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Master of Shadows: The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter
The true story of how seventeenth-century Europe's most famous painter doubled as a secret agent and negotiated a peace between superpowers.Peter Paul Rubens is best remembered as the Old Master...
Tiepolo: Vicentine Villas
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The book titled Tiepolo: Vicentine Villas by the author Maria Elisa Avagnina. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Scandinavian Painters
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In the decades around the turn of the century, artists from Scandinavia painted pictures full of atmosphere and inventiveness that had an intimate familiarity with their homeland. Christiane Redau presents...
Kandinsky
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The book titled Kandinsky by the author Dutching. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Botticelli: A Tuscan Spring
The celebrated allegorical paintings "La Primavera" and "The Birth of Venus" were the source of Botticelli's rediscovery in both the 16th and 19th centuries, and are still regarded as apogees...
Painting Animals in Watercolour
Artists seem compelled to try to capture the amazing variety of the animal kingdom; the challenge remains how to breathe energy into your paintings and make the animals jump off...
Klee
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The book titled Klee by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
TISSOT
James Tissot is one of a small group of Victorian artists whose work is even more popular today than in his own lifetime, his paintings of elegant women in superb...
ALMA TADEMA
The paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) reveal more about 19th century taste than those of any other artist of the era. His elaborate reconstructions of ancient Rome depicting elegant...
Natural History Illustration in Pen and Ink: Combine science with art,
This beautiful book combines the author's extensive ecological knowledge with art, and her passion for drawing with ink. It is packed with clear instruction and inspirational illustrations, and will be...
Northern European Paintings
A substantial catalogue of the vast holdings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. More than 150 works of art are presented and explicated by Peter C. Sutton, a former curator...
Image and Imagination: Georgia O'Keeffe
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On the occasion of Georgia O'Keeffe's 80th birthday in 1966, Life magazine dispatched photographer John Loengard to her home in New Mexico to document a day in the life of...
The Art of Arousal: A Celebration of Erotic Art Throughout History
A delightful tour through the sensual side of fine art, from America's favourite sex therapist. This irresistible volume presents 130 of the most engagingly erotic paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings...
Treasures of the National Gallery, London
The book titled Treasures of the National Gallery, London by the author Erika Langmuir. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Step by Step - Watercolour
The book titled Step by Step - Watercolour by the author Patricia Monahan. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Leonardo Da Vinci
The book titled Leonardo Da Vinci by the author Sir Kenneth Clark. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Appreciating Art: An Expert Companion
Beautiful reproductions of over 200 masterpieces from classical to contemporary; an accessible text that focuses on appreciating, understanding and enjoying paintings; appreciation panels to illuminate understanding and interpretation of key...
Impressionists A Retrospectiv Kapos, Martha
The book titled Impressionists A Retrospectiv Kapos, Martha by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Betty Swanwick: Artist and Visionary
This monograph intends to rectify the neglect of a visionary twentieth century British artist in the tradition of William Blake and Samuel Palmer. A friend and pupil of Edward Bawden,...
G.F. Watts Portraits
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The book titled G.F. Watts Portraits by the author Barbara Bryant. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool) and Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), this volume explores the life and work of nineteenth-century English painter Dante Gabriel...
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Power & Brilliance
Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the pre-eminent portraitist of the Regency period, depicting monarchs, political leaders, aristocratic families, society beauties, and actresses with bravura flair. This important book explores Lawrence's...
Sir Thomas Lawrence: The Artist
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Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769 - 1830) was the most gifted and successful British portrait painter in the generation following Gainsborough and Reynolds, and his pre-eminence was publicly confirmed when he...
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse 1850-1950
The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in...
At Home in the World: A Memoir: Ibrahim El-Salahi
For more than a half century, Ibrahim El-Salahi has been at the forefront of African modernism in the visual arts. A renowned artist, writer, critic, and teacher, El-Salahi continues to...
Andre Marfaing: Paintings 1948-1986
Andre Marfaing (1925-87) was a French non-figurative painter and printmaker associated with abstract art and informalism. This catalogue raisonne of is a complete repertory of his painted work, from his...
Stacey Gillian Abe: Shrub-let of Old Ayivu
The debut monograph of Stacey Gillian Abe's work is created to accompany her first London solo show at Unit London. Featuring works spanning her career to date, the book explores...
Parlour Cats: A Victorian Celebration
Victoriana and cats-it's a natural marriage. Celebrating the era when mousers, tabbies, and toms were swept off the farm and cherished with a passion unrivaled since ancient Egypt, "Parlor Cats"...
Painting China and Porcelain
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From selecting materials to firing the final results, this book guides readers through the techniques of china painting. Each stage is explained and illustrated in detail, with a view to...
Lorenzo Lotto: The Frescoes in the Oratorio Suardi at Trescore
In 1524, Count Giovan Battista Suardi commissioned Lorenzo Lotto to decorate the private chapel in his country home at Trescore Balneario, Bergamo. Published on the occasion of the touring exhibition...
Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years
Between mysticism and modernity: the magical surrealism of Remedios Varo. Remedios Varo: The Mexican Years offers a definitive survey of the life and work of a singularly appealing and mysterious...
Albrecht Durer
Now available in a new edition, this lavishly illustrated volume draws on the latest research to present an exciting new interpretation of Albrecht Durer, both as a man and as...
Daniel Buren. CRISS-CROSS
This monograph is unusual in bringing the voices from a wide range of people - writers, curators, gallerists, collectors, colleagues, art critics - who have given way to and influenced...
Emma Stibbon: Melting Ice / Rising Tides
Working principally in drawing and print media on paper, Emma Stibbon RA (b. 1962) depicts landscapes and environments that are undergoing dynamic transformation, among them the polar regions, volcanic areas,...
A Painter and a Poet: Conversations in Colour
This beautiful book, of paintings by Alice Mumford and poems by Sue Leigh, brings together exciting new work from the two makers. Collaboration is perhaps not the right word for...
Masterpieces of Italian Painting
"This illustrated book presents one of the great collections of Italian paintings in North America, and includes major works dating from the twelfth through the eighteenth centuries." "The volume presents...
Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits: Old Masters Reimagined
Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits gathers the essential works by one of the most beguiling artists of the present era, in a very modern reinterpretation of historical privilege. Using only elements...
British Paintings 1880-1980
This catalogue brings together one hundred years of British Painting, from 1880 1980. Women are at the forefront: the essential process of rewriting their work into the narrative continues.
Titian Remade - Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern
This insightful volume explores the use of imitation and the modern cult of originality through a consideration of the disparate fates of two Venetian painters - the canonized master Titian...
The Cut-Ups 2: More Tattoo Flash from the Third Mind
A collection of over 100 hand-painted tattoo flash designs by Brian Kelly, showcasing innovative cut-up techniques and traditional artistry methods for tattoo enthusiasts and artists. Dive into the vibrant and...
Art Journal # 53 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 53)
The book titled Art Journal # 53 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 53) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Art Journal # 52 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 52)
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The book titled Art Journal # 52 (Art Journal of the National Gallery of Victoria, 52) by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...
Palma Vecchio
Palma Vecchio (1480-1528) was a leading painter of the italian Renaissance in Venice. As a contemporary of Titian, his short career unfolded at the beginning of the sixteenth century, the...
Piero Della Francesca
Piero della Francesca has long been admired as one of the greatest of all Renaissance painters. Much archival and technical work has been done concerning him and his work (including...
Dali
The book titled Dali by the author Gilles Neret. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains: Huang Gongwang
The series of Collection of Ancient Calligraphy and Painting Handscrolls: Paintings has a large time span, rich themes and diverse styles. It selects 10 paintings from the last five dynasties...
Houghton Revisited
n 1779 the family of Sir Robert Walpole, Britain's first prime minister, sold his remarkable art collection to Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia. More than two centuries later, these...
Florence: The Paintings & Frescoes, 1250-1743
Every painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, The Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many or most of the...