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (Laurentian Library). Florence.Guglielmo Cavallo is Professor of Greek Palaeography at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. He is one of the world’s leading experts on palaeography and the history of writing.

The Medici. Story of a European Dinasty $12 by F. Cesati – publication year: 1999 – paperback. 150×210 mm. 144 pp. – 209 colour illustrations -This concise and brilliant book reads like a piece of journalism in the best sense of the term. It is an account of the more and less celebrated events that made the Medici into Italy’s most illustrious historic family. one that produced two popes. two Queens of France and such a multi-faceted and extraordinary figure as Lorenzo the Magnificent.With an entirely original and non-provincial approach. the author traces the dazzling rise and fall of this dynasty. from the first standard-bearer to the last Grand Duke. tirelessly bringing out its historical links with Florence. Italy and Europe. The many illustrations. clarified by ample captions. do not add up to a mere gallery of official portraits. but attempt to capture the individual figures in their more human and quotidian aspect.

Leonardo – Pictorial biography $18 M. Capati – April 2009 – paperback; cm 17×24. pp. 176 – 118 color illustrations -"There is no solution of continuity between the preparatory drawing for an altarpiece. the invention of a working tool. the project of a church or a fortress. Drew floor plans. measuring buildings. design weapons and mechanical appliances. are plagued with questions about the geology. hydraulics. optics. astronomy. mathematics. And the order of its chaotic codes found a formula expressive congenial to his personality. his perfect counterpoint to painting. "Engineer. scientist. philosopher. architect and painter. Leonardo da Vinci is the figure who best represents the ideal. the Renaissance and beyond. the universal genius. But. paradoxically. the versatility of his interests has come to play down to modern eyes the greatness of his art. often viewed only in the light of his extraordinary creative vitality.This essay retraces. from historical and biographical data. all the paintings of Leonardo. dall’apprendistato at Verrocchio’s workshop to formal perfection of the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa. and ending with the last works attributed to the master or his circle as the mysterious San Giovanni Battista / Bacchus in the Louvre. Massimiliano Capati was born in Viterbo in 1968. Graduate in modern history. and writer with many interests. He is the author. inter alia. Cantimori. Contini. Garin. Crisis of a culture idealistic (1997). The Master abnormal. Benedetto Croce and Italy in the Twentieth Century (2000). pandemonium. A reading of the Italian Novecento (2000). literary history of the 900 Italian (2002). He edited a collection of writings of Cesare Brandi entitled heritage threatened (2001).

The Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici $10 by F. Cardini – Preface by C. Acidini Luchinat – With an essay by L. Ricciardi – publication year: 2001 – paperback. 140×210 mm. 96 pp. – 110 colour illustrations -“The Chapel of the Magi in Palazzo Medici-Riccardi is one of those place in Italy – many. but not too many – in which history and art combine to bear witness to the past in a way that is absolutely exceptional. In this case we are dealing with a period in the past that has been extraordinarily celebrated. studied and loved. so as to achieve an almost mythic status: the age of the Renaissance in Medicean Florence. (…)Nearly ten years have gone by since the conclusion of the restoration and the publication of scholarly studies (both as part of the Laurentian celebrations and independently). and it is now highly opportune that the essence of these writings should have been distilled by Franco Cardini. the author of so many enlightening pages on the Florentine Middle Ages and Renaissance. as well as on the Chapel itself. His synthesis is completed by Lucia Ricciardi’s essay. full of useful information on the heraldic. symbolic and allegorical imagery related to the Medici family. (…)If it is true – as we believe – that every ancient testimony of human creativity bears the marks of its own uniqueness and irreplaceability. then it is all the more certain that the Chapel of the Magi is unique and irreplaceable. where art. faith. culture and power came together in an exceptional combination of circumstances. to give to the world a masterpiece of evocative capacity that is without equal. On the walls of the Chapel. among the precious furnishings that surround them. Benozzo’s paintings link the remote past of the Nativity and the Journey of the Magi with the contemporary world of 15th-century Florence. presenting us with a collective portrait – both fascinating and mysterious – of a dinasty that was primus inter pares in the society of its time: the Medici. at the peak of their influence and riches in the happy year 1456. from the aged Cosimo to his first-born son Piero and his grandsons Lorenzo and Giuliano. with their relatives and associates and distinguished guests. We who are admitted to these memories. still so vivid and expressive after more than five centuries. enjoy a journey back through time. one that thrills and enriches us.”(From the preface by C. Acidini Luchinat. Superintendent of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.)Franco Cardini. internationally known as a historian. is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Florence. He writes for many Italian and foreign journals. publishers and institutions.

Giant Inlay Alabaster Chessboard $870 Inlay Alabaster Chessboard : 2,4″”. Inlaid in Alabaster (true natural stone from Volterra in the hearth of Tuscany). Double drawer.

Persian – Inlay Alabaster Chessboard $672 Inlay Alabaster Chessboard : 1,7″” . Inlaid in Alabaster (true natural stone from Volterra in the hearth of Tuscany) . Internal storage box for pieces.

Extra Virgin Olive Oil Toscano Pasquini – Reggello – 0,50 ml $9 Extra Virgin Olive Oil Toscano Pasquini – Reggello – 0,50 mlThe Pasquini olive oil mill produces olive oil that is only pressed from hand picked olives in areas particularly vocated to olive cultivation. The excellent quality of the olive oil is guaranteed from the selection of the olives, from the almost immediate pressing of the olives in the mill, with extraction by mechanical cold press method which gives a high nutritive value.

Capitoline doves The fountain with four doves $6400 The original subject derived from antiquity the Capitoline Doves. Measurements is 5.51 x 6.69 inchs. with frame 9.25 x 10.43 inchs. 14 x 17 cm. with frame 23.5 x 26.5 cm.