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I'm looking for some good books that exhaustively cover specific periods of art history. It doesn't necessarily have to be biography.

I've gone through loads of survey material and now I'm ready to start filling in the gaps.

Let's include music history as well, just for the hell of it.

>> No.5409163
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reverse-engineering of possible optical setups of vermeer, caravaggio and van dyck

similar book by philip steadman: vermeer's camera

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>>5409163
and cumulated in experimental proof: "tim's vermeer" documentary

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http://imslp.org/wiki/The_Interpretation_of_the_Music_of_the_17th_and_18th_Centuries_%28Dolmetsch,_Arnold%29

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axel roob - alchemy and mysticism

discusses occult symbology mostly found in medieval and baroque books

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alois riegl - stilfragen

history of ornaments

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I'm looking for a few things like this that provide a narrative of a particular important moment.

>> No.5409462

>>5409192
wow, sounds like the most boring book since ever

>> No.5409598

>>5409462
>everybody is interested in the same stuff mang

>> No.5409975

>>5409165
This was actually a really fun watch.