📚 Suggested Books by WVT Guides and Tutors
Explore our curated selection of books recommended by our expert guides and related to the topics covered in our events.
Whether you’re passionate about history, art, architecture, or ancient civilizations, these titles offer great opportunities for further discovery and inspiration.
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Architecture, Neuroscience, Theatre
| Author | Title | 🇬🇧 Amazon UK | 🇺🇸 Amazon US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Pizzato | Mapping Global Theatre Histories (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | European Churches and Chinese Temples as Neuro-Theatrical Sites (Cognition, Poetics, and the Arts) (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain: The Evolution of Animal-Humans from Prehistoric Cave Art to Modern Movies (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Outer Space Speaks: (a neuro-sci-fi horror farce) (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Death in American Texts and Performances: Corpses, Ghosts, and the Reanimated Dead (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Inner Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind’s Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
| Mark Pizzato | Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (Suggested by: Mark) | 🇬🇧🛒 | 🇺🇸🛒 |
Medieval Art
| Author | Title | 🇬🇧 Amazon UK | 🇺🇸 Amazon US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scot McKendrick, Kathleen Doyle | The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts from the Medieval World (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Michael Kerrigan | Illuminated Manuscripts Masterpieces of Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Eleanor Jackson | The Lindisfarne Gospels (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Veronica Sekules | Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art) (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Lawrence Nees | Early Medieval Art (Oxford History of Art) (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Roger Stalley | Early Medieval Architecture (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Robin Cormack | Byzantine Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Nicola Coldstream | Medieval Architecture (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Wendy A. Stein | How to Read Medieval Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Thomas Harper King, Abacus Press, Ian Konrad Johnson | The Study-book of Mediæval Architecture and Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Daniel V. Thompson | The Materials and Techniques of Medieval Painting (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Marc Morris | Castle: A History of the Buildings that Shaped Medieval Britain (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | — |
| Sonja Ulrike Klug | Passion for Compasses (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Paul Binski | Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| John A.H. Lewis | The Architecture of Medieval Churches (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Robert G. Ousterhout | Eastern Medieval Architecture (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Professor Warwick Rodwell | The Archaeology of Churches (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | — |
| Jonathan M. Bloom | Architecture of the Islamic West (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| George Zarnecki, Janet Holt, Tristram Holland | English Romanesque Art 1066–1200 (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl | A Journey Through Romanesque Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Francoise Henry | Irish Art in the Romanesque Period (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | — |
| Otto Georg Von Simson | The Gothic Cathedral (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | — |
| William Morgan | Academia: Collegiate Gothic Architecture (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Gunther Binding, Henri Stierlin, Uwe Dettmar | High Gothic (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Christopher Wilson | The Gothic Cathedral 1130–1530 (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Uta Hasekamp | Gothic 1200–1500 (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Paul Binski | Gothic Sculpture (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
| Stephan Kemperdick, Lothar Lambacher, Jan Friedrich, Michael Roth | Late Gothic: The Birth of Modernity (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | — |
| Victoria Charles, Klaus H. Carl | Gothic Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 | 🇺🇸 |
Gustav Klimt
| Author | Title | 🇬🇧 Amazon UK | 🇺🇸 Amazon US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Rogoyska, Patrick Bade | Gustav Klimt (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Janis Staggs | Klimt Landscapes (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Stephan Koja | Gustav Klimt: Landscapes (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Tobias G Natter | Gustav Klimt: The Interiors (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Susie Hodge | Gustav Klimt Masterpieces of Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Stella Rollig | Gustav Klimt – Pigment & Pixel (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Anne-Marie O’Connor | The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Bloch-Bauer (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Wilfried Rogasch | Gustav Klimt: The Great Masters of Art (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Michael Kerrigan | Gustav Klimt: Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secessionists (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Gilles Néret | Klimt (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Tobias G. Natter | Gustav Klimt. The Complete Paintings (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
Leonardo da Vinci
| Author | Title | 🇬🇧 Amazon UK | 🇺🇸 Amazon US |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scott Nethersole, Per Rumberg | Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael: Florence, c. 1504 (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| François Quiviger | Leonardo da Vinci: Self, Art and Nature (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Kenneth Clark, Martin Kemp | Leonardo Da Vinci (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Luke Syson et al. | Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Martin Clayton | Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Martin Kemp | Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Frank Zöllner | Leonardo. The Complete Paintings. 45th Ed (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Alessandro Vezzosi | Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Paintings in Detail (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| H. Anna Suh, Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo’s Notebooks: Writing and Art of the Great Master (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Raphaël Mouterde | The Geometry of the Last Supper: Hidden Composition and its Symbolism (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Leonardo Da Vinci: The Complete Works (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Donald Sassoon | Mona Lisa: The History of the World’s Most Famous Painting (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Martin Kemp, Giuseppe Pallanti | Mona Lisa: The People and the Painting (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
| Noah Charney, Steve Berry | The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story (Suggested by: Lillian) | 🇬🇧 🛒 | 🇺🇸 🛒 |
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