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This text presents an overview of one of the most fertile and exuberant periods in the history of art. It embraces not only the UK but also the English-speaking countries...

This work makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions of Renaissance artists about their viewers. The...

From its twin sources in high Swiss alps to its delta in the North Sea, the Rhine is Europe's most important river - historically, culturally and artistically. Flowing majestically through...

This book clarifies and amplifies our understanding of the art of the Spanish Enlightenment by offering an integrated view of the artists working in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Spain, both foreign and...

Accompanying an exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, this catalogue explores one of the most important but historically neglected painters of the Italian Renaissance, Carlo Crivelli (c.1435-c.1495)....

The book titled Veronese: Pocket Book by the author . This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

David Gentleman has been drawing London all his adult life. But can you look afresh at the place where you live? Over the past year he has immersed himself in...

The perfect introduction to the city's architectural heritage, Barcelona Sketchbook gives visitors and residents insight into a wealth of sights, both grand and intimate in scale. Many facets of the...

A catalogue covering all the Spanish paintings in the National Gallery with revised listings of all new acquisitions procured since 1970. Each entry includes details of condition, technique and place...

The Glasgow Style is the name given to the work of a group of young designers and architects working in Glasgow from 1890-1914. At its centre were four young friends...

This book focuses on a puzzling but ubiquitous feature of Renaissance art: continuous narrative, in which several episodes, each including the characters, are shown in a single space or setting....

Vasari's Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, and Architects are and always have been central texts for the study of the Italian Renaissance. They can and should be read in many...

The book titled Duccio by the author Andrear Weber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For forty years, botanical artist Philippa Nikulinsky has been sharing her love of wild places through her painting. Now in her first collaboration on a book with her husband Alex...

This is a journey back in time through the most beautiful city in the world, by the artist, whose works have fixed it forever in the popular imagination. The book...

These handsomely illustrated volumes offer insight into the lives and works of those few unique individuals whose extraordinary creative genius has affected suceeding generations of artists and altered the way...

John Ruskin was the first art critic to make his reputation by championing contemporary art: first by defending Turner, in his book Modern Painters, and then by giving his decisive...

Much has been written about the identity of the sitter in this portrait. In 1568, Vasari noted that Pontormo painted a beautiful work, a portrait of Francesco Guardi. In 1612,...

Peter Booth conveys his feelings about human nature and the environment through his paintings and drawings.

This catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, focuses on 32 of the paintings by Guercino remaining in Britain, most of which are illustrated in colour. It...

The book titled Leonardo Da Vinci: The Marvellous Works of Nature and Man by the author Mr Martin Kemp. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information...

Inventing Leonardo is a brilliant wide-ranging study of Leonardo's place in cultural history and his relevance to our twentieth-century way of perceiving and interpreting the world. The book opens with...

This is the first full-scale study of the artist, his career and his key contribution to the 17th century Bolognese school of painting. Beginning with an account of Albani's life...

Rosso Fiorentino is one of the most original and difficult painters of the entire Renaissance period, and a crucial figure among the so-called Mannerists. This account of the life and...

'When Matisse dies, Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is.' Picasso said this in the 1950s, when he and Chagall were eminent neighbours living...

The book titled The Complete Paintings by the author Piero della Francesca. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

This overview of the artist's life and work examines more than fifty years of painting and drawing.

This is the first book published in forty years featuring the painted facades of Florentine palaces. A topic of enormous interest since Florence is one of the most visited and...

This book offers an analysis of Giotto's painted architecture, focusing on issues of structural logic, clarity of composition, and its role within the narrative of the painting. Giotto was the...

Some of the finest views of Paris ever painted were produced by British artists working in watercolor in the early nineteenth century. With the ending of many years of war,...

Bernardo Bellotto's magnificent View of the Grand Canal provides a rich visual record of life in eighteenth-century Venice. This painting-one of the most popular in the Getty Museum-is so sweeping...

A criticial look at Pontormo's baroque works emphasizes his idealism as opposed to realism, and his interpretations of biblical events and human nature on canvas and in plaster

Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of...

The Chapel of Eleonora was the first painted chapel to be commissioned by the Medici in the 16th century. Was the chapel a gift from Duke Cosimo to his bride,...

Paolo Uccello's works have long fascinated the public; yet academic opinion has been uncomfortable with his status as a Renaissance artist. His often fantastical compositions, his experiments with perspective, his...

The book titled Van Gogh by the author Meyer Schapiro. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Definitive in its scholarship and thrilling in its scope, this lavishly illustrated volume offers the first book-length study of Luca Signorelli (1450-1523), sometimes described as the "least-known major artist" of...

A LIFE OF HENRI MATISSE- VOLUME ONE, 1869-1908 'Spurling's account of Matisse's first forty years is gripping, full of shocks and colour, judicious and informative' A.S. Byatt, Guardian 'A terrific...

The life of Sandro Botticelli coincided with the close of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th, a period that saw transition from the rule of the Medici,...

At the turn of the twenty-first century, many felt sceptical or confused about painting's on-going cultural relevance. In this context, Julian Bell's What is Painting? provided an accessible and inspired...

The book titled The Musee Picasso, Paris: v. 2: Drawings, Watercolours, Gouaches, by the author Michele Richet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In the city of Ferrara, a major cultural and artistic centre of Renaissance Italy, Cosme Tura (c. 1430-1495) came to prominence as painter to the Este court. This book offers...

The book titled Modern Painters by the author John Ruskin. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Roy de Maistre left Australia and its lack of acceptance of his modernist style, and pursued a career in England. Although he never reached the forefront of the avant-garde, he...

As part of the year in honour of Poland, the Louvre displays, from 5 October 2004 to 10 January 2005 a number of works depicting the city of Warsaw by...