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From Heaven to Arcadia (paperback) Written and with a new preface by Ingrid D. Rowland "Ingrid Rowland's amazing essays are over the top and down the other side. They pop, they sparkle, they inform, and they add up to a rich and vivid mosaic of Renaissance culture, its ancient sources, and its contemporary interpreters. Above all, they show us why deep scholarship and high style matter so much in this gray age of the world's history."—Anthony Grafton Price: $14.36 (20% off)

Opera and the Morbidity of Music By Joseph Kerman Joseph Kerman examines the ongoing vitality of the classical music tradition, and argues that the recent upsurge of interest in opera is proof of an extremely invigorating and healthy art form. Price: $22.36 (20% off)

Born Under Saturn By Margot and Rudolf Wittkower Introduction by Joseph Connors A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a "delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution." Price: $14.21 (25% off)

Dime-Store Alchemy By Charles Simic Full of unexpected riches, Dime-Store Alchemy is both an entrancing meditation on the nature of art and a perfect introduction to a major American artist by a peer. Price: $14.21 (25% off)

From Heaven to Arcadia By Ingrid D. Rowland In these essays, most of them originally published in The New York Review of Books, Ingrid Rowland explores topics in the art and culture of Renaissance Italy. Price: $19.96 (20% off)

Five Performing Arts Edited by Robert B. Silvers In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts. Price: $11.20 (20% off)

Miserable Miracle By Henri Michaux Translated from the French by Louise Varese Introduction by Octavio Paz In Miserable Miracle, the great French poet and artist Henri Michaux, a confirmed teetotaler, tells of his life-transforming first encounters with a powerful hallucinogenic drug. Price: $10.46 (25% off)

Mawrdew Czgowchwz By James McCourt Introduction by Wayne Koestenbaum James McCourt's entrancing send-up of the world of opera has been a cult classic for more than a quarter-century. This comic tribute to the love of art is a triumph of art and love by a contemporary American master. Price: $11.96 (25% off)

Renoir, My Father By Jean Renoir Translated from the French by Randolph and Dorothy Weaver Introduction by Robert L. Herbert In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Price: $14.21 (25% off)

Doing It: Five Performing Arts Edited by Robert B. Silvers In these essays, five of our most accomplished artists and critics explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts. Price: $15.96 (20% off)

The Unknown Masterpiece By Honoré de Balzac Translated from the French by Richard Howard Introduction by Arthur C. Danto The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Price: $10.50 (25% off)

Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte By Lorenzo Da Ponte Translated from the Italian by Elisabeth Abbott Preface by Charles Rosen "I shall speak of things . . . so singular in their oddity as in some manner to instruct, or at least entertain, without wearying." —Lorenzo da Ponte Price: $14.96 (25% off)