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| FORTHCOMING TITLES & RECENT RELEASES Before América
Edited by Rodrigo Gutiérrez Viñuales, Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Toledo Gutiérrez. After Europeans christened two sweeping continents with hundreds of individual cultures and traditions “America,” the visual culture of the “New World” became filled with reinterpretations of ancient civilizations from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. Before >>more
Fundación Juan March
ISBN 9788470756863
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 632 pgs / 800 color / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2024 In stock
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|  Caravaggio: The Ecce Homo Unveiled
Edited with text by Keith Christiansen, Gianni Papi, Giuseppe Porzio, Maria Cristina Terzaghi. In 2021, a painting was offered at a Madrid auction houses at a starting price of 1,500 euros. Almost immediately and almost unanimously, this Ecce Homo was attributed by experts to Caravaggio (1571–1610), an unprecedented >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254631515
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 176 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 07/09/2024 In stock
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|  Da Vinci
Text by Giorgio Vasari, Adela Montes. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), the archetype of the “Renaissance man,” left behind only a few paintings, but each one confirms his place as one of the most respected and admired painters in the Western tradition. >>more
POLÍGRAFA
ISBN 9788434313972
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 72 pgs / 62 color.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Entangled Pasts, 1768–Now
Text by Dorothy Price, Esther Chadwick, Cora Gilroy-Ware, Sarah Lea, Alayo Akinkugbe, Rose Thompson. Informed by ongoing research, this handsome publication features the work of artists connected with the Royal Academy in an exploration of migration, exchange, artistic traditions, identity and belonging. Contemporary and historical works are brought together >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520992
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 05/07/2024 Out of stock
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|  In a single year at the turn of the 16th century, three titans of the Italian Renaissance briefly crossed paths while competing for the attention of the most powerful patrons in Republican Florence. In 1504, >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781915815101
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Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 01/14/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Modern Paris 1840–1940
Edited by Catherine Grenier, Caroline Hancock. Text by Claire Bernardi, Roger Benjamin, Sophie Krebs, Cécile Bargues. Perhaps no hundred-year period and place in art history has the appeal, allure and romance of Paris between 1840 and 1940. Modern Paris: 1840–1940 presents the breathtaking scope of this rich period with a generous >>more
Skira/Qatar Museums
ISBN 9788857245522
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2024 Awaiting stock
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|  Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
Edited with text by Jan Marsh. Text by Peter Funnell, Alison Smith, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nun. When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood exhibited their first works in 1849, it heralded a revolution in British art. Think of the images created by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others in >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855147928
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2024 In stock
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|  Recycling Beauty
Edited with text by Salvatore Settis, Anna Anguissola, Denise La Monica. Foreword by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli. Text by Giulia Ammannati, Carmine Ampolo, Rosanna Barbera, Pia Brancaccio, Roberto Cara, et al. Fondazione Prada’s exhibition Recycling Beauty, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is an unprecedented study of the reuse of Greek and Roman antiquities within post-antiquity—the Middle Ages to the Baroque. While themes such as seriality, reuse and >>more
Fondazione Prada
ISBN 9788887029833
US $90.00 CAN $126.00 SDNR30
Pbk, 8 x 11 in. / 560 pgs / 264 color / 92 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  Six Lives
Edited with text by Charlotte Bolland. Text by Suzannah Lipscomb, Alden Gregory, Benjamin Hebbert, Brett Dolman, Nicola Clark, Nicola Tallis, Valerie Schutte. The queen consorts of Henry VIII have come to be encapsulated in a succinct six-word rhyme: “Divorced, beheaded, died / Divorced, beheaded, survived.” But what were their real stories and legacies? Six Lives reveals the >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145290
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2024 In stock
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|  Sorolla
Introduction by José María Faerna. Celebrated as a painter of light and hailed as a “modern of the moderns” by famed collector Duncan Phillips, Joaquín Sorolla (1863–1923) was one of the most successful artists of his time. This bright and >>more
POLÍGRAFA
ISBN 9788434313835
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 72 pgs / 64 color.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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|  A woman gazing squarely at the artist, arm akimbo; a lush tablescape with oysters and sweets; a sweeping view of Haarlem under a grand sky; and an intimate tavern scene. These are just a few >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468959
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 07/16/2024 In stock
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|  Vermeer
Introduction by Jean-Luc Chalumeau. This fully illustrated volume collects the complete works of Johannes Vermeer (1632–75). Published in Polígrafa's affordable Old Masters series, it captures the deep blues and transparent yellows of the 35 canvasses that comprise the known >>more
POLÍGRAFA
ISBN 9788434313958
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10.5 in. / 72 pgs / 64 color.
Pub Date: 06/24/2025 Awaiting stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST  1600–1700
Edited with text by Gregor J.M. Weber. The 17th century was a period of unprecedented blossoming in Dutch art and culture. Rembrandt developed his innovative techniques and Vermeer captured life in silent tableaus while trade flourished and supplied the Netherlands with goods >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789492660022
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 432 pgs / 275 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  1700–1800
Edited by Reinier Baarsen. The 18th century is the most international, most European century in Dutch art history. This book, designed by Irma Boom, with 100 of the most beautiful and surprising objects from the Rijksmuseum's collection of 18th-century >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462084995
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Hbk, 7.75 x 9.75 in. / 272 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2020 In stock
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|  1800–1900
Text by Jenny Reynaerts, Reinier Baarsen, Dirk Jan Biemond, Margreet Boomkamp, Duncan Bull, Femke Diercks, Eva Geudeker, Martine Gosselink, Gijs van der Ham, Jan de Hond, Teio Meedendorp, Hanna Melse, Bianca du Mortier, Robert-Jan te Rijdt, Eveline Sint Nicolaas, Renske Suijver, Aukje Vergeest. 1800–1900 tells the eventful story of the 19th century in the Netherlands—from the Napoleonic Wars and the Industrial Revolution to Belgian independence and colonial politics in the Dutch East Indies—through the Rijksmuseum’s 100 most important >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462084001
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 292 pgs / 237 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock
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|  A Usable Past: American Folk Art at the Colby College Museum of Art
Edited with introduction by Lauren Lessing. Foreword by Sharon Corwin. Text by Seth A. Thayer, Jr., Elizabeth Finch, Tanya Sheehan. A Usable Past brings together paintings, sculptures and works on paper by self-trained artists working in the eastern part of the US during the 19th century. Produced and originally circulated outside the sphere of fine >>more
Colby College Museum of Art
ISBN 9780972848435
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 163 pgs / 122 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Through more than 200 works, the representation and pictorial meaning of the window in Western art. Through more than 200 works from private collections and museums from all over the world, this book seeks to >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857216973
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Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / 311 color.
Pub Date: 09/17/2013 In stock
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|  Abstract Expressionism at The Museum of Modern Art
Text by Ann Temkin. More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term "Abstract Expressionism" to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707933
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Hbk, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 124 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Out of stock
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|  Aby Warburg: Bilderatlas Mnemosyne
Text by Roberto Ohrt, Axel Heil, Bernd Scherer, Bill Sherman, Claudia Wedepohl. From 1925 until his death in 1929, the great German art theorist and cultural scholar Aby Warburg worked on an ambitious, unprecedented project he called the Mnemosyne Atlas: a series of 63 large themed panels, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746939
US $230.00 CAN $325.00 FLAT40
Clth, 17 x 25 in. / 176 pgs / 63 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2020 Out of stock
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|  Spanning the entirety of Alphonse Mucha’s prolific career, this handsome, affordable and concise overview examines the beloved artist’s oeuvre—from posters, jewelry, interior decoration, theater and product design to painting, book illustration, sculpture and photography—across six >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857232430
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 248 pgs / 256 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock
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|  Commissioned by Glasgow publisher Blackie & Son, it contains a short description and a full-page grisaille drawing for each animal, beginning with A for armadillo and ending with Z for zebra, with vignettes accompanying each >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970466
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Hbk, 7.25 x 9.25 in. / 112 pgs / 53 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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|  Anatomical Waxes
Edited by Mario Mainetti. Introduction by Miuccia Prada, Marco Benvenuti, David Cronenberg. Text by Roberta Ballestriero, Paul Brown, Riccardo Venturi, Sandra Zecchi, et al. Conversations with Claudia Corti, Mario Mainetti, Eva Sangiorgi, David Cronenberg. This book was published for an exhibition at Fondazione Prada, where the models of La Specola Museum (part of the Museum of Natural History in Florence) were exhibited alongside a newly conceived short film by >>more
Fondazione Prada
ISBN 9788887029840
US $80.00 CAN $116.00 SDNR30
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 556 pgs / 130 color / 65 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/27/2024 In stock
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|  The art of the Pollaiolo brothers, protagonists of the 15th-century artistic scene, in a volume accompanying the exhibition that gathers for the first time the four Portrait of a Lady paintings from Milan, Berlin, New >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857224749
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Hbk, 12 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/10/2015 In stock
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|  Apelles
By Paolo Moreno. An original book devoted the extraordinary mosaic The Battle of Alexander, rich of close-up details and with the sensational new attribution to the gratest painter of antiquity: Apelles. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788881188642
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Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 136 pgs / 84 illustrations.
Pub Date: 01/01/2002 In stock
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|  Exquisitely illustrated with new photography, this stunning book represents the first comprehensive study of LACMA’s notable holdings of Spanish American art. Following the arrival of the Spaniards in the Americas in the 15th century, the >>more
DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781636810201
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Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 392 pgs / 317 color.
Pub Date: 06/28/2022 Out of stock
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|  Art of the Twentieth Century
By Loredana Parmesani. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788881186884
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Hbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 130 illustrations.
Pub Date: 04/01/2000 In stock
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|  This monumental art reference series will offer a complete and up-to-date survey of the major movements and art phenomena of the 1900s and the first years of the new millennium in an original interdisciplinary analysis >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788876246043
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 456 pgs / 379 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2006 In stock
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|  Art of the Twentieth Century, Volume II
By Valerio Terraroli. Contributions by Gabriella Belli, Carlo Bertelli, Germano Celant, Ester Coen, Ida Gianelli. This second volume in the Art of the Twentieth Century series analyzes and presents the diverse world of artistic production between the two world wars, beginning with the environment that took shape in the immediate >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788876248047
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 448 pgs / 400 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/16/2007 In stock
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|  Balenciaga and Spanish Painting
Text by Eloy Martínez de la Pera, Pamela Golbin, Estrella de Diego, Hamish Bowles, Juan Gutiérrez. This book surveys the significant influence that the painters of the so-called Spanish School had on the creative process of Cristóbal Balenciaga, the great master couturier of the 20th century.
Balenciaga was born in the >>more
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza
ISBN 9788417173302
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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 268 pgs / 155 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 Out of stock
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|  Bellotto was Canaletto’s nephew and assistant, and an adept pupil—he picked up his uncle’s teachings so well that he sometimes signed his work as “Bellotto de Canaletto” and traded on the illustrious name, particularly after >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836635566
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Hbk, 9.5 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Houston-based art collector and cofounder of the Medici Archive Project, has built America's largest private collection of Florentine baroque paintings from the 17th to 18th centuries. The paintings, drawings, textiles, >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836641284
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Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|  Anatomical oddities abound in medieval artworks: headless saints who walk around seemingly unperturbed by such injuries, distinctly yonic wounds and a depiction of Jesus being crushed like a grape are only a few examples of >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462085992
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/16/2021 Out of stock
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|  Bramantino
Edited by Mauro Natale. This veritable reference work on Bramantino emphasizes the artist’s pivotal role in Northern Italy’s Renaissance, where he was the only artist able to stand up to Leonardo’s inventions. The volume traces the artist’s career starting >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857223698
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Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 400 pgs / 259 color.
Pub Date: 12/15/2015 In stock
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|  This volume presents a substantial overview of the life and works of the great Venetian painter. More than 70 works by Canaletto, including paintings and drawings from both public and private collections, are brought together >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836639328
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Hbk, 10 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 Out of stock
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|  Often regarded as the greatest of the Neoclassical artists, Antonio Canova (1757–1822) combined Greek and Roman sculptural idioms with a nascent Romanticism to forge a new vocabulary for Neoclassicism. Even within in his own lifetime, >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630587
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 03/14/2023 In stock
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|  Caravaggio
Edited by Claudio Strinati. Four hundred years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the world’s most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of twenty-five of his works. How is it possible that an artist who lived >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857204581
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 247 pgs / 74 illustrations.
Pub Date: 09/21/2010 In stock
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|  Dramatic shifts from foreboding dark to probing light, with minimal gradation in between; a realism that exposes all the flaws and folds of human flesh, eschewing Michelangelo’s idealized bodies; a surgical explication of almost unbearably >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836637133
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 216 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Carpaccio
By Stefania Mason. A breath-taking view of Vittore Carpaccio’s canvases filled with the legendary lives of saints and amazing narrative details by the best storytelling talent of the Venetian Renaissance. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788881187379
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2000 In stock
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|  Class Distinctions
Text by Ronni Baer, Henk van Nierop, Herman Roodenburg, Eric Jan Sluijter, Marieke de Winkel, Sanny de Zoete. The Dutch Republic in the 17th century was home to one of the greatest flowerings of painting in the history of Western art. Freed from the constraints of royal and church patronage, artists created a >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468300
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 344 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 Out of stock
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|  Classical Art: MFA HIghlights
Edited by Christine Kondoleon. Text by Richard Grossmann, Jennifer L. Heuser. Ancient Greek, Roman and Etruscan civilizations come to life in this illustrated selection of 100 highlights from the famous collections of classical art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. An introduction by curator Christine >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467280
US $22.50 CAN $31.00 TRADE
Paperback, 7 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 130 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/16/2008 In stock
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|  In 1955 MoMA became the first US museum to acquire one of Monet’s paintings of his garden in Giverny. This volume by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, recounts the history >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450431
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 56 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 Out of stock
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|  Claude Monet: Water Lilies
Text by Ann Temkin, Nora Lawrence. Claude Monet (1840-1926) devoted the last 25 years of his career to paintings of the Japanese-style pond and gardens of his house in Giverny, France. Two of these luminous panels--"Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707742
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Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 In stock
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|  Many people know that Impressionism initially encountered severe censure from the art establishment. Fewer people, however, know the pivotal role that a group of collectors played in defending and championing the burgeoning movement. These select >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836647453
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 In stock
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|  Compostela and Europe
Contributions by Alison Stones, John Williams, Quitterie Cazes, Klaus Herbers. A fascinating journey through the history of one of Europe’s benchmark Romanesque cities. The international nature of Santiago de Compostela cannot be understood without the figure of Diego Gelmirez (1070–1140). His long life was the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857204932
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Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 432 pgs / 285 illustrations.
Pub Date: 11/02/2010 In stock
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|  Cézanne at the Whitworth
Text by Richard Thomson, Christopher Lloyd, Elizabeth Cowling, Rosalind McKever, Colin Wiggins, Edward Wouk, Richard Shone. Interview with Karsten Schubert by Yuval Etgar. In honor of the generous bequest by the late Karsten Schubert, founder of Ridinghouse, to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, this luxurious book, featuring a tipped-on cover drawing, focuses exclusively on Paul Cézanne’s (1839–1906) >>more
Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932562
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Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 In stock
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|  Dining with the Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting
Edited with text by Linda Komaroff. Foreword by Michael Govan. Text by Sinem Arcak Casale, Touraj Daryaee, Ashley Dimmig, Maryam Ekhtiar, Farshid Emami, Jessica Hallett, Katherine E. Kasdorf, Deborah L. Krohn, Zoe S. Kwok, Paulina B. Lewicka, Daniel Newman, Charles Perry, Helen Pfeifer, Amir Hosein Pourjavady, Hedda Reindl-Kiel, et al. This catalog represents the first occasion that the burgeoning knowledge of food culture in this period has been employed to inform our understanding of Islamic art. Dining with the Sultan offers a pan-Islamic reach, spanning >>more
DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781636810881
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 376 pgs / 310 color.
Pub Date: 12/12/2023 In stock
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|  Divisionism
Text by Francine Dawans, Christophe Flubacher, Cäsar Menz, Annie-Paule Quinsac, Daniel Salzmann. The representatives of Neo-Impressionism permanently liberated paint from the mixing of colors on the palette, as well as from its traditional method of application, just as it had been revived through the atmospheric illusionism of >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775735797
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 Out of stock
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|  Donatello: In Tuscany
Edited with text by Francesco Caglioti. Text by Laura Cavazzini, Gabriele Fattorini, Aldo Galli, Neville Rowley. Donatello (c. 1386–1466) is one of Western art’s greatest sculptors, the brilliant exponent of a new simplified, elegant form in Renaissance art. Many of Donatello’s most revered masterpieces remain in Tuscany—the region in which he >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630471
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 In stock
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|  Dutch Art in a Global Age
Edited with text by Christopher D.M. Atkins. Text by Pepijn Brandon, Simona Di Nepi, Stephanie S. Dickey, Michele L. Frederick, Hanneke Grootenboer, Katherine Harper, Courtney Leigh Harris, Mary E. Hicks, Anna C. Knaap, Rhona MacBeth, Katrina Newbury, Christine Storti, Gerri Strickler, Claudia Swan, Jeroen van der Vliet, Benjamin Weiss. The 17th century has long been considered a "golden age" for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power. Nourished by an innovative stock market and burgeoning global trade network, >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468911
US $60.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 135 color.
Pub Date: 10/10/2023 In stock
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|  Egypt
Edited by Paola Giovetti, Daniela Picchi. The Egyptian collections of two major European museums. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857230153
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Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 592 pgs / 531 illustrations.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 In stock
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|  In the late 16th and early 17th centuries there was one art form in which English artists excelled above all their continental European counterparts: the painting of miniatures. This fascinating book explores the genre with >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855147027
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Hbk, 7 x 10.5 in. / 232 pgs / 163 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 Out of stock
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|  Europe in the Renaissance: Metamorphoses 1400–1600
Text by Bernard Aikema, Peter Burke, et al. The Renaissance experienced some of the most important advances in human history: the invention of the printing press using movable letters, the West's discovery of a continent and the formulation of a new view of >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740739
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Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 336 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Out of stock
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|  European Decorative Arts
Text by Thomas Michie. The world-renowned collection of European decorative arts at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is full of sumptuous surprises. The objects range from an opulent automaton to a richly wrought crozier, and vary in scale >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468225
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 126 color.
Pub Date: 01/27/2015 In stock
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|  European Painting and Sculpture After 1800
Text by Emily A. Beeny, Marietta Cambareri. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, houses an internationally renowned collection of modern European painting and sculpture, including such masterpieces as Renoir’s "Dance at Bougival," Gauguin’s "Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468409
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 07/26/2016 In stock
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|  Over the course of some 3,000 years, Ancient Egypt fostered a vibrant and dynamic portrait tradition that encompassed innovations, revivals and renaissances. From imposing colossal statues of kings to glamorous sculptures of queens and divinities, >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468898
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Hbk, 7 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 12/20/2022 In stock
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|  Flowers in the Louvre
By Beatrice Vingtrinier. Foreword by Michel Lis. Featuring floral-inspired works from the Louvre collection, this book offers a novel perspective on the world’s most visited museum. From the noble iris to the humble bloom-filled meadow, flowers are a natural subject for artists, >>more
Skira Paris
ISBN 9782081228207
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Hbk, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2010 In stock
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|  Food in the Louvre
By Yves Pinard. Foreword by Paul Bocuse. With a foreword by Michelin three-star chef Paul Bocuse, this beautifully illustrated volume celebrates culinary-themed artwork with insightful text and recipes by the Grand Louvre’s chef Yves Pinard. A vital element of daily life and >>more
Skira Paris
ISBN 9782081228214
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 01/12/2010 In stock
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|  Francisco de Goya: Exhibition Guide
Edited with text by Martin Schwander. Text by Andreas Beyer, Helmut C. Jacobs, Ioana Jimborean, José Manuel Matilla, Gudrun Maurer, Manuela B. Mena Marqués, Colm Tóibín, Bodo Vischer. Francisco de Goya was one of the last great court artists and a significant trailblazer for modern art—and now, the Fondation Beyeler, in collaboration with the Museo Nacional del Prado, has mounted one of the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746571
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Hbk, 10.75 x 12.25 in. / 400 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock
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|  Frescos
By Antonio Foscari. During the Renaissance, the contest to decide the order of rank among the fine arts, architecture, painting, and sculpture was an issue that also occupied the famous architect Andrea Palladio. He was convinced that architecture >>more
Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037783702
US $46.00 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Hbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 298 pgs / 270 images.
Pub Date: 11/25/2013 In stock
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|  From Donatello to Alessandro Vittoria: 1450–1600
Edited with text by Toto Bergamo Rossi, Claudia Cremonini. Text by Bruce Boucer, Philippe Malgouyres, Luca Siracusano, Jeremy Warren. This volume analyzes key moments in the history of sculpture in Venice from the early Renaissance to late Mannerism (mid-15th to early 17th century), highlighting the complexity and richness of the stylistic and iconographic features >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630389
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Pbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 03/14/2023 Out of stock
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|  From the Schuylkill to the Hudson delves into the important and under-explored tradition of landscape painting in Philadelphia from the early American Republic (1775) to the Centennial International Exposition (1876), and how that corpus shaped >>more
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
ISBN 9780943836454
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Hbk, 10 x 8.75 in. / 80 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock
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|  Giandomenico Tiepolo and His Fantasy Portraits
This volume comprises some 20 works by Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727--1804), brother of Lorenzo Tiepolo and son of the legendary Giambattista Tiepolo. Giambattista arrived in Madrid in 1762 at the invitation of King Charles III, with >>more
Fundación Juan March
ISBN 9788461728541
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10.75 x 12.75 in. / 156 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/28/2015 In stock
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|  An emblematic master painter of the Quattrocento, Giovanni Bellini remained active beyond that period and into the era now known as the High Renaissance. While his colleagues died or faded from view, Bellini, in the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857239965
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 400 pgs / 368 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock
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|  Guido Reni and Rome: Nature and Devotion
Edited with text by Francesca Cappelletti. Text by Daniele Benati, Anna Coliva, Francesco Gatta, Raffaella Morselli, et al. The impetus behind this volume was the Italian state’s 2020 acquisition of the painting Landscape with a Country Dance (1601–02) by the Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni (1575–1642). The artwork’s return to its native land >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630464
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 09/20/2022 In stock
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|  The Italian Baroque painter Guido Reni (1575–1642) arrived in Rome in the early 17th century, where he painted extensively, forging a vision of the city that was uniquely his own. This volume introduces readers to >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630563
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 03/14/2023 In stock
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|  Gustave Courbet: Art to Read Series
Contributions by Ulf Küster. Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) is considered to have introduced the practice of socially engaged painting, and he is viewed as one of the most important representatives of Realism. The direct and honest depictions of Realist painters >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775738774
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Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2015 In stock
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|  Heads and Tails, Tales and Bodies
Preface by Marina Loshak, Olivier Descotes, Manos G. Dimitrakopoulos. Text by Christos G. Doumas, Chris Carey, et al. Heads and Tails looks at a selection of archaeological artifacts that have only very rarely been presented to a broader audience, presenting an impressive gallery of masterpieces of miniature sculpture, such as coins, medals, plaques >>more
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
ISBN 9789492321312
US $80.00 CAN $107.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 406 pgs / 120 color / 250 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 In stock
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|  High Society
Edited by Jonathan Bikker. The Rijksmuseum is celebrating the completed restoration of Rembrandt's magnificent portraits of the exuberantly dressed Marten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit with a comprehensive publication (and accompanying exhibition) dedicated to life-size portraiture. Over the centuries, powerful >>more
nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789462084261
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 136 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 06/12/2018 Out of stock
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|  Before Hilma af Klint and Emma Kunz, there was Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179)—the German abbess, composer, writer, artist and mystic, who until now was probably best known, in the English-speaking world, for her music and >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857240152
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 224 pgs / 136 color.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Out of stock
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|  Hiroshige: The Master of Nature
Edited with text by Gian Carlo Calza. Text by Shawn Eichman, Rossella Menegazzo. This substantial volume offers a broad panorama of the hugely popular oeuvre of Hiroshige (1797–1858), the great artist of the Japanese popular school of printmaking who transmuted everyday landscapes into intimate, lyrical scenes. The text >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857242873
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 244 color / 203 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 Out of stock
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|  From Hogarth to Reynolds, from Gainsborough to Turner, the great protagonists of English painting between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This is the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary development of British painting during the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857222714
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 288 pgs / 180 illustrations.
Pub Date: 09/16/2014 In stock
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|  Hokusai: The Master's Legacy
Edited with text by Rossella Menegazzo. Text by Donatella Failla. The undisputed master of ukiyo-e, Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is celebrated not only for his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji but also for his great versatility expressed in his treatment of all types of subjects: >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857236940
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 350 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 In stock
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|  The best known of all Japanese artists, Katsushika Hokusai was active as a painter, book illustrator and print designer throughout his 90-year lifespan. Yet his most famous works—the color woodblock landscape prints issued in series—were >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468669
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Hbk, 10 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock
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|  This authoritative volume is the most complete publication to date on the first phase of the Caravaggesque movement. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788884912824
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Hbk, 10.5 x 13.75 in. / 864 pgs / 700 illustrations.
Pub Date: 09/07/2010 In stock
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|  Idols & Rivals
Edited by Gudrun Swoboda. Text by Marco Campigli, Wencke Deiters, Jana Graul, Hana Gründler, Henrieke Haug, Fabian Jonietz, Karin Leonhard, Wolf-Dietrich Löhr, et al. This volume probes the relationship between art and competition from antiquity to the early modern era. In Western antiquity, practices of imitation and competition were thought to enhance creativity; in the Renaissance, Leonardo believed that >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775753999
US $62.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 296 pgs / 244 color.
Pub Date: 01/03/2023 In stock
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|  Il Sassoferrato: Devout Beauty
Edited with text by François Macé de Lèpinay. Text by Stefano Papetti, Giampiero Donnini, Massimo Pulini, Andrei Bliznukov, Patrizia Rosazza-Ferraris. Il Sassoferrato: Devout Beauty reconstructs, for the first time, the creative process of Giovan Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato (1609–85), from drawing to finished work. Living in Baroque-era Rome but keeping his distance from contemporary >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836637577
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 302 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  John Ruskin visited Venice numerous times over the course of his life, starting in 1835, and after long stays in the city he published his three-volume masterpiece The Stones of Venice—a gorgeous paean to the >>more
Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254631225
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Hbk, 10.5 x 9 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 06/04/2024 In stock
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|  In the Age of Giorgione
Contributions by Simone Facchinetti. Venice in the early 16th century was Europe s undisputed capital of culture: home to some of the finest artists of the Italian Renaissance whose importance stretched far beyond the region. The first great painter >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781910350263
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Cloth, 9.75 x 11 in. / 165 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/03/2016 In stock
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|  In the Name of the Image
Edited with text by Axel Langer. Text by Doris Behrens Abouseif, Dieter Blume, Christophe Erismann, Finbarr Barry Flood, Beate Fricke, Christiane Gruber, Tobias Heinzelmann, Ahmad Milad Karimi, Hans Georg Majer, René Schurte, Daniel Spanke, Friedericke Weis. The overlap between art and religion represents one of humanity’s most fundamental driving forces: a desire to interpret the world around us and to communicate that interpretation to others. The symbolism used in a specific >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747332
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 504 pgs / 214 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 Out of stock
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|  Ink, Silk & Gold
Text by Laura Weinstein, Emine Fetvaci, Marcus Fraser, Jennifer Pruitt, Rocco Rante, Yael Rice. Ink, Silk & Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 works of art drawn from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Works in a range >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468065
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  Jacques Jordaens: 1593–1678
Text by Irene Schaudies, Joost Vander Auwera, Lucy Davis, et al. Among the three most renowned Flemish Baroque painters—Rubens, Van Dyck and Joardens—Jacques Joardens (1593–1678), also known as Jacob Jordaens, is undoubtedly the least studied. Yet the image of Joardens as a poor man’s Rubens obscures >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836627820
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Joaquín Sorolla
Edited by Blanca Pons-Sorolla. Containing over 300 reproductions of his most important works, Joaquín Sorolla is an essential survey on this ever-popular painter. It includes an in-depth essay by Blanca Pons-Sorolla, as well as an illustrated chronology.
Starting out as >>more
POLÍGRAFA
ISBN 9788434312258
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Hbk, 10 x 12.5 in. / 352 pgs / 308 color.
Pub Date: 03/10/2020 Out of stock
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|  John Singer Sargent: Murals in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Text by Carol Troyen, Pamela Hatchfield, Lydia Vagts. Born in Italy, trained in Paris and a resident of London, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) became Boston’s favorite painter in the 1880s. His commissions from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to decorate its new >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468096
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 88 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock
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|  John Singer Sargent: Watercolors
By Erica E. Hirshler, Teresa A. Carbone. Text by Richard Ormond, Annette Manick. John Singer Sargent’s approach to watercolor was unconventional. Going beyond turn-of-the-century standards for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes, his confidently bold, dense strokes and loosely defined forms startled critics and fellow >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Brooklyn Museum
ISBN 9780878467914
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Hbk, 12 x 10 in. / 252 pgs / 175 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 In stock
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|  Soon after moving to Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) dedicated himself to chronicling a new kind of Parisian life. He was a painter who captured the exhilarating society of le demi-monde and its establishments: racecourses, >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836640232
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 110 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|  Late Gothic
Text by Julien Chapuis, Stephan Kemperdick, Lothar Lambacher, Jan Friedrich Richter, Michael Roth, et al. From roughly the 1430s onward, inspired by developments in the Netherlands, artistic expression began to transform, as the depiction of light and shade, body and space came to be depicted with increasing realism. With advances >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747554
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 376 pgs / 215 color.
Pub Date: 07/06/2021 In stock
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|  Leonardo and the Artes Mechanicae
Edited by Romano Nanni. Text by Marco Biffi, Fabio Giusberti, Alexander Neuwahl, Davide Russo. The extraordinary technologic innovations and revolutionary machines from the collection of the Leonardo Museum in Vinci. This beautifully illustrated volume discovers the multiple interests of Leonardo the technologist, the architect, the man of science and, >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788876245749
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 318 illustrations.
Pub Date: 09/23/2014 In stock
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|  An exceptional discovery on the relations between the great master and his favorite assistant.
"Salai" is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831726115
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Pbk, 11.75 x 8.5 in. / 206 pgs / 179 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/11/2016 In stock
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|  Leonardo da Vinci created many of the most beautiful and important drawings in the history of Western art. His anatomical drawings became the yardstick for the early study of the human body. From their unique >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520091
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  Louvre Abu Dhabi
Edited by Jean-François Charnier. The Louvre Abu Dhabi has been conceived as a “museum city” or Arabic “medina.” It will be the first Arabic museum of a universal vocation, located in the Saadiyat Cultural District, conceived as a bridge >>more
Skira Paris
ISBN 9782370740724
US $34.95 CAN $45.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 11 in. / 384 pgs / 550 color.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  The territory stretching from northern Mexico to Chile is one of six world regions where ancient civilizations arose—joining Egypt, the Near East and Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, North China and Southeast Asia. The intellectual and >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467419
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 192 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock
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|  Four centuries of history become animated through a sumptuous and original European tour, which sheds light on its sovereigns and their splendor. To illustrate this ambitious undertaking, seven hundred exceptional works of art—portraits, sculptures, furniture, porcelain, >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857211176
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 368 pgs / 620 color.
Pub Date: 03/27/2012 In stock
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|  Matthijs Maris (1839–1917) initially achieved fame as a Hague School landscape painter, like his famous brothers Jacob and Willem. Over the years he abandoned this realistic style for more introverted and symbolic themes, portraying dreamy >>more
nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789462083813
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 296 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Matthijs Maris at Work
Edited by Jenny Reynaerts. Text by Erma Hermens, Laura Raven, Suzanne Veldink. This richly illustrated publication allows us to peak over the shoulder of Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer Matthijs Maris (1839–1917) as he works on his pictures. A precursor of the Symbolist movement who initially trained >>more
nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789462083820
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Hbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  Max Beckmann: The Sketchbooks
Text by Christiane Zeiller, Gerd Presler. Famed for his self portraits, which rival Rembrandt and Picasso for intensity of conception and scrutiny, Max Beckmann (1884-1950) towers over German painting of the first half of the twentieth century, providing German modernism with >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722742
US $375.00 CAN $500.00 SDNR30
Slip Clth, 10 x 12.25 in. / 976 pg / 191 color / 15 b&w / 1,260 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Out of stock
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|  Michelangelo Buonarroti: The Taddei Tondo
Text by Alison Cole. Michelangelo’s (1475–1564) “Taddei Tondo,” in the collection of the Royal Academy in London, offers a fascinating insight into the master’s technical and experimental skill. Joshua Reynolds, the Academy’s first president, considered that Michelangelo represented everything >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781910350669
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 80 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 05/23/2017 Out of stock
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|  Modern Painting And Sculpture
Edited by John Elderfield. The Museum of Modern Art houses the most important collection of twentieth-century art in the world, and the Painting & Sculpture department forms the core of its holdings. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870705762
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 536 pgs / 340 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 In stock
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|  Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh … Japanese Inspirations
Text by Geneviève Aitken, Christoph Dorsz, Sandra Gianfreda, Claire Guitton, Gregory Irvine, Peter Kropmanns, Michiko Mae, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Belinda Thomson, Sabine Bradel, Ricard Bru, Ulrike Hofer, Antje Papist-Matsuo, Mario-Andreas von Lüttichau. Japanese art is of fundamental importance for the development of modern art in Europe. Nearly all of the great nineteenth-century masters—from Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh to Pierre >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783869308999
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Hbk, 11 x 8.75 in. / 376 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 Out of stock
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|  This volume gathers commissioned essays, interviews and visual contributions from artists and writers exploring the terrain of material heritage, colonial heritage, reparation and museology. Bringing together a multiplicity of voices and formats, the timely publication >>more
Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035456
US $45.00 CAN $63.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 316 pgs / 86 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/13/2023 Out of stock
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|  Museo de Arte Ponce
Text by Alejandra Peña, Pablo Pérez D’Ors, Iraida Rodríguez-Negrón. This publication tours the Museo de Arte de Ponce’s collection of highly regarded Spanish painting and sculpture. The museum, located in San Juan, Puerto Rico, celebrates the richness of Western art from the dawn of >>more
RM/Museo de Arte Ponce
ISBN 9788416282517
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 06/28/2016 Out of stock
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|  Myth, Allegory, Faith
Edited by Bernard Barryte. Text by Bernardine Barnes, Jonathan Bober, Patricia Emison, Jan Johnson, Dorothy Limouze, Walter S. Melion, Larry Silver, Edward H. Wouk, Henri Zerner. Featuring selections from the massive Kirk Edward Long Collection of 16th-century prints, Myth, Allegory, Faith illuminates the development of the Mannerist style in Italy, tracing its dissemination and adaptation for both secular and religious purposes >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836630882
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 704 pgs / 1,000 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  Spanning nearly 1,000 years of artistic creativity, this wide-ranging volume brings together 206 artworks that exemplify both exquisite aesthetics and rich cultural histories. The majority of the collection is from the American Southwest—19th-century Navajo weavings, >>more
DelMonico Books/Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
ISBN 9781636810966
US $85.00 CAN $119.00 TRADE
Clth, 10 x 11 in. / 432 pgs / 381 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock
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|  Oceania
Text by Peter Brunt, Nicholas Thomas, Noelle M. K. Y. Kahanu, Emmanuel Kasarhérou, Sean Mallon, Michael Mel, Anne Salmond. From the remote shores of Rapa Nui to the dense rainforest of Papua New Guinea, the islands of the Pacific are home to some of the most culturally diverse populations on the planet. The region >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350492
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 328 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 In stock
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|  On the Paths of Enlightenment
Edited with text by Elio Schenini. Text by Peter Sloterdijk, Peter van de Veer, Douglas T. McGetchin, Pradeep Chakkarath, Romita Ray, Joachim K. Bautze, Marie-Cécile Forest, Aude de Tocqueville, Diana Brenscheidt, Johannes Beltz, Andrea Kuratli, et al. In 1808, German Romantic philosopher Friedrich Schlegel published On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians, inaugurating the West’s fascination with India and its extraordinary civilization. Beginning with Schlegel and the later reflections of Schopenhauer >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857236667
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 640 pgs / 600 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  This volume examines a selection of paintings from the 1520s by Italian Renaissance painter Bernardino Luini (c. 1480/85–1532) that were highly influenced by Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), endeavoring to reconceive Luini’s much-criticized lack of >>more
SKIRA
ISBN 9788857248059
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2023 In stock
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|  Winner of the IFPDA Foundation Book Award, 2023
This volume explores the satirical visual strategies that early modern Netherlandish printmakers—such as Joan Blaeu, Romeyn de Hooghe, Willem Jacobsz and Claes Jansz Visscher—used to memorialize historical events, >>more
Krannert Art Museum
ISBN 9781646570294
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 184 pgs / 89 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2022 In stock
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|  Paul Cézanne
Text by Carolyn Lanchner. Paul Cézanne died in 1906, only six years into the twentieth century, but he is widely considered the founding figure of modernist painting, the artist whom Pablo Picasso called "the father of us all." This >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707896
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2011 In stock
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|  Paul Revere: Sons of Liberty Bowl
By Gerald W.R. Ward. American patriot Paul Revere is wrapped in the swirling mixture of myth and poetry through which history often descends, but as a craftsman and artist, he left behind more tangible traces as well. In this >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468324
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 56 pgs / 23 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 In stock
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|  Picasso 1926-1939: From Minotaur to Guernica
Text by Palau i Fabre. Picasso 1926-1939: From Minotaur to Guernica focuses on a key phase of transition in Picasso's art, from his numerous depictions of the Minotaur myth in the late 1920s and early 1930s to his majestic and >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434312739
US $220.00 CAN $295.00 TRADE
Slip Clth, 12 x 12 in. / 512 pgs / 1,252 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 In stock
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|  Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters
Edited by Jodi Hauptman. Text by Jodi Hauptman, Michael Rooks, Samantha Friedman. Published in conjunction with a presentation of masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, this volume highlights the work of 14 masters of twentieth-century art: Constantin >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708053
US $50.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 192 pgs / 186 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  Picasso/Clergue
Text by Emmanuel Guigon, Sílvia Domènech. On April 5, 1953, the French photographer Lucien Clergue (1934–2014) met Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) at a bullfight in Arles. Clergue shot several portraits of the artist and showed him some of his Polaroid pictures. Two >>more
RM/MUSEU PICASSO
ISBN 9788419233127
US $50.00 CAN $69.00 FLAT40
Clth, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 256 pgs / 170 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2023 Out of stock
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|  Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels
By Tine L. Meganck. Preface by Michel Draguet, Marc Boone. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished Renaissance masterpieces in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium. Bruegel's >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836629640
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  Portraits from History
Edited by Alastair Benn, Iain Martin, Mattias Hessérus. This volume gives pride of place to the secondary figures who make the wheels of history whir and thrum. They include Churchill’s half-forgotten right-hand man, a leading light of the Parisian Belle Epoque lost to >>more
Bokförlaget Stolpe
ISBN 9789189425699
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Slip, pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 160 pgs / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/23/2023 In stock
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|  Featuring more than 150 clubs made in the 18th and 19th centuries from across a vast geographical and cultural span, Power and Prestige explores a fascinating Oceanic object form that has long been misunderstood by >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857246406
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Hbk, 8.25 x 12 in. / 320 pgs / 308 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2022 In stock
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|  This box set presents a selection of 16 notecards featuring several of the most enduring icons of Pre-Raphaelite art, including Jane Morris, Annie Miller and Fanny Cornforth. The characteristic intricate detailing and lustrous colours in >>more
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147621
US $19.95 CAN $29.95 SDNR50
Boxed, postcards, 5 x 7 in. / 24 pgs / 24 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock
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|  Reconstructing Cézanne
Introduction by Walter Feilchenfeldt. Text by Fabienne Ruppen, Yuval Etgar. This book brings to light new research into the work of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), based on close examination of the DNA makeup that constitutes the papers he used for his watercolors and drawings. The book >>more
Ridinghouse/Luxembourg & Dayan
ISBN 9781909932555
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Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 80 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock
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|  Rembrandt and Velázquez
Text by Gregor J.M. Weber, Hans den Hartog Jager, Cees Nooteboom. This volume presents the best work of two 17th-century master painters from the Netherlands and Spain, pairing paintings by each while also looking at them in the context of their contemporaries and compatriots, such as >>more
nai010 Publishers
ISBN 9789462085275
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Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 Out of stock
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|  Rembrandt x Rijksmuseum
Text by Erik Hinterding, Mireille Linck, Ilona van Tuinen, Jane Turner, Jonathan Bikker. The Rijksmuseum is home to the world’s largest collection of paintings by Rembrandt (1606–69), including the legendary works The Night Watch, The Jewish Bride, The Syndics and the great portraits of the couple Marten Soolmans >>more
Nai010 Publishers
ISBN 9789462085091
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 824 pgs / 382 color.
Pub Date: 10/29/2019 In stock
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|  In the Renaissance, artists across Europe produced lifelike portraits with new virtuoso realism and exactitude, immortalizing not only kings and noblemen but, increasingly, bankers, merchants and scholars. These paintings, busts, prints and drawings still bear >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462086500
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Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 268 pgs / 175 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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|  Renaissance Impressions
Edited by Bernard Barryte. Foreword by Pauline Willis. Text by Sharon Gregory, Arthur J. Di Furia, Jamie Gabbarelli. In the 1500s, the printed image functioned as a tool for storytelling. In addition to being vehicles for Christian subjects, engravings, etchings and woodcuts introduced many Europeans to the myths and aesthetics of Greco-Roman antiquity. >>more
Silvana Editoriale/American Federation of Arts
ISBN 9788836647033
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/12/2021 In stock
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|  The Rome immortalized in the films of Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini and Pier Paolo Pasolini has not disappeared; it exists in pockets, holding out against global homogeneity. Thanks in particular to craftsmen and artisans, >>more
SKIRA
ISBN 9788857249254
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 200 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 03/05/2024 In stock
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|  Russia and the Arts
Text by Rosalind P. Blakesley, Tatiana L. Karpova. Russia and the Arts: The Age of Tolstoy and Tchaikovsky explores the history of Russian portraiture between 1867 and 1914, a time of great cultural vibrancy in the country and a golden age of the >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145375
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Pbk, 6.75 x 11.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/22/2016 In stock
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|  With no written record of their own, the Nuragic civilization has long remained shrouded in mystery to contemporary scholars. The ancient Mediterranean civilization is thought to have occupied what is present-day Sardinia from the Bronze >>more
skira
ISBN 9788857245560
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 320 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2021 In stock
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|  Henry James credited John Singer Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent." Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468607
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  Serial / Portable Classic
Edited by Salvatore Settis, Anna Anguissola, Davide Gasparotto. Preface by Miuccia Prada, Patrizio Bertelli. Introduction by Salvatore Settis. Text by Anna Anguissola, Michael Bennett, Vinzenz Brinkmann, Kathleen W. Christian, Maurizio Ferraris, et al. In no other period of Western art history was the creation of copies from great masterpieces of the past as important as in late Republican Rome and throughout the Imperial Age. Certain Greek and Roman >>more
Fondazione Prada
ISBN 9788887029611
US $95.00 CAN $127.50 SDNR30
Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 392 pages / 388 duotone.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock
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|  Sleeping Beauties
Edited by Véronique Serrano. Text by Jean Clair, Gilles Genty, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine. The sleeping model has inspired visual artists from Bonnard to Balthus, Vuillard, Valloton, Matisse, Picasso, Brancusi, Dalí, Masson and many others, for more than a century. This publication brings together some 50 works by various >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836628315
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 160 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2015 In stock
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|  Stories of Paper
Edited with text by Xavier Salmon, Victor Hundsbuckler. Foreword by Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Hervé Barbaret, Sandra Lagumina, Manuel Rabaté, Laurence des Cars. Introduction by Souraya Noujaim. This catalog traces the history of paper as an ancient material used from antiquity to the present day. Encompassing paper's manufacture, circulation and technical development, Stories of Paper highlights the many aspects of this humble >>more
Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035470
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Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 292 pgs / 177 color / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2022 Out of stock
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|  The Age of Symbolism in Latvia
Edited by Dace Lamberga. Though its best known adherents are Redon and Moreau, Frenchmen, the late-nineteenth-century Symbolist movement in painting found some of its most fascinating expressions in Eastern and North-Eastern Europe. Latvia in this era was radically transformed >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836617234
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Clth, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 96 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Out of stock
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|  The Arab tradition of al-furusiyya is defined by principles of horsemanship, chivalry, and the mutual dependence of man and horse. This publication presents half of the Furusiyya Art Foundation’s entire collection, which includes Islamic art >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788876248771
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Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 416 pgs / 569 color.
Pub Date: 09/16/2008 Out of stock
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|  The stories of Christianity and painting have been intertwined since at least the Middle Ages. The painters of the early, high and late Renaissance in Italy, Spain and northern Europe learned their art and craft >>more
Art / Books
ISBN 9781908970343
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Hbk, 6.75 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/24/2018 In stock
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|  The Divine Heart of Things
Edited and with foreword by Klaus Schneider. Introduction by Anne Slenczka. Text by Christiane Clados, Stefanie Teufel, María Teresa Cervantes de Braginski, Andrea Ruf, Anne Slenczka. This catalogue presents around 200 artifacts from Irene and Peter Ludwig’s collection of pre-Columbian art from the Americas. The works are organized thematically and ethnically, looking at pottery of the Mimbres culture; Mayan works in >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863352936
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 248 pgs / 299 color / 48 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 In stock
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|  This sumptuous publication opens our eyes afresh to the revolution that took place in the Low Countries in the 15th and 16th centuries, and which shaped the course of European art. In 48 lavishly illustrated >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775754149
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 280 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/16/2023 In stock
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|  Between the years 1471 and 1472, Italian Renaissance artists Francesco del Cossa (c. 1430– c. 1477) and Ercole de’ Roberti (c. 1451–96) completed a multipanel piece commissioned by the patrons of the Basilica di San >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836646593
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 05/04/2021 In stock
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|  The Grotesque Factor
Text by Valeriano Bozal, Martin Clayton, Frances S. Connelly, Emmanuel Dreux, Werner Hofmann, José Lebrero Stals, Michel Melot, Luis Puelles, Xavier Tricot. Despite its longevity as a tradition stretching back to at least the eighteenth century, the Grotesque has only recently become a non-pejorative term in art and academia. The Grotesque Factor takes a close look at >>more
Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga/Legado Paul, Christine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso
ISBN 9788494024924
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 368 pgs / 157 color / 21 duotone.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock
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|  Many people believe that it is not permitted to depict human figures in Islamic art, but the Quran does not expressly forbid it, and the human figure does appear. While some Muslims have criticized and >>more
The David Collection/ Strandberg Publishing
ISBN 9788792949967
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 280 pgs / 154 color.
Pub Date: 06/12/2018 In stock
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|  The Ladies of Art
Edited by Annamaria Bava, Gioia Mori, Alain Tapié. This volume spotlights the art and lives of 34 Italian women artists of the 16th and 17th centuries, beginning with Artemisia Gentileschi—the first woman artist to question gender prejudices—and followed by Sofonisba Anguissola, Lavinia Fontana, >>more
SKIRA
ISBN 9788857246826
US $42.00 CAN $57.00 TRADE
Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock
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|  The Malaspina Expedition
Text by José María Moreno Martín, Miguel Ángel Puig-Samper, Javier Reverte, Fernando Vallespín. In 1789, Italian-born Spanish naval officer Alejandro Malaspina set off to visit Spain's colonies in Asia and the Americas. For five years, he and his crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, discovering, cataloguing and >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788475069548
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / illust. throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Out of stock
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|  By day, they were customs officers, gardeners or carnival wrestlers; by night, they were self-taught painters, working independently, who created their own fantastic worlds of imagery. Sometimes characterized as “naïve” or “outsider” artists, Henri Rousseau >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775753395
US $62.00 CAN $86.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 10/04/2022 In stock
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|  The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec
Text by Sarah Suzuki. Though he was deeply engaged with painting and drawing, Toulouse-Lautrec’s lasting contribution to artistic practice was as a graphic artist. Through his prints and posters, he brought the language of the late-nineteenth-century French avant-garde to >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870709135
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 160 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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|  The extraordinary collection of Venetian drawings in the national Gallery of Art of Washington is presented for the first time in this book: a hundred and forty-four works by the greatest Venetian masters (from Mantegna >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831720502
US $60.00 CAN $85.00 TRADE
Pbk, 11.5 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2015 In stock
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|  The Pre-Raphaelite Circle
Text by Jan Marsh. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood lent its name to one of the most significant and innovative artistic movements of the Victorian age. Jan Marsh's lively and revealing account of these remarkable men and women explores the individual >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144798
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 136 pgs / 78 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 In stock
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|  The Priest, the Prince, and the Pasha
Text by Lawrence M. Berman. Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this head of a priest, likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467969
US $24.95 CAN $33.95 TRADE
Hbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 208 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2015 In stock
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|  The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
Text by Nienke Baker. Vincent Van Gogh is one of the greatest figures in Western art. Revered for his bold expressionist paintings, he is also admired as a prodigious and eloquent letter writer. This book explores Van Gogh's correspondence >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711604
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Cloth, 10 x 11.75 in. / 301 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/01/2010 Out of stock
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|  This book presents the 16th-century cartoons of Northern Italian Renaissance artist Gaudenzio Ferrari (c. 1471–1546) and his students, who largely practiced in a style that combined elements of Milanese realism and Venetian color palettes in >>more
skira
ISBN 9788857244754
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 160 pgs / 128 color.
Pub Date: 10/05/2021 In stock
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|  The Renaissance Speaks Hebrew
Edited with text by Giulio Busi, Silvana Greco. Text by Dario Disegni, Simonetta Della Seta, Angela Scandaliato, Donatella Calabi, Miriam Davide, Mauro Perani, Francesca Trivellato, Giuseppe Veltri, David B. Ruderman, Giacomo Todeschini, Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli, Salvatore Settis, Andreina Contessa, J.H. Chajes, Saverio Campanini, Raphael Ebgi, Joanna Weinberg, Gianni Venturi, Guido Bartolucci, Giovanni Tortelli, Roberto Frassoni. This important book recounts an extraordinary intellectual history: the active participation of the Jews, who have lived in Italy since Roman times, in the Renaissance.
Documenting an age of artistic turmoil and the factions of the >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836643547
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 03/17/2020 In stock
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|  The Shadow of the Avant-garde
Edited with text by Falk Wolf, Kasper König. Text by Daniel Baumann, Tobia Bezzola, Laszlo Glozer, Robert Jones, Veit Loers, Katharina Neuburger, Maria Anna Potocka, Nina Schallenberg, Barbara Schellewald, Robert Storr, Manja Wilkens. Difficult to categorize and branded as “naive,” the oeuvres of the great autodidact painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries continue to pose problems for art history. Artists such as Henri Rousseau, André >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740593
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 254 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Out of stock
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|  The Sultan's World
Text by Robert Born, Sabine Engel, Suraiya Faroqhi, Dariusz Kolodziejczyk, Guido Messling, Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen, Günsel Renda. News of the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453, spread throughout Europe like wildfire. The geographic approach of the Ottoman Empire coincided with the emergence of a fascination with this highly developed culture and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775739665
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 303 pages / 220 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2015 Out of stock
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|  The Tudors
Edited by Charlotte Bolland. Text by Michael I. Ohajuru, Kate O’Donoghue, Frederick E. Smith, Susan Doran, Monserrat Pis Marcos, Gillian Kenny, Catherine MacLeod, Cassander Smith. This illustrated volume shows how the Tudor monarchs of Britain engaged with the internationalism of court culture; the tumultuous years of the Reformation; and the emergence of the transatlantic slave trade and English colonialism.
Taking a >>more
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855145986
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Hbk, 6.75 x 8.75 in. / 168 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock
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|  Thomas Sully: George Washington and The Passage of the Delaware
By Elliot Bostwick Davis. On the night of December 25, 1776, George Washington led his ragged Continental Army through a snowstorm across the Delaware River, on the way to a surprise attack in New Jersey that would turn the >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468331
US $9.95 CAN $14.95 TRADE
Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 64 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 In stock
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|  There is no overstating the long shadow of influence that Jacopo Tintoretto (1519–94) has exerted on the history of Western art. However, in the long historiography devoted to his work, the Venetian master lacks a >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831743839
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 232 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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|  Tintoretto in Venice: A Guide
Edited by Thomas Dalla Costa, Robert Echols, Frederick Ilchman. Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (1519–94) alone was born in Venice and he left his mark there more than either artist. His paintings can still be >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831729468
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 144 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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|  Touch Me Not
Edited and translated by Hereward Tilton, Merlin Cox. Introduction by Hereward Tilton. Touch Me Not is an Austrian manuscript compendium of the black magical arts, completed c. 1795. Unique and otherworldly, it evokes a realm of visceral dark magic. As the co-editor of this volume Hereward Tilton >>more
Fulgur Press
ISBN 9781527228832
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Hbk, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 160 pgs / 111 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 Out of stock
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|  Toulouse-Lautrec and the Stars of Paris offers a guided tour of fin-de-siècle Paris at night, bringing a group of its legendary protagonists to life.
The six performers at the center of this book—Yvette Guilbert, Jane >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468591
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Hbk, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 112 pgs / 85 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 Out of stock
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|  Transavanguardia
By Ida Gianelli. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788884914606
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Pbk, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 250 pgs / 200 illustrations.
Pub Date: 05/01/2003 In stock
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|  Traveler Artists
Edited with text by Katherine Manthorne. Text by Pablo Diener, Luis Pérez Oramas, Rafael Romero. In the 19th century, European and North American travelers illustrated narratives of their explorations in the New World that were published in Europe. Europeans imagined the tropics as a site for cultural imperialism and fantasies >>more
Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
ISBN 9780982354414
US $39.95 CAN $53.95 TRADE
Pbk, 10 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 Out of stock
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|  Treasures of the Mughals and the Maharajas allows readers to immerse themselves in the jewelry traditions of the Indian subcontinent, from the Mughal period to the modern day. The evolution of gem-setting and jewelry is >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857235943
US $70.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 392 pgs / 388 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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|  The Collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London, is renowned for its portraits from the Tudor and Jacobean eras. This book presents portraits of key individuals from this period, from the monarchs and members of >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855147669
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Pbk, 6 x 7.75 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|  Unmapping the Renaissance
Edited by Angelika Stepken, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Mariechen Danz. Text by Walter D. Mignolo, Ida Giovanna Rao, et al. But the economic structures that created the conditions for the Renaissance also brought about the colonization of non-European worlds through linguistic and semiotic hegemony—a part of the story rarely incorporated into traditional narratives of Renaissance >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903131866
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 244 pgs / 123 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/25/2017 Out of stock
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|  Van Dyck in Sicily
Text by Xavier Salomon. In spring 1624, the Flemish Baroque painter Anthony Van Dyck (1599–1641) traveled from his home base of Genoa to live in Palermo, Sicily. There, Van Dyck found a network of Flemish artists and Genoese merchants >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836621729
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Pbk, 10 x 11.25 in. / 120 pgs / 72 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2012 In stock
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|  Van Gogh in Provence
Edited with text by Sjraar van Heuglen. Foreword by Maja Hoffmann. Preface by Bice Curiger. Although Vincent van Gogh is now considered one of the most original artists of his time, his art was deeply rooted in tradition. Modern subjects and styles began to enter Van Gogh’s oeuvre after he >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330063023
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 133 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 In stock
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|  Van Gogh: Colours of the North, Colours of the South
Edited with text by Sjraar Van Heugten. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) discovered Eugene Delacroix's theories of color in Nuenen, in the Brabant, where he worked from 1883 to 1885. His work began to truly evolve in Paris, where he continued to study >>more
Van Gogh Foundation / Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330031145
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 128 pgs / 82 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2014 Out of stock
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|  Van Gogh: Drawings
Edited by Sjraar van Heugten. Text by Maja Hoffman, Bice Curiger. Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) started his artistic career by concentrating on drawing. Convinced that this was the foundation he needed to become a painter, he did little else for the first three years of his >>more
Actes Sud
ISBN 9782330052546
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 120 pgs / 76 color.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock
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|  This book gathers the covers of Ver Sacrum, the official magazine of the Vienna Secession, which ran from 1898 to 1903. Published for the 120th anniversary of this historic magazine, it reproduces all 120 regular >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857238760
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 12.75 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Out of stock
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|  Vermeer's Little Street
Text by Frans Grijzenhout. This book describes an incredible detective story: the story of the exact location of Vermeer’s famous “Little Street” which has occupied art historians for centuries. Executed circa 1657–58, and depicting a quiet street, typical of >>more
nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789491714702
US $25.00 CAN $34.50 TRADE
Pbk, 7 x 8.75 in. / 84 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 Out of stock
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|  Vermeer: The Complete Works
Edited by Renzo Villa. This volume--the new standard Vermeer monograph, now in paperback--reproduces in color all 34 of Vermeer's extant paintings, augmenting each with close-ups that lay bare the loving care that the artist lavished upon each painstaking work.
Considered >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836624140
US $35.00 CAN $47.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 Out of stock
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|  A volume which explores Van Gogh’s oeuvre through two fundamental aspects of his artistic identity: his love for the countryside and his attachment to the city. Admired for his light-filled landscapes as much as for >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857208251
US $75.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11.5 x 12 in. / 280 pgs / 214 color.
Pub Date: 09/06/2011 In stock
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|  “What is the purpose of the shadow in a painting, if not to indicate the time?” David Hockney once proposed. In this revelatory volume, poet and artist Franck Leibovici invites us to a journey into >>more
JBE Books
ISBN 9782365680707
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 6 in. / 112 pgs / 95 color.
Pub Date: 03/14/2023 In stock
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|  Selected from the rich holdings of the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, Women Picturing Women explores the common themes and complex visions that emerge when women depict other women. Portraits >>more
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College
ISBN 9781646570218
US $40.00 CAN $54.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 156 pgs / 105 color.
Pub Date: 09/21/2021 In stock
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|  Words and Coins
Foreword by Charles Méla, Angelos Delivorrias, Manos Dimitrakopoulos. Introduction by Vasiliki Penna. Text by Sylviane Messerli, André Hurst, Ute Wartenberg Kagan, Yannis Stoyas, Andrew Meadows, François de Callataÿ, Charikleia Papageorgiadou, Ioli Kalavrezou, Cécile Morrisson. From Hellenic Greece to Rome and Byzantium, coins functioned in part as narrative objects, engraved with images of gods and lords, planets and cities, heroes and legends. Words and Coins analyzes these copper coins in >>more
MER. Paper Kunsthalle
ISBN 9789490693640
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 380 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2013 In stock
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| VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT  A New World Imagined
Text by Elliot Bostwick Davis, Dennis Carr, Nonie Gadsden, Cody Hartley, Erica E. Hirshler, Heather Hole, Kelly H. L'Ecuyer, Karen E. Quinn, Dorie Reents-Budet, Gerald W.R. Ward. A New World Imagined proposes a bold new look at the art of the Americas by viewing it through its intersections and relationships with the world at large. Taking the vast geography and staggering cultural >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467600
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Clth, 10 x 10.75 in. / 304 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available
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|  Abstract Resistance
Text by Yasmil Raymond, Marcus Steinweg, Thomas Hirschhorn, Simon Baier. Abstract Resistance considers the metaphor of resistance as a political and compositional force defining the art of the past half-century. Starting with Michel Foucault's assertion that "where there is power, there is resistance," it explores >>more
Walker Postscript/Walker Art Center
ISBN 9780935640953
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 3 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2010 Not available
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|  African Ceramics: A Different Perspective
Edited by Angelika Nollert. Text by Kim Bagley, Marla Berns, Boureima Diamitani, Stefan Eisenhofer, Caroline Fuchs, Oliver Gosselain, Karin Guggeis, Alexander Livingstone-Smith, Angelika Nollert, Magdalene Odundo, Sylvester Ogbechie, Elizabeth Perrill, Kerstin Pinther, Barbara Plankensteiner, Nii Quarcoopome, Josef Strasser, Barbara Thompson, Nanashaitu Aduke Umoru-Oke, Moia Vincentelli, Julien Volpers. This extensive catalogue presents 250 African ceramic objects from the collection of HRH Franz, Duke of Bavaria, widely considered to be one of the most internationally significant collections of African ceramics. Featured here are objects >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960987086
US $65.00 CAN $92.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 10 x 12.25 in. / 448 pgs / 343 color.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 Not available
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|  Allah's Automata
Edited by Siegfried Zielinski. Text by Mohammed Abattouy, Ulrich Alertz, Salim T.S. Al-Hassani, Nadia Ambrosetti, Ayhan Aytes, Baruch Gottlieb, Claus-Peter Haase, Daniel Irrgang, Clemens Jahn, Susanne Rühling, George Saliba, Imad Samir, Mona Sanjakdar Chaarani, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski. The first Renaissance did not take place in Europe, but in Mesopotamia: Arabic-Islamic culture functioned as a mediator between classical antiquity and the early modern age in Europe. This volume, edited by renowned theorist Siegfried >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741064
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Not available
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|  American Folk
Essays by Abaigeal Duda, Pamela A. Parmal, Sue Welsh Reed, Gilian Shallcross, Carol Troyen, Gerald W.R. Ward. Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878465958
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Hardcover, 9 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 88 color.
Pub Date: 05/02/2001 Not available
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| American Folk
Edited by Gerald W.R. Ward. Essays by Abaigeal Duda, Pamela A. Parmal, Sue Welsh Reed, Gilian Ford Shallcross and Carol Troyen. Folk art has been part of the American idiom for nearly as long as America has been a nation. Today it remains one of the best-loved and most fervently collected forms of American art, a >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878465941
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Paperback, 9 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / 88 color.
Pub Date: 06/02/2002 Not available
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|  The discovery of Italy by American artists of the late nineteenth century. The relationship American impressionists had with Italy, and with Florence in particular, became very intense in the decades spanning the close of the >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831711999
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Hbk, 11.5 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 05/15/2012 Not available
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|  Antonello da Messina: Inside Painting
Edited by Giovanni C.F. Villa. Text by Jhumpa Lahiri, Elisabetta Rasy, Giorgio Montefoschi, Nicola Gardini, Roberto Alajmo. A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2019
Antonello da Messina is one of the earliest virtuosos of oil painting, a true Renaissance master who—via the influence of the Flemish painters—raised perspective and >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857238982
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 06/25/2019 Not available
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|  Aphrodite and the Gods of Love
Text by Christine Kondoleon, Rachel Kousser, Diana McDonald, Vincianne Pirenne, David Saunders. Arguably the most compelling of the ancient divinities, Aphrodite also remains the most alluring. Worshiped and celebrated, she has been depicted in ways both ethereal and crude: it was her image that inspired Praxiteles to >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467563
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Clth, 8.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available
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|  The history of a modern art movement in the Arab world called Hurufiya. Reinventing calligraphy and focusing on the formal elements of the Arabic letter, it is one of the most significant art movements that >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857231518
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Pbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 illustrations.
Pub Date: 01/03/2017 Not available
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|  Armenia
By Gabriella Uluhogian, Boghos Levon Zekiyan. Published on the occasion of the celebrations of the fifth centenary of the publication of the first book printed in Armenian characters in Venice in 1512, this volume celebrates the highest achievements of Armenian civilization >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857212449
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 408 pgs / 369 color.
Pub Date: 09/25/2012 Not available
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|  Auguste Rodin: Watercolors
Edited by Thomas Knubben and Tilman Osterwold. Essays by Claudie Judrin, Thomas Knubben and Tilman Osterwold. Auguste Rodin's extraordinary watercolors are generally less familiar to the public than his grandiose bronzes which set standards for later generations of sculptors. Yet these studies, executed with apparent ease, are no less significant as >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775715102
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Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 57 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available
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|  Aztecs
Text by Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. Displays the artwork of the Aztecs on exhibit at Britain's Royal Academy of Arts and includes essays detailing key elements of Aztec culture and history. >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973134
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Cloth, 9.75 x 12.5 / 520 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2003 Not available
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|  Beauty Revealed
Text by James Cahill, Chen Fongfong, Nancy Berliner, Sarah Handler, Julia M. White. Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting brings together some of the world’s finest examples of meiren hua (paintings of beautiful women), a largely neglected and misunderstood genre of Chinese painting spanning >>more
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
ISBN 9780971939714
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Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2013 Not available
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|  A scholarly volume that illustrates the largest surviving fresco cycle of Renaissance Milan painted by Bernardino Luini, one of Leonardo’s best pupils and a leading figure in 16th-century northern Italian art. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788881187362
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 220 illustrations.
Pub Date: 11/01/2000 Not available
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|  Biedermeier
Essays by Werner Busch, Christian Witt-Dàrring, Hans Ottomeyer, Wolfgang Häusler, Laurie Stein and Laurie Winters. Gottlieb Biedermeier, a teasing middle-class papa best known for his appearances in a Munich satirical weekly, came to fame in the 1840s. A "god-loving everyman," he represented the typical German citizen, more interested in a >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775717960
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Clothbound, 10 x 13 in. / 336 pgs / 365 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Not available
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|  Bosch, Brueghel, Rubens, Rembrandt
Edited by Klaus A. Schröder. The Albertina museum in Vienna owns one of the world’s most important collections of Dutch drawings from the period 1430–1650. Their unrivaled collection offers a scope and quality that makes it the one of the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775732956
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 234 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2013 Not available
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|  Botticelli
Edited by Andreas Schumacher. Text by Gabriel Dette, Bastian Eclercy, Cristina A. Luchinat. The art of Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510) remains the epitome of the Florentine accomplishment during the Quattrocento, under the golden age of the reign of Lorenzo di Medici. Painter of such classic Orphic allegories as “Primavera” >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724814
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Hbk, 10 x 12.25 in. / 372 pgs / 294 color / 84 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/31/2010 Not available
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|  Bronze
Edited by David Ekserdjian. >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781907533297
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Pbk / 301 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 01/01/2012 Not available
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|  Byzantium, 330-1453
Text by Robin Cormack. This text is published to accompany an exhibition devoted to the artistic and cultural riches of Byzantium. Essays trace the history and cultural development of more than 1000 years of Byzantine art, revealing the splendours >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711260
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Cloth, 10.25 x 12.25 / 494 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Not available
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|  Caravaggio: The Complete Works
Edited and text by Rossella Vodret. Dramatic shifts from foreboding dark to probing light, with minimal gradation in between; a realism that exposes all the flaws and folds of human flesh, eschewing Michelangelo's idealized bodies; a surgical explication of almost unbearably >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836616626
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 216 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available
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|  Celebrating in the Golden Age
Text by Anna Tummers, Herman Roodenburg, Thijs Weststeijn, Marieke de Winkel. From peasant fairs and carnival celebrations to lavish al fresco parties, processions and civic guard banquets, the Netherlands in the seventeenth century was a golden age of partying. Celebrating the Golden Age provides a pageant >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056628352
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 02/29/2012 Not available
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|  Chaos and Classicism
Text by Emily Braun, Kenneth E. Silver, James Herbert, Jeanne Nugent, Helen Hsu. Now available in paperback, Chaos and Classicism explores the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074051
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Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 192 pg / 140 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Not available
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|  Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936
Text by Kenneth E. Silver, Emily Braun, James Herbert, Jeanne Nugent, Helen Hsu. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936 explores the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. Accompanying the Guggenheim's exhibition of the same name, it examines the interwar >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074044
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Clth, 9 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available
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|  Charles I: King and Collector
Edited by Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Per Rumberg. Text by David Ekserdjian, Barbara Furlotti, Erin Griffey, Gregory Martin, Guido Rebecchini, Vanessa Remington, Karen Serres, Lucy Whitaker, Jeremy Wood, Helen Wyld. During his reign, King Charles I (1600–1649) came to own one of the most stupendous art collections ever assembled. Indeed, by the time of his death, it contained some 2,000 paintings and sculptures, including Renaissance >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350676
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Not available
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|  Chiaroscuro: Renaissance Woodcuts from the Collections of Georg Baselitz and The Alertina, Vienna
Edited by Achim Gnann. During the 16th century, a revolutionary printing process was developed in Northern Europe, allowing artists to produce color effects never before seen in printed media. The chiaroscuro woodcut added tonal blocks to the black line >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781907533631
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Cloth, 9.5 x 11.25 / 229 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 05/27/2014 Not available
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|  Children in Painting
By Marie-Christine Autin Graz. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788884912152
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 224 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 10/01/2002 Not available
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|  China: The Three Emperors, 1662-1795
Text by Regina Krahl. To accompany and record this remarkable exhibition, the Royal Academy will publish a sumptuously illustrated catalogue containing full-colour reproductions and scholarly entries for all exhibits. An incisive series of essays by leading experts - among >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973691
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Cloth, 10 x 11.75 / 496 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2006 Not available
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|  Chola: Secred Bronzed of Southern India
Text by Vidya Dehejia. Between the 8th and 13th centuries, the Chola dynasty was the dominant cultural, artistic, religious and political force in southern India. This book presents 40 Chola bronzes, exploring how and why these objects came to >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973837
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Cloth, 9.25 x 12 / 157 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 02/01/2007 Not available
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|  Citizens and Kings: Portraits in the Age of Revolution 1760 - 1830
Text by Sebastien Allard. This dramatically illustrated catalogue includes an incisive series of essays that explore portraiture in Europe and North America between 1770 and 1830. Leading experts discuss key works from the Enlightenment and revolutionary period, covering the >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973233
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Cloth, 10 x 11.25 / 429 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 05/01/2007 Not available
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|  Color in Art
Edited and with Introduction by Michael Juul Holm, Helle Crenzien. Preface by Stephanie Rachum. Text by Jacob Wamberg, John Gage, et al. What is color? From Aristotle and Plato through Newton and Goethe to Wittgenstein, philosophers and scientists have worked to understand and categorize color, while artists have made their own efforts to demonstrate its enigmatic logics. >>more
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788791607813
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Pbk, 9.25 x 10 in. / 240 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Not available
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|  Constantin Brancusi & Richard Serra: Resting In Time and Space
Text by Friedrich Teja Bach, Raphaël Bouvier, Alfred Pacquement. In recent years, critics and curators have pursued fascinating lines of analogy and sympathy between the sculptural oeuvres of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (born 1939). Foremost among these shared qualities is the awareness >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775728218
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Hbk, 11 x 12.5 in. / 244 pgs / 80 color / 102 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available
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|  Conversations with Turner: The Watercolors
Edited by Nicholas Bell. Text by Tim Barringer, Alexander Nemerov, Oliver Meslay, Susan Grace Galassi. J.M.W. Turner, one of Britain’s greatest painters, is perhaps known best for his oil paintings. But he was a lifelong watercolorist, and he fundamentally reshaped what would be understood as possible within the medium, both >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857240916
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Hbk, 12 x 10.25 in. / 208 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 Not available
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|  Cranach
Text by Bodo Brinkmann. This title records the first major survey of Cranach to be held in Britain. It is illustrated with over 100 works which represent the range and quality of the work of this important artist. >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711130
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Cloth, 10 x 12.5 / 400 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available
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|  Cézanne and Paris
Text by Jean Arrouye, Maryline Assante di Panzillo, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmayer, Isabelle Chan, Phillipe Cezanne, André Dombrowski, Benedict Leca, Pavel Machotka, Joachim Pissaro, Joseph J. Rischel, James H. Rubin, et. al. “Provence,” “apples” and “bathers” are probably the three words that first come to mind when we consider Cézanne’s abiding subject matter. Throughout his life, the artist, whom posterity has often portrayed as a pastoral hermit, >>more
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Grand Palais
ISBN 9782711859191
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Pbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Not available
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|  Cézanne: Site/Non-Site
Edited with text by Guillermo Solana. Text by Paula Luengo. In 1969, the artist Robert Smithson proposed a new interpretation of the work of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). In Smithson's view, Cézanne's painting had been distorted by the Cubists, reduced to an almost abstract play of >>more
Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza
ISBN 9788415113508
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Flexi, 8.5 x 9.75 in. / 200 pgs / 117 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available
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|  Dark Romanticism
Edited by Felix Krämer. Text by Ingo Borges, Dorothee Gerkens, Johannes Grave, Mareike Henning, Felix Krämer, Manuela Mena Marqués, Claudia Wagner, et al. From its very inception in the late eighteenth century, Romanticism’s celebration of euphoria and sublimity has been dogged by its equally intense fascination with melancholia, insanity, crime, the grotesque and the irrational. In 1930, the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775733731
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 291 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Not available
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|  Daumier: Visions of Paris
By Honore Daumier. Honore Daumier (1808 1879) is perhaps best known for his political and social caricatures, precise and witty observations of life in 19th-century France. This authoritative new study provides a long-overdue assessment of his work, bringing >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781907533327
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Cloth, 9.75 x 11.25 / 221 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 12/17/2013 Not available
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|  Degas and the Nude
Text by Xavier Rey, Anne Roquebert, George T.M. Shackelford. Interview with Lucian Freud by Martin Gayford. The nude figure was critical to the art of Edgar Degas throughout his life, and yet frequently his expansive body of work on this subject has been overshadowed by his celebrated portraits and dancers. Degas >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467730
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Clth, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 241 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available
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|  Della Robbia
By Marietta Cambareri. Contributions by Abigail Hykin, Courtney Leigh Harris. The glazed terra-cotta technique invented by Luca della Robbia, along with his exceptional skill as a sculptor, placed him firmly in the first rank of Renaissance artists in the fifteenth century. The Della Robbia studio >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468416
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 Not available
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|  Dialogue Among Fauves
Text by Zoltán Rockenbauer, Gergely Barki. Led by Henri Matisse and André Derain, and briefly counting Georges Braque among its ranks, Fauvism advanced a spontaneity and apparent wildness of brushwork and color that won the movement its derogatory tag of Les >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836618729
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Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 120 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available
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|  Diving to the Pharaohs
Text by Jürgen Bischoff. Photographs by Christoph Gerigk. In the spring of 1992, acknowledged pioneer of modern maritime archaeology Franck Goddio set out to locate the port facilities and palace quarter of the ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria, founded in 331 BC. Equipped >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783958291799
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Hbk, 9 x 9 in. / 194 pgs / 181 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 Not available
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|  Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy
Text by Stephen Robeson Miller, Jonathan Stuhlman. Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage were two of Surrealism's leading painters, who together elaborated de Chirico's world of isolate and obdurate forms into eerie landscapes sparsely populated with biomorphic life forms. Here, for the first >>more
The Katonah Museum of Art/The Mint Museum
ISBN 9780983194217
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Flexi, 8 x 11 in. / 104 pgs / 69 color / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  Drama and Desire: Japanese Painting from the Floating World, 1690-1850
Edited by Anne Nishimura Morse. Text by Anne Nishimura Morse, Howard Hibbett, Masato Naito, Kobayashi Tadashi, Asano Shugo. A rare gem: Drama and Desire presents 69 masterpieces of Japanese ukiyo-e painting by such renowned masters as Hokusai, Utamaro and Harunobu, among others--all depicting aspects of the so-called "floating world," the licentious demimonde of >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467105
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Clothbound, 10 x 11.5 in. / 248 pgs/200 color
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Why did early modern architects continue copying drawings long after the invention of print should have made such copying obsolete? Carolyn Yerkes answers that question in a fresh investigation into the status of architectural drawing >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831726740
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Pbk, 9.8 x 7.8 in. / 288 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 02/20/2018 Not available
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|  Dutch Classicism
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nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056621216
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 352 pgs / 130 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/02/2000 Not available
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|  Edgar Degas: The Late Work
Edited by Martin Schwander. Text by Carol Armstrong, Jonas Beyer, Richard Kendall, Martin Schwander, Mareike Wolf-Scheel. While Edgar Degas has long been considered one of the major pioneers of modern art, exhibitions of his work remain a surprisingly rare occurrence, and the enduring popularity of the “beautiful” paintings of his Impressionist >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775734431
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Clth, 9.75 x 12.25 in. / 268 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2013 Not available
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|  Egypt In The Age Of The Pyramids
Essays by Rita E. Freed, Joyce L. Haynes, Yvonne J. Markowitz. The age of the pyramids, or Old Kingdom period, was Egypt's crowning moment, known to many as its Golden Age. It was a time when kings and queens commanded stone to be turned into architectural >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466306
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 150 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2002 Not available
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|  El Greco
Text by Santiago Alcolea. El Greco (born Domenicos Theotocopoulos, 1541-1614) was born on the Greek island of Crete, then a Venetian colony, and went as a youth to Venice, where he began by painting icons in the Byzantine style >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434309661
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 108 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  El Greco to Velázquez
Edited by Ronni Baer, Sarah Schroth. Text by Laura Bass, Antonio Feros, Rosemarie Mulcahy. Philip III (1578-1621), so often dismissed in favor of Philip II and Philip IV, actually presided over an era of crucial artistic development in Spain. His reign was a time of cultural and political vitality >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467266
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Hardback, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 352 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 04/24/2008 Not available
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|  Emil Nolde: Wanderlust
Edited by Andreas Fluck. Published in association with the Nolde Foundation, this is the sixth volume in DuMont's series devoted to painter Emil Nolde (1867-1956). As a member of Die Brücke (The Bridge), Nolde was known for his vigorous >>more
DuMont
ISBN 9783832192822
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Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 122 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Not available
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|  Emotions
Text by Gary Schwartz, Machiel Keestra, Anna Tummers, Thijs Weststeijn. For seventeenth-century connoisseurs, the beauty of a painting was not nearly as important as the passions that could be seen in it; these were the "soul" of the work. Fear, sadness, surprise, anger, lust and >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081703
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Pbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 Not available
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|  Ferdinand Hodler
During the last years of his life, Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) made significant advances in his painting, creating some of his most important and touching masterpieces. Working in series and variations, he gave new, liberated form >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775733793
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 190 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  Fernand Léger: Paris-New York
Text by Yve-Alain Bois, Raphaël Bouvier, Christian Derouet, Brigitte Hedel-Samson, Philippe Büttner. Fernand Léger (1881-1955) is one of the few Modernist artists that can be said to have anticipated both American Abstraction and American Pop, and to have made a deliberate relationship with American culture: He visited >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721615
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Hardback, 10 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 107 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Not available
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| The 17th-century was a period of extraordinary achievement in Italian painting that placed Naples at the center of international artistic taste. The almost continuous artistic accomplishments in Naples at this time left an imprint on >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788876249747
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Pbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 176 pgs / 55 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/04/2007 Not available
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|  For the Privileged Few
Edited by Kjeld Von Folsach, Michael Juul Holm. Islamic miniature paintings have historically been produced as both illustrations for books and as discrete works intended to be kept in an album. The techniques used in their making share similarities with the Byzantine tradition >>more
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788791607141
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Hardback, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 236 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available
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|  From Fra Angelico to Bonnard
By Marc Restellini. >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788881188024
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.25 in. / 272 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2001 Not available
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|  From Schongauer To Holbein
Contributions by Hans Meilke, Christian Muller. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775708487
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/1999 Not available
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|  Genius Of Rome: 1592-1623
Text by Beverly Louise Brown. At the close of the 16th century, Europe’s most talented painters flocked to Rome, the Eternal City, to execute commissions for popes, princes, and cardinals. Four artists—Caravaggio, Annibale Carracci, Rubens, and Adam Elsheimer—played central roles >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9780900946882
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Cloth / 408 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 01/01/2001 Not available
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|  German Master Drawings From The Koenigs Collection
Edited by Albert J. Elen. Foreword by J.P. Balkenende. This publication presents 139 drawings and three prints from a recently rediscovered portion of the Koenigs Collection--one of the world's most important pre-war private collections of drawings, assembled in 1920-1930 by the Haarlem-based art collector >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056624170
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Paperback, 8 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 142 color / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Not available
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|  Global Lab
Edited by Peter Noever. Text by Bert Fragner, Barbara Frischmuth, Salman Rushdie, Wheeler M. Thackston. Ever since Fernand Braudel's Civilization and Capitalism was published in 1979, the epoch between 1500 and 1700 has increasingly been understood as the moment when the economic and colonial forces that govern our world today >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724746
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 368 pgs / 360 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Not available
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|  Goya
Text by José Gudiol. Goya--the name alone evokes countless masterpieces, both painted and printed: the raw and brutal “Third of May 1808,” the nightmarish Caprichos etchings (with the famous motto, “The sleep of reason produces monsters”), the compellingly erotic >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311749
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Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 122 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Not available
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|  Goya: Order & Disorder
Text by Stephanie Loeb Stepanek, Frederick Ilchman, Janis A. Tomlinson, Clifford S. Ackley, Jane E. Braun, Manuela B. Mena Marqués, Gudrun Maurer, Elisabetta Polidori, Sue W. Reed, Benjamin Weiss, Juliet Wilson-Bareau. Francisco Goya has been widely celebrated as the most important Spanish artist of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, and an astute observer >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468089
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Clth, 9.25 x 11 in. / 400 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 Not available
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|  Gustave Caillebotte: Parisian Impressionist with a Passion for Water
Rowers and divers, strolling couples, scenes of Parisian working life: This is the world of Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894). Though he was affiliated with Impressionism from the start (he funded several early Impressionist exhibitions and often >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721912
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Hardback, 9.5 x 11 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/01/2008 Not available
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|  Hokusai
Text by Sarah E. Thompson, Joan Wright, Philip Meredith. Katsushika Hokusai remains one of Japan's most popular and influential artists. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai's artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. It >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468256
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 135 color.
Pub Date: 05/26/2015 Not available
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|  Rediscovered in an old box in the storage rooms of the museum, these Hokusai drawings should have been used to create the woodblocks for printing a continuation of his Manga series. But although scholars have >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468263
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Hbk, 8.25 x 7.75 in. / 248 pgs / 204 color.
Pub Date: 08/23/2016 Not available
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|  Idols
Edited by Annie Caubet. With Idols, Annie Caubet, archaeologist and Curator Emeritus of the Louvre, takes readers on an aesthetic journey across time and space. Caubet surveys the beginnings of human figurative imagery from 4000–2000 BCE, as the Neolithic >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857238852
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 282 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Not available
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|  Illusions of Reality
Edited by Gabriel P. Weisberg. Text by Edwin Becker, David Jackson, Willa Silverman, Gabriel P. Weisberg, Maartje de Haan. Capturing realistic images on canvas has been a staple aspiration of western art since the Renaissance development of scientific perspective. At the end of the nineteenth century, however, animated by the invention of photography and >>more
Mercatorfonds/Van Gogh Museum
ISBN 9789061539414
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Hbk, 11.75 x 9.75 in. / 224 pgs / 226 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Not available
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|  During the 1870s and 1880s, a group of French artists, including Pissarro, Monet, and Renoir, adopted a style of painting and subjects that challenged the art of the Academie Francaise where “official” assumptions about the >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788861307384
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Pbk, 5.25 x 6.5 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 04/21/2009 Not available
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|  Impressionism In Boston 1860-1910
Text by Erica Hirshler. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973608
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Cloth, 9.5 x 11 in. / 114 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 09/01/2005 Not available
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|  Impressionism on the Seine
Edited by Marina Ferretti Bocquillon. Text by Marina Ferretti Bacquillon, Anne L. Cowe, Dominique Lobstein, Vanessa Lecomte. Stretching from Paris to Le Havre, the Seine river and the valley flanking it afford some of France's loveliest views. The ports, holiday homes and artists' houses, the boats, the washerwomen, the windmills, the open-air >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836616206
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available
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|  Impressionists by the Sea
Text by John House. Through some 60 works, John House and David Hopkin consider the pictorial representation of the seaside during the 19th century, when the coastline of northern France was transformed from a centre of fishing into the >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973882
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Cloth, 11 x 10 / 153 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 09/01/2007 Not available
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|  Impressions Of Light: The French Landscape From Corot To Monet
Essays by Fronia E. Wissman, Karen E. Haas, Anne Havinga, Sue Welsh Reed and Barbara Stern Shapiro. Introduction by George T.M. Shackelford. This large, lavish journey through the art of the 19th-century French landscape offers a host of masterful works, among them Corot's Forest of Fontainbleau, Millet's End of the Hamlet of Gruchy, Renoir's Rocky Crags at >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466467
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Hardcover, 11 x 12 in. / 292 pgs / 180 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/02/2002 Not available
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|  Indian Painting
By Joan Cummins. From refined portraits of resplendent maharajas to earthy depictions of divine rogues cavorting with milkmaids, Indian miniature paintings depict the world as it should be: radiant, plentiful and passionate. These manuscript illustrations combine vibrant color >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467068
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Paperback, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Not available
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|  Indian Painting
By Joan Cummins. From refined portraits of resplendent maharajas to earthy depictions of divine rogues cavorting with milkmaids, Indian miniature paintings depict the world as it should be: radiant, plentiful and passionate. These manuscript illustrations combine vibrant color >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467044
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Clothbound, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2006 Not available
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|  Jean-Etienne Liotard: 1702-1789
Contributions by Christopher Baker. Renowned during the 18th century for his exquisite portraits and pastels, not to mention his outlandish Orientalist outfits, Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702 - 1789) painted some of the most significant rulers and aristocrats in Europe, including >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781907533990
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Cloth, 12 x 12 / 230 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 10/13/2015 Not available
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|  Joan Miró
Text by Rosa Maria Malet. This affordably priced monograph provides an ideal introduction to the joyful visual world of Joan Miró (1893-1983), one of the twentieth century's greatest and most beloved artists, whose pictorial language--for once the right term--was appropriated >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434310230
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Hbk, 8.75 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 116 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  Joaquín Sorolla and the Glory of Spanish Dress
Edited by Molly Sorkin and Jennifer Park. Preface by Ángeles Gonzáles-Sinde. Introduction by André Leon Talley. Foreword by Oscar de la Renta, Harold Koda. Text by Mitchell A. Codding, Covadonga Pitarch Angulo, Irene Seco Serra, Maria Antonia Herradón Figueroa. This handsomely produced catalogue is published to accompany an exhibition at Queen Sofía Spanish Institute that analyzes the rich history of Spain’s regional clothing styles through the monumental paintings of Valencian artist Joaquín Sorolla y >>more
Queen Sofía Spanish Institute
ISBN 9780615548180
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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 151 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Not available
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|  Each year between 1819 and 1825, English painter John Constable (1776–1837) submitted a monumental canvas to the Royal Academy of Arts in London for display in the Summer Exhibition. These so-called “six-footers” captured the life >>more
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350812
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 96 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 Not available
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|  This richly illustrated volume introduces readers to the visual worlds of the Flemish miniaturists Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600), who enriched entomology with his exquisite depictions of nature, and his son Jacob Hoefnagel (1575–1632/33), who painted mythological >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741736
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 528 pgs / 459 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Not available
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|  Kirchner
Edited by Felix Krämer. Text by Javier Arnaldo, Max Hollein, Sandra Oppmann, et al. Ernst Ludwig Kirchner painted city life as a joyous, bustling pageant, a sophisticated swirl of desiring bodies and colorful urbanity, giving Germany an energetic iconography for the glory days of modernity. One of the four >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725538
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 304 pgs / 380 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Klee and CoBrA: Child's Play
Text by Michael Baumgartner, Jonathan Fineberg, Rudi Fuchs. Friedrich Froebel's invention of the kindergarten in the nineteenth century and Rudolf Steiner's educational theory at the start of the twentieth century had enormous consequences for modern art--above all in their theorizings of childhood creativity. >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775729833
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 224 pgs / 215 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available
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|  Konrad Witz
Text by Bodo Brinkmann. Perhaps the greatest painter of water there has ever been, the German Renaissance artist Konrad Witz (circa 1400 - 1446), was a contemporary of Jan Van Eyck and Uccello, and shared their fervor for perspective, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727617
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 320 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available
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|  Kuniyoshi X Kunisada
Text by Sarah E. Thompson, Masato Matsushima, Akira Tsukahara, Chika Kagami, Kazushi Kuroda, Noriko Katsumori, Yuiko Miwa. Famous for the realism of his portraits of Kabuki actors, the sensuality of his beautiful women and the luxurious settings he imagined for historical scenes, Kunisada was the popular favorite during his lifetime. Kuniyoshi is >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468478
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Hbk, 10.75 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 10/24/2017 Not available
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|  One of the most important and innovative Japanese artists of the 19th century, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) produced artistically and technically groundbreaking prints that met with great popularity among the general public. As a designer of >>more
Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903320208
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Hbk, 10 x 8.25 in. / 152 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2020 Not available
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|  Kuniyoshi: From the Arthur R. Miller Collection
Text by Timothy Clark. This handsome volume explores the life and work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (17981861), one of Japans greatest print artists. Alongside such illustrious names as Hokusai and Hiroshige, he dominated the nineteenth-century production of the popular genre >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711406
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Cloth, 10.5 x 11.75 / 301 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 04/01/2009 Not available
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|  Kurt Schwitters: A Journey Through Art
Text by Roger Cardinal. Gwendolen Webster. The influence of Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) permeates the art, literature and music of the past century as profoundly as any of his contemporaries. Hero of Dada, Constructivist virtuoso, patron saint of collage, sound poetry and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725118
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 160 pgs / 85 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2011 Not available
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|  Leonardo da Vinci: Painter
Text by Giovanni Villa. More iconic images accrue to the name of Leonardo da Vinci than to any other artist. The “Mona Lisa” stands as a sort of primary visual signifier for “Art” itself, just as his drawing of >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836621446
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2012 Not available
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|  Looking East
Text by Helen Burnham, Sarah E. Thompson, Jane E. Braun. A craze for all things Japanese in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries brought a correspondingly radical shift in Western art, dubbed Japonisme. Leading artists, including Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet, were inspired >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468102
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Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 86 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Not available
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|  For John Ruskin (1819–1900), the discovery of Tintoretto's (1519–94) works in 1845 was revelatory. His visit to the Scuola Grande di San Rocco that year would inspire Ruskin to write The Stones of Venice, beloved >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831790000
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 89 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Not available
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|  László Moholy-Nagy: The Art of Light
Edited by Hattula Moholy-Nagy. Text by Oliva María Rubio, Vicenzo Vitiello, Hubertus von Amenluxen, Hattula Moholy-Nagy, Frans Peterse, Oliver A.I. Botar, Jeanpaul Goergen. An artist and thinker of astounding energy and ability, László Moholy-Nagy was a true world citizen of the early twentieth century, an ambassador-at-large for Constructivism, Suprematism, Dada and the Bauhaus. He brought the same Constructivist >>more
La Fábrica
ISBN 9788492841349
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Clth, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 256 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 09/30/2010 Not available
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|  Making History: Antiquaries in Britain, 1707-2007
Contributions by David Gaimster. Making History' explores the work and achievement of the Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries, London, from its foundation in the early 18th century to 2007. >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711031
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Cloth, 10 x 11.25 / 268 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 11/01/2007 Not available
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|  Manet: Portraying Life
By Edouard Manet. Today, it seems astonishing that the work of Edouard Manet (1832-83), the master French painter, was controversial in his day. His subversive handling of both paint and subject matter, coupled with his detached gaze, shocked >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711741
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Cloth, 9.75 x 10.75 in. / 213 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/01/2012 Not available
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|  Mapping Cyprus
Edited by Loukia Loizou Hadjigavriel. Text by Demetris Christofias, Androulla Vassiliou, Elio Di Rupo, Archbishop Chrysostomos, Paul Dujardin, Etienne Davignon. Mapping Cyprus traces the unique cultural history of Cyprus, an island that has variously been under Byzantine, Frankish, Venetian, Ottoman and British rule. The position of the island--situated at the eastern end of the Mediterranean >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836623709
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 272 pgs / 158 color / 52 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  Masks: Art to Hear Series
As long as humankind has needed ritual, theater and dialogue, it has fashioned and deployed masks. Modern art's relationship with masks underwent a transformation in the late nineteenth century, as Japanese and African mask craft >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724166
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 52 pgs / 44 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 09/30/2009 Not available
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|  Masterpieces Restored
Edited with foreword and text by Giulio Manieri Elia. Introduction by David Rosand. Extraordinary works of art by major Venetian masters seen for the first time in all their restored splendor. This book presents a number of wonderful art masterpieces housed at the Accademia Galleries in Venice and >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831798112
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Hbk, 11.4 x 9.5 in. / 300 pgs / 188 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/16/2010 Not available
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|  Masters of Impressionism
Edited by Andreas Blühm. Text by Andreas Blühm, Michael Zimmermann, Barbara Schäfer. For lovers of the late-nineteenth century art movement that broke all conventions of academic painting by privileging color over line, encouraging work en plein air and depicting realistic subjects from modern life, this substantial new >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720922
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Hardback, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 345 pgs / 250 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Not available
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|  Matthias Buchinger: “The Greatest German Living”
Matthias Buchinger (1674–1739) performed on more than a half-dozen musical instruments, some of his own invention. He exhibited trick shots with pistols, swords and bowling. He danced the hornpipe and deceived audiences with his skill >>more
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221125
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Not available
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|  Matthias Grünewald: The Drawings
Edited by Ruediger Becksmann. Text by Max J. Friedländer. On the occasion of its centennial anniversary, the German Verein für Kunstwissenschaft has compiled all of Renaissance master Matthias Grünewald's known drawings in this opulent volume, which is filled with exquisitely reproduced color plates, complete >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721417
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Slipcased, Clothbound, 12.5 x 17 in. / 184 pgs / 40 color / 36 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Not available
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|  Max Beckmann: The Landscapes
Edited by Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, Nina Peter. Text by Hans Belting, Eva Demski. The landscape paintings of Max Beckmann (1884-1950) are increasingly understood as fundamental to his achievement, equivalent in stature to his portraits but operating as the ground for a very different side of Beckmann's sensibility. His >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775731478
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 115 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2011 Not available
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|  Meret Oppenheim: Fountain Stories
Edited by Simon Baur, Martin A. Bühler. Text by Belinda Grace Gardner, Annemarie Monteil. More than any other Surrealist, the Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985) embraced, pursued and defined Surrealism's cult of the object, fashioning such classic works as the famous fur cup (at the age of 23!) and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725903
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 45 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available
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|  Michelangelo's David: From Symbol to Myth
Contributions by Aurelio Amendola. Michelangelo's classic David is one of the world's most recognizable sculptures, a masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance that is also a pop-culture icon. In Michelangelo's David, this timeless work is presented in an intriguing new >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973998
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Cloth, 9.75 x 13.75 / 95 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 12/01/2006 Not available
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|  Michelangelo: The Drawings of a Genius
Edited by Achim Gnann. Text by Klaus Albrecht Schröder. Michelangelo's drawings endowed human physique with an expressive musculature that remains to be rivaled in its feeling for corporeal articulation. His drawings of male nudes in particular, fraught as they are with tempestuous longing, project >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725897
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 416 pgs / 310 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2011 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Ceramics
Text by Joan Gardy Artigas, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820792
US $335.00 CAN $445.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 398 pgs / 570 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Drawings, Volume I
Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820846
US $335.00 CAN $445.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 390 pgs / 808 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume I
Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820310
US $295.00 CAN $390.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 248 pgs / 322 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume II
Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820389
US $295.00 CAN $390.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 264 pgs / 328 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume III
Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820495
US $295.00 CAN $390.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 264 pgs / 347 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume IV
Edited by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820563
US $295.00 CAN $390.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 268 pgs / 336 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume V
Text by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820624
US $295.00 CAN $390.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 5 x 32 in. / 278 pgs / 353 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Paintings, Volume VI
Text by Jacques Dupin, Ariane Lelong-Mainaud, Joan Punyet Miró. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820679
US $295.00 CAN $390.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 5 x 32 in. / 272 pgs / 396 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Miró: Catalogue Raisonné, Sculptures
Edited by Emilio Fernández Miró, Pilar Ortega Chapel. Alongside Picasso and Warhol, Joan Miró (1893-1983) is one of the twentieth century's most influential artists. Miró created a pictorial world of intense imaginative power, in which visionary and cosmic elements are inextricably intertwined with >>more
Polígrafa/Lelong
ISBN 9782868820747
US $335.00 CAN $445.00 SDNR30
Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 392 pgs / 440 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  Mondrian De Stijl
Text by Hans Janssen, Franz-W. Kaiser, Matthias Mühling, Felicia Rappe. Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) emptied Cubism of its representational content, dissembling its angular contours into a few floating horizontal lines and reconstructing it anew as irregular squares of primary color. Mondrian dubbed the abstract style at >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775730235
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 304 pgs / 126 color / 41 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  Namban: Art in Viceregal Mexico
Essay by Rodrigo Rivero Lake. "Namban" is one of the first known Eastern terms for Westernization, and it describes a century of Japanese trade with Europe in the 1500s and 1600s, trade that influenced Japanese society and art a great >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788475066936
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 327 pgs / 193 color.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available
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|  Natalia Goncharova: Between Russian Tradition and European Modernism
Edited by Alla Chilova, Beate Kemfert. Text by Evgenia Iluchina, Gleb Pospelow. One of the original "amazons of the Russian avant garde," Natalia Goncharova (1881-1962) bequeathed a rich and complex body of work to a culture that has only recently begun to recognize it. Like her contemporary >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775725798
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Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 168 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2010 Not available
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|  "Not Theories but Revelations": The Art and Science of Abbott Handerson Thayer
Foreword by Christina Olsen. Text by Kevin M. Murphy. Though perhaps best known for his portraits, American painter Abbott Handerson Thayer (1849–1921) also developed detailed theories of animal camouflage. With his fine-arts training and his careful observations of nature, Thayer created works that he >>more
Williams College Museum of Art
ISBN 9780981576275
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Hbk, 9.75 x 10.25 in. / 136 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Not available
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|  Odilon Redon: As In A Dream
Edited by Margret Stuffmann, Max Hollein. The French painter, draftsman and mystic, Odilon Redon, was already in his forties, an eminence grise, when a group of young colleagues asked him to the 1884 founding of the Société des Indépendants. He was >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718943
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 336 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/01/2007 Not available
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|  Painting in a Man's World
Fiction by Diane Broeckhoven, Noëlle Châtelet, Annette Pehnt, Alissa Walser. In this illustrated reader, four celebrated female authors contribute short stories based on four of the great women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, a founder of the movement; Mary Cassat, an American artist influenced by Japanese woodcuts; >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720779
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Paperback, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 112 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2008 Not available
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|  A new undertaking by Venetian Heritage and Bulgari for Venetian art offers the occasion to rediscover two paintings by Paolo Veronese, a great master of Venetian Renaissance art.
Two paintings by Paolo Veronese, Saint Jerome in >>more
Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831728263
US $18.00 CAN $24.95 TRADE
Pbk, 8.75 x 6.5 in. / 96 pgs / 56 color.
Pub Date: 02/20/2018 Not available
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|  Qajar Women
Edited with text by Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Nur Sobers-Khan. Text by Amélie Couvrat-Desvergnes, Stefan Masarovic. Essays by international experts trace changes in the ideals of female beauty in modern Islamic art and highlight the diversity of women’s representations, using the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Persia from 1785 to 1925, as >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836635252
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 153 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 Not available
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|  Rembrandt's Nose: Of Flesh and Spirit in the Master’s Portraits
By Michael Taylor. The year 2006 marked the 400th anniversary of the birth of one of the greatest portrait painters that ever lived, the Dutch seventeenth-century master, Rembrandt. Although Rembrandt is among the most important artists in western >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781933045443
US $27.50 CAN $32.50 TRADE
Hardcover, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 168 pgs/ 49 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Renoir: Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie
Text by Augustin de Butler, Peter Kropmanns, Marc Le Coeur, Stefanie Manthey, Sylvie Patry, David Pullins, Nina Zimmer, Michael F. Zimmermann. Alongside Monet, Bazille and Sisley, Pierre-Auguste Renoir laid the foundations of Impressionism in 1860s Paris. But acclaim for his painting was slow in coming, primarily because of the tribulations of the Franco-Prussian War and the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775732413
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 302 pgs / 107 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2012 Not available
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|  Return Of The Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries
Text by Tony Corbett. This handsome volume—the catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London—celebrates the 1996 discovery of a hoard of Buddhist stone statues at the Longxing temple site in Qingzhou, Shandong Province, China. As >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973059
US $59.95 CAN $76.50 TRADE
Cloth / 175 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2002 Not available
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|  Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries
Text by Tony Corbett. This handsome volume -- the catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London -- celebrates the 1996 discovery of a hoard of Buddhist stone statues at the Longxing temple site in Qingzhou, >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9780810966437
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Cloth, 8.75 x 12.25 / 172 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 05/28/2002 Not available
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|  Interpretations of Dadd's art have been coloured by Romantic notions of creativity and madness, by enthusiasm for Outsider Art, and by the ideas of Michel Foucault and the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s and 1970s. >>more
D.A.P./Tate
ISBN 9781935202684
US $50.00 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  Rodin and America
Edited by Bernard Barryte. Text by Antoinette LeNormand-Romain, Roberta Tarbell, Ilene Susan Fort. From the end of the nineteenth century until his death in 1917, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was arguably the most famous artist in the western world. Celebrated in endless exhibitions throughout Europe, he enjoyed >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836620005
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available
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|  Rubens, Jordaens, Van Dyck
Essays by Roger Baetens, Bert Meijer, Carl Depauw, Maartje de Haan, Ger Luijten, Bram Meij and Hans Vlieghe. Among the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum's extensive holdings of Old Master drawings, the collection of drawings by the Antwerp masters Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Anthony van Dyck stand out as absolute highlights. This >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056622121
US $59.95 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 12.25 x 9.5 in. / 384 pgs / 100 color / 545 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/02/2001 Not available
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|  Russia!
Essays by James Billington, Lidia Iovleva, Robert Rosenblum, Mikhail Allenov, Alexander Borovsky, Alexander Kostenevich, Valerie Hillings, Evgenia Petrova and others. Building upon 20 years of groundbreaking exhibitions of Russian avant-garde art--including The Great Utopia: Russian and Soviet Art 1915-1932 (1992) and Kazimir Malevich: Suprematism (2003), among others--the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum presents this blockbuster show, >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892073290
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Clothbound, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 464 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Not available
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|  Russia! Catalogue Of The Exhibition
Russia!: Catalogue of the Exhibition, provides a thorough representation of Russian art from the twelfth century to today--including pieces from the world-class collections amassed by Russian tsars and merchants from the eighteenth through the twentieth >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892073313
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Paperback, 9.25 x 10.5 in. / 80 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2005 Not available
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|  Russia's Unknown Orient
Text by Olga Atroschenko, Vladimir Bulatov, Inessa Kouteinikova, Karina Solovyeva, David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Irina Bagdamian. Russia's Unknown Orient tells the story of Russia's artistic and historical ties with its southern neighbors: Uzbekistan (former Turkistan), the countries of the Caucasus (Georgia and Armenia) and the Crimea. The bond between Russia and >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056627621
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 224 pgs / 175 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2011 Not available
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|  Samurai
Edited by Gunda Luyken, Beat Wismer. Text by Claudia Delank, Bernd Jesse, Gunda Luyken, Bianca Raitz, Stephan von der Schulenburg, Christina Voit. In the early 1960s, what was then the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf received a large gift of Japanese woodcuts (Ukiyo-e), a gift to which the donor would generously add until 1988. This catalogue presents 220 pieces from >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775732390
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 296 pgs / 455 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2013 Not available
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|  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Edited by Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, Sarah Roberts. Foreword by Neal Benezra. Text by Gary Garrels, Henry Urbach, Sandra S. Phillips, et al. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was founded in 1935. Seventy-five years later, its permanent collection contains numerous masterpieces of world art. This anniversary retrospective includes more than 300 large-scale plates and 50 text >>more
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9780918471840
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Pbk, 10.5 x 12.5 in. / 448 pgs / illust. throughout.
Pub Date: 07/31/2010 Not available
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|  Sargent's Daughters
By Erica E. Hirshler. One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467426
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 TRADE
Clth, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2009 Not available
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|  Sebastiano del Piombo: A Venetian in Rome
Text by Kia Vahland. During his lifetime, painter Sebastiano del Piombo (ca. 1485-1547) was considered, along with Giorgione, the great hope of the Venetian School. Sebastiano later became Raphael's biggest competitor in Rome--he was, in fact, the only Renaissance >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721455
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Hardback, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 96 pgs / 34 color.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available
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|  Segantini
Text by Dieter Bachmann, Guido Magnaguagno, Sam Keller, Ulf Küster. The earliest paintings of Giovanni Segantini (1858-1899) date back to the 1870s, when the artist was still in his native Italy enduring a life of extreme poverty. It was not until he moved to Switzerland, >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727655
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10.75 x 12.5 in. / 165 pgs / 90 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Not available
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|  Senses And Sins
Edited by Jeroen Giltaij. Essays by Alexandra Gaba-van Dongen and Peter Hecht. Elegant ladies in satin robes, maids wearing starched bonnets, and pensive scholars immersed in study--we might think we know a great deal about life and culture in Holland's Golden Age. Yet, the ordered world of >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775715232
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Clothbound, 9 x 11.5 in. / 256 pgs / 110 color / 150 b&w
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available
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|  Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Movement and Balance
Text by Stephen Kurz, Francois Morellet, Astrid von Asten, Karin Schick. The only woman to be represented on a Swiss banknote (the 50-franc note), Sophie Taeuber-Arp was one of the twentieth century's most innovative artists, in painting, sculpture, textiles, dance, architecture and puppetry. Often occupying this >>more
Kerber
ISBN 9783866783201
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 151 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available
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|  Spanish Master Drawings 1500-1900
Essay by Sandra Tatsakis. The combined collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, the Rijksmuseum, the Teylers Museum and the Rijksprentenkabinet in Leiden together contain over 40 drawings by Spanish master artists. The drawings cover more than four centuries >>more
nai010 publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
ISBN 9789056623234
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 32 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2003 Not available
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|  Striking Power
Text by Edward Bleiberg, Stephanie Weissberg. Striking Power—the very first exhibition and publication to explore the history of iconoclasm in ancient Egyptian art—is an in-depth examination of the widespread campaigns of targeted image destruction that periodically swept through ancient Egypt, driven >>more
Pulitzer Arts Foundation/Brooklyn Museum
ISBN 9780997690194
US $19.95 CAN $29.95 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 55 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 Not available
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|  The Art of Gold
By Roberto Lleras, Clara Isabel Botero, Santiago Lodono. Gold held a deep symbolic meaning for the pre-Hispanic cultures of present-day Colombia. Its color and brilliance made it analogous with the Sun and a powerful symbol of fertility. Its physical and chemical properties allowed >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788876247767
US $60.00 CAN $78.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 272 pgs / 246 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2007 Not available
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|  The Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser Collection
Text by Angelika Affentranger-Kirchrath, Margrit Hahnloser-Ingold, Rudolf Koella, Henriette Hahnloser, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Lukas Gloor. As the last embers of Impressionism flickered out amid the early stirrings of the modernist avant garde, the collector couple Arthur and Hedy Hahnloser were on hand to speed French painting's transition into the twentieth >>more
D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers
ISBN 9781935202639
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 12.5 in. / 384 pgs / 250 color / 130 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/31/2011 Not available
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|  The Aztec Empire
Essays by Felipe Solís Olguín, William Sanders, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Michael E. Smith, Carl Taube, Beatriz de la Fuente, Richard Townsend, Phil Weigand and Miguel León Portilla. The Aztecs were the Native American people who dominated northern Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. A nomadic culture, the Aztecs eventually settled on several small islands in >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892073214
US $75.00 CAN $90.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9 x 13 in. / 376 pgs / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 11/02/2004 Not available
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|  The Aztec Empire
Edited by Felipe SolÃs. The Aztec Empire: Catalogue of the Exhibition, organized by Felipe Sol's, the distinguished Curator and Director of the Museo Nacional de Antropolog'a in Mexico City, provides not only a thorough representation of Aztec society at >>more
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892073238
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Paperback, 9 x 13 in. / 80 pgs / 400 color
Pub Date: 06/15/2004 Not available
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|  The Brueghel Dynasty
Edited by Sergio Gaddi, Doron J. Lurie. Text by Klaus Ertz, Giovanni C.F. Villa, Maximiliaan P. J. Martens, Renzo Villa, Nathalie Weiner, Jan de Maere. From the mid-sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries, the Brueghel family dominated Flemish painting. The dynasty began with Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525–1569), who moved to Antwerp in the 1540s, initially becoming known as a >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836624324
US $49.95 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  The Creative Ice Age Brain
By Barbara Olins Alpert. Foreword by Dr. Adam Zeman. A haunting mystery surrounds the magnificent Ice Age art that is found mainly in the caves of Western Europe. In this substantial new study, scholar Barbara Alpert approaches this art using information from psychology and >>more
nyehaus/foundation 20 21
ISBN 9781934171103
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 247 pgs / 35 color / 200 b&w / 10 duotone / 2 tritone.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available
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| |  The Discovery of the Netherlands
Edited by Henk van Os, Huigen Leeflang, Jenny Reynaers. Text by Louise Fresco, Henk van Os. Published concurrently with Holland's inaugural Apeldoorn Garden and Landscape Architecture Triennial, The Discovery of the Netherlands explores how the genre of Dutch landscape painting has played a role in the viewer's appreciation of the landscape. >>more
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056620271
US $40.00 CAN $54.00 TRADE
Hardback, 10.5 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 40 color.
Pub Date: 09/01/2008 Not available
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|  The Garden of Monsieur Monet
Text by Pia Valentinis. Illustrations by Giancarlo Ascari. Claude Monet (1840–1926) was the famous French painter who created a grand and beautiful garden in Giverny, France, filling it with irises, poppies, roses, and, of course, water lilies, which he celebrated in his vast >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781910350195
US $16.95 CAN $24.00 TRADE
Hbk, 7.75 x 11 in. / 32 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 10/06/2015 Not available
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|  The Magic of Things
Edited by Jochen Sander. Of painting's enduring genres, it may be the still life that offers the most brazen opportunities for virtuoso flourish, and that most closely approximates painting itself, as an art of arrangement of color, texture and >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722070
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Hardback, 9.5 x 12 in. / 368 pgs / 246 color / 26 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2008 Not available
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|  The Many Faces of Nefertiti
By Dietrich Wildung. The Egyptian Museum in Berlin devotes an entire room to one of the most spectacular examples of Egyptian sculpture in existence: a limestone and stucco bust of Queen Nefertiti, created around 1340 BC by the >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775734851
US $15.00 CAN $21.50 TRADE
Pbk, 4.75 x 7.5 in. / 128 pgs / 77 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available
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|  The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden
Text by Jochen Sander, Stephan Kemperdinck. Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flémalle (c. 1375-1444), and his pupil Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399-1464) were two of Europe's greatest Northern Renaissance painters, though art history has been slow to >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722599
US $85.00 CAN $100.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 404 pgs / 260 color.
Pub Date: 04/01/2009 Not available
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|  The Master of Flémalle and Rogier van der Weyden: Art to Hear Series
Text by Ursula Vorwerk. Robert Campin, also known as the Master of Flèmalle (c. 1375-1444), and his pupil Rogier van der Weyden (c. 1399-1464) were two of Europe's greatest Northern Renaissance painters, though art history has been slow to >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723657
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 48 pgs / 44 color / / CD-Audio.
Pub Date: 04/01/2009 Not available
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| The Master's Hand
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Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775707855
US $65.00 CAN $75.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 125 color / 50 b&w
Pub Date: 05/02/1999 Not available
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|  The Maya: Voices in Stone
Edited by Alejandra Martínez de Velasco Cortina, María Elena Vega Villalobos. Text by David Stuart, Ana Luisa Izquierdo y de la Cueva, Lynneth S. Lowe Negrón, María Teresa Uriarte Castañeda, Tomás Pérez Suárez, Marciela Ayala Falcón, Alfonso Lacadena García-Gallo, Erik Velásquez García, Nikolai Grube, Ana García Barrios, María Elena Vega Villalobos, Jesús Galindo Trejo, Stanislaw Iwaniszewski, Robert Romero Sandoval, et al. A gorgeously produced volume of over 500 pages, The Maya: Voices in Stone is a breathtaking visual appraisal of the enormous diversity of Mayan culture, buttressed by contributions from the leading contemporary scholars of classical >>more
Turner
ISBN 9788416354870
US $90.00 CAN $120.00 TRADE
Clth, 11.5 x 11.5 in. / 516 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 Not available
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|  The Nude from Gauguin to Bonnard
Edited by Véronique Serrano. Contributions by Gilles Genty, Lawrence Madeline, Aline Magnien, Roberto Mangiù, Elizabeth Pacoud-Rème, Jean-Louis Schefer. Since easel painting began, the figure of Eve has been found in the work of painters from Masaccio to Rubens, Michelangelo, Bosch and Brueghel. The Nude from Gauguin to Bonnard presents nearly 70 works from >>more
Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836626878
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 172 pgs / 152 color.
Pub Date: 06/30/2014 Not available
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|  Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition, this is the first comprehensive survey of the magnificent artistic traditions of the Plains Indians. The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky celebrates the extraordinary beauty, power, and spiritual resonance >>more
Skira Paris
ISBN 9780847844586
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 320 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 Not available
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|  The Poetry Of Everyday Life
Essay by Ronni Baer. Artists include: Balthasar van der Ast, Franz Hals, Jan van der Heyden, Rembrandt, Jacob Ruisdael. Tradition has it that the young American republic had a natural affinity with the 17th-century Dutch oligarchy--they shared concepts of democracy, religious freedom, the rise of the middle class, and a protestant work ethic. Bostonians >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466313
US $40.00 CAN $50.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 10.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 76 color / 14 duotone
Pub Date: 08/02/2002 Not available
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|  The Poetry Of Everyday Life
Artwork by Franz Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Balthasar van der Ast, Jan van der Heyden, Re Rembrandt. Text by Ronni Baer. Now in Paperback Tradition has it that the young American republic had a natural affinity with the 17th-century Dutch oligarchy--they shared concepts of democracy, religious freedom, the rise of the middle class, and a protestant >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466450
US $24.95 CAN $27.50 TRADE
Paperback, 10.5 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / 82 color / 14 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/02/2003 Not available
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|  The Prado Museum
Text by Santiago Alcolea Blanch. New expanded edition! Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rafael Moneo designed the 2007 Prado Museum expansion--the fourth in the Madrid building's 189-year history. In addition to covering Moneo's addition, this generously illustrated volume contains reproductions of nearly >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311763
US $85.00 CAN $112.50 TRADE
Leather bound, 10.25 x 12.25 in. / 408 pgs / 285 color / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/01/2008 Not available
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|  The Secrets of Tomb 10A
Text by Rita E. Freed, Lawrence M. Berman, Denise M. Doxey, Nicholas Picardo. In 1915, a team of American archaeologists in Bersha, Egypt, blasted through solid rock to reach a tomb later to be designated as "10A." Inside this tomb they found a mummy, an exquisitely-painted coffin and >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467471
US $60.00 CAN $70.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 160 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Not available
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|  Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese
Edited by Frederick Ilchman. Text by David Rosand, Frederick Ilchman, Linda Borean, Patricia F. Brown, John Garton, et al. For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters--Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese--overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Venice was then among Europe's richest cities, >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467396
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 304 pgs / 160 color / 10 duotone.
Pub Date: 05/31/2009 Not available
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|  Turks: A Journey Of A Thousand Years, 600-1600
Text by Filiz Cagman. This magnificent book accompanied a spectacular exhibition devoted to the artistic and cultural riches of the Turkic-speaking peoples. Essays by leading scholars trace Turkic history and cultural development, while works of art ranging from painting >>more
Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781903973561
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Cloth, 10.25 x 12.25 / 494 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 03/01/2005 Not available
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|  Recognized as one of the most interesting and vibrant artists of the Edo period, Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797–1861) is a major exponent of ukiyo-e. His fame is tied to the series of polychrome xylographs that illustrate >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857236896
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Hbk, 11 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 10/23/2018 Not available
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|  Velázquez
Text by Santiago Alcolea. Like his Dutch contemporary Vermeer, Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) had little reputation outside of his native land until the nineteenth century, when the Spanish royal painting collections became state property and were installed in the Prado >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311367
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  Venice: From Canaletto and Turner to Monet
Edited by Martin Schwander. Text by Alan Chong, Anne Distel, Gottfried Boehm. Venice was truly a laboratory of perception in the nineteenth century, with its beguiling interplay of light, water, land and architecture. Of course, its fame as a muse for great artists goes further back, but >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775722414
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 182 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 Not available
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|  Vienna 1900
Edited by Barbara Steffen. Text by Christian Meyer, Franz Smola, Beate Susanne Wehr, Barbara Sternthal. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Vienna was one of the six largest cities in the world, recently transformed by rapid industrialization, and by successive waves of immigration from various corners of the Austro-Hungarian >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775726856
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 272 pgs / 276 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2011 Not available
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|  William Blake and Slavery: Mind-forg'd Manacles
Text by David Bindman, Darryl Pinckney. The English poet and artist William Blake (1757-1827) was uncommonly aware of the evils of slavery in his time, having illustrated Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam (1791), John >>more
Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853322594
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Paperback, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 148 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available
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|  William Merritt Chase
Text by Erica E. Hirshler. Praised for his jewel-like landscapes, park scenes, and sympathetic images of women, William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was a leading American Impressionist painter and an influential teacher in the late 19th century. This beautifully illustrated volume >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468393
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 84 pgs / 55 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 Not available
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|  Women Impressionists
Edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer, Max Hollein. Text by Jean-Paul Bouillon, Pamela Ivinski, Sylvie Patry, Ingrid Pfeiffer, Griselda Pollock. The female members of the nineteenth-century Impressionist movement are usually painted out of official art history, although Edouard Manet, for one, testified to the talents of his friends Berthe Morisot (whose “Harbor at Lorient” of >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775720793
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Hardback, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 320 pgs / 274 color / 31b&w.
Pub Date: 04/01/2008 Not available
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|  Zurbarán
Text by Santiago Alcolea i Gil. Starker than Velázquez and more ascetic than El Greco, Francisco Zurbarán (1598-1664) is easily among the finest of seventeenth-century Spanish painters. Apprenticed in Seville, he quickly gravitated toward the use of chiaroscuro, possibly having seen >>more
Ediciones Polígrafa
ISBN 9788434311725
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Hardback, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 128 pgs / 114 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2008 Not available
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