Dear Publishing Colleague, while FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR 2012 is approaching, I am glad to propose you: - our novelty list for 2013-14 - the newest issues for this Fall 2012 Please browse our lists of illustrated titles for both: - a general/ family public, as reference and popular science books and - on art, architecture and cultures JACA BOOK proposes illustrated titles, but also excellent children’s and young adults books and outstanding series, opera omnia and essays on human sciences, being specialist in history, medieval studies, philosophy, paleoanthropology, religions, Christian studies. MEETING May I propose you to meet on our stand 5.1 C-927 newly located on: Wednesday 10, Thursday 11 or Friday 12 October? Also Saturday will be possible. Please propose a suitable time. All best wishes yours Silvia Vassena silvia.vassena@jacabook.it International Rights and Co-editions Manager EDITORIALE JACA BOOK SPA - Via G. Frua, 11 - I-20146 Milano, Italy ph +39 02 4856151/ fax +39 02 48193361/ www.jacabook.it www.jacabook.it/art&illustrated

ART | Illustrated | Catalogue | Backlist: browse below EDITORIALE JACA BOOK Spa, Milano at the FRANKFURT BOOKFAIR 2012 new location BOOTH 5.1 C-927 silvia.vassena@jacabook.it www.jacabook.it/ricerca/main-art.htm

Jaca Book ART at Frankfurt 2012

- excellent international authors - lavish illustrations - licences & co-editions

NOVELTIES ART 2013

VENEZIA/VENICE: the urban scenery by M. Azzi Visentini

Venice from 1550 to all throughout 1797 resulting in the Venice admired today. Also finest photographs at a bird’ eye view. 24 x 32,5 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

UNIQUE RAVENNA. From Rome to Middleages by M. David

Roman, Barbarian and Byzantine art, building up unique Ravenna. 24 x 32,5 cm., 280 colour pp. - 2013

MATISSE. THE TOTAL WORK: la Chapelle de VENCE by Marie-Thérèse Pulvenis de Seligny

The first complete publication on Matisse’ final and total masterwork. 24 x 32,5 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

The splendour of the BAROQUE IN THE VATICAN (1600–1700) by X. Barrall, G. Wiedmann, N. Marcon, L. Simonato, S. Bolteux, A. Campitelli (Monumenta Vaticana Selecta)

The splendour of the Baroque in the Vatican after the Renaissance. Outside and inside spaces: the Square, St Peter, Apostolic Palace, Gardens. 24 x 32.5 cm., 352 colour pp. - 2013

CISTERCIAN ARTS ALONG TWELVE CENTURIES from the 12th cent. to the Contemporary age edited by TERRYL N. KINDER and ROBERTO CASSANELLI

More than 32 international authors, coordinated by Terryl N. Kinder and Roberto Cassanelli, contribute to this unique work on Cistercian arts, aiming to become the essential reference work for art historians, but also for historians of religious anthropology, the Church and medieval society. Covering artistic outcomes worldwide up until nowadays. 24 x 32.5 cm, 432 colour pp. - 2013

ATLAS OF CHINESE ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY edited by C. KONTLER

The first historical atlas of Chinese Art, from the origins until today. A French scholar leads the ‘red thread’ of history, while Chinese colleagues contribute on discoveries, artistical heritage, museums etc. A true up-to-date historical guide, with a compelling illustrated part. 24 x 31 cm, 304 colour pp. – 2013

THE ART OF LADAKH. Treasures of Buddhist art in the Indian Tibet by ERBERTO LO BUE and CHIARA BELLINI

The first exhaustive guide on the art of Ladakh. This work aims at recording the origin and development of Buddhist art in Ladakh through the monuments and inscriptions in the area and at the same time documenting its cultural history through its art works. With 200 colour plates, the volume is provided with maps and a list of all names in the text both in phonetic transcription and transliteration. This work is intended for a wide audience interested in Buddhist, Tibetan and Indian art and their cultural history. Furthermore, it may be used also by students and concerned travellers to Ladakh. 24 x 28 cm, 264 colour pp. - 2013

ROMANESQUE PAINTING by XAVIER BARRAL I ALTET

Xavier Barral i Altet, well-known all over Europe for his studies on Medieval art, presents hereby the koiné of an artistical event called Romanesque in 1800, constituting the highest expression of the creativity of XIth, XIIth until the XIIIth century. 24 x 32.5 cm, 240 colour pp. - 2013

FALL 2012

FALL 2012 – XVIth cent. ARTISTS’ JOURNEY TO ROME from Alonso Berruguete to Pieter Paul Rubens by NICOLE DACOS

During 1500, from all over Europe, from Flanders as from Spain, painters and sculptors came to Rome and were involved in monumental projects, in the Vatican Palace as well as in private palaces. One for all, Raphael’s workshop with Pedro Berruguete, Peter de Kempeneer and all the others artists. Thanks to the “journey to Rome” European art underwent a deep transformation. 25,5 x 28,5 cm, 264 colour pp. – 2012

FALL 2012 – THE ART OF THE GULF OF MEXICO by SARA LADRON DE GUEVARA

The so called ‘Gulf of Mexico’ covers a huge area looking at th Atlantic. Important center of the Olmec civilization, several cultures evolved in its territory and although different created a koiné: the Gulf area is now being considered one of the most fascinating archaeologic-artistical novelties of the whole Mesoamerica. 24 x 32.5 cm, 304 colour pp. – 2012

For further information kindly contact: silvia.vassena@jacabook.it or coeditions@jacabook.it Editoriale Jaca Book Spa Via Frua 11 - I-20141 Milano, Italy Ph.: +39.02.48.56.151 www.jacabook.it

Jaca Book ILLUSTRATED popular science, general public, families at Frankfurt 2012

NOVELTIES ILLUSTRATED 2013

The Great book on PARROTS. Intelligence in evolution by RENATO MASSA

The parrot is not a repeater, but a maker of linguistic expressions. A fascinating volume based on the animal whose intelligence is the most “advanced” in the class of birds. The frontiers of human peculiarity are shifting forward. 24 x 28 cm., 216 colour pp.- 2013

THE SAINTS. How to recognize Saints and Patron saints in art by GIOIA and NANDO LANZI

150 saints from Anna and Joachim Mary’s parents to Edith Stein. All described through their attributes and main features, as described in art and in popular images. 21.5 x 27 cm., 240 colour pp.- 2013

CONSTANTINE: EMPIRE and RELIGIONS. The Edict of Milano in 313 and its outcomes by M. Guidetti

An adventurous great emperor who built Europe and the century, 300 a.C, seeing the shifting from Late Antiquity to the Middleages. 21.5 x 27 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY THROUGHOUT CHARITY: AN ATLAS by J. M. Laboa

21.5 x 27 cm., 240 colour pp. - 2013

AN ATLAS OF MUSIC IN PRE-HISTORY AND FIRST CIVILIZATIONS edited by VERA MINAZZI

Leading international scholars in Anthropology and Musicology write several contributions for the first survey on the role of music and dance in pre-history and in different archaic cultures, form China to the Mediterranean and the Americas 24 x 31 cm, 280 colour pp. – 2013

FALL 2012

FALL 2012 - ORIGINS OF RELIGIONS by JULIEN RIES

Founder and conceiver of the religious anthropology, in this illustrated volume Ries represents a fascinating topic: when Homo Religiosus is born how he expressed himself in pre-history, when religions first appeared and how the great religions of humankind started. Archeology, pre-history, history of religions and anthropology in a brilliant synthesis. 21.5 x 27 cm, 264 colour pp. - 2012

FALL 2012 - HISTORICAL ATLAS OF LITURGY by KEITH F. PECKLERS, S.J.

An historical atlas on liturgy from the beginning of Christianity to nowadays. The liturgical history has always been connected to concrete places of cult and of artistic expression. In original English. 24 x 31 cm, 280 colour pp. – 2012

For further information kindly contact: silvia.vassena@jacabook.it or coeditions@jacabook.it Editoriale Jaca Book Spa Via Frua 11 - I-20141 Milano, Italy Ph.: +39.02.48.56.151 www.jacabook.it