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Venice Sketchbook
Showcases the grand attractions and hidden charms of the romantic city of Venice. Through the watercolour paintings and pencil sketches of artist Fabrice Moireau, and the entrancing stories fo the...
Pastels for Beginners
Whether your preferred medium is canvas or paper, wood or stone, this reasonably priced series of books for beginners demonstrates fascinating drawing, painting and design techniques for a variety of...
Christchurch: an Artists Tribute
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Denis Robinson has compiled a moving tribute to Christchurch with a collection of paintings of the city as it was before the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011. He approached...
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...
The Louvre: All The Paintings
Immerse yourself in the wonder and dazzling display of 3,000 paintings in the permanent collection of the Louvre with this stunning slipcased edition of the New York Times bestselling book...
The Royal Collection: Paintings from Windsor Castle
The book titled The Royal Collection: Paintings from Windsor Castle by the author Christopher Lloyd. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information.
Kubra Khademi (Multi-lingual edition): Political Bodies
The artist Kubra Khademi (b. 1989) lives in Paris and focuses in her work on her life as a woman and a person with direct experience as a refugee. This...
Self as a Stranger: Simon Lewty
Artist Simon Lewty is known for his large scale and intensely detailed works where the layering of text and image serve to create a dream-like reality. Narrative is rarely followed...
Rose Wylie: painting a noun...
Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence from a wide range of popular culture. Here her newest body of work references...
After Raphael: Painting in Central Italy in the Sixteenth Century
After Raphael is the first overview of sixteenth-century Italian painting to be published in over thirty years. Reevaluating the paintings of Raphael, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Bronzino and their followers in the...
The Gallery Companion: Understanding Western Art
'Every picture tells a story' - but for many of us the subjects and themes of the great paintings of Western art are something of a mystery. The Gallery Companion...
Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art
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The wall paintings and reliefs of ancient Egyptian tombs and temples record a continuity of customs and beliefs over nearly 3000 years. Even the artistic style of the scenes seems...
The Arts in Spain
From prehistory to postmodernism, the arts in Spain have occupied a powerful and influential role in the development of Western art. This wide-ranging and incisive overview traces the history of...
Venetian Colour: Marble, Mosaic, Painting and Glass, 1250-1550
While the importance of color to the Venetian pictorial tradition has been almost endlessly observed and discoursed upon, never before has this critical topic received so wide-ranging, perceptive, and original...
Colour of Time: Life and Works of Claude Monet
The book titled Colour of Time: Life and Works of Claude Monet. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Romanesque Wall Painting in Central France: The Politics of Narrative
Monumental wall painting once embellished countless rural churches throughout France during the 11th and 12th centuries. In this book, Marcia Kupfer focuses on the rich, stylistically diverse group of fresco...
Painter and Priest: Giovanni Canavesio's Visual Rhetoric and the
Giovanni Canavesio, a Piedmontese artist-priest active in the last decades of the fifteenth century in the southern Alps, left behind a significant body of work, including pictorial cycles and altarpieces....
Xenia Hausner: True Lies
Xenia Hausner ranks among the most important Austrian painters of our time. This splendid volume focuses on the aspect of stagecraft which characterizes all her works. Starting from the early...
Picasso
One name in the history of the 20th century art stands out over all others: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). As painter, graphic artist and sculptor, he displayed an inventive enterprise and...
The Sale of the Late King's Goods: Charles I and his Art Collection
A dazzling and authoritative account of the acquisition and subsequent sale of King Charles I's great art collection, a collection which - ultimately - cost him his throne 'So wonderful...
Italian Painting Before 1400
An examination of the techniques and materials of a group of early Italian panel drawings. The authors survey the primarily religious function of these works and the professional context in...
Italian Frescoes: The High Renaissance and Mannerism
Following the success of the previous volumes in this extraordinary Series (The Early Renaissance and The Flowering of the Renaissance), Italian Frescoes: The High Renaissance to the Early Baroque presents...
Carlo Crivelli
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Carlo Crivelli (c. 1430 - 1495) is a painter whose individuality of style and mastery of powerful line have fascinated many, but whose life and art have remained enigmatic. This...
Italian Altarpieces, 1250-1550
Since the 1960s, the Italian altarpiece has attracted much scholarly attention, bringing liturgical, social and technical considerations to bear on the subject. The eight contributors to this book provide a...
The New African Portraiture: The Shariat Collections
This catalogue brings together leading figures from a generation of thrilling figurative artists of African origin. The more than 20 artists shown in this catalogue are based on the African...
Forests, Woods and Groves: Art from the Arborealists
A stunning collection of artwork from the Arborealists, a group of highly-skilled artists who feature trees, forests and woodland as their most vital subjects. The Arborealists' diverse and influential work...
The Art of Sally Morgan
Sally Morgan is one of Australia's most dynamic Aboriginal artists. Her work is bold, vibrant and provocative. This is the first published collection of her work, exhibited in Australia and...
Frank Auerbach: Speaking and Painting
Born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish parents, the eight-year-old Auerbach was sent to England in 1939 to escape the Nazi regime. His parents stayed behind and died in a...
See What You're Missing: 31 Ways Artists Notice the World - and How
The internationally bestselling author on how art can help us appreciate life in all its strange and exhilarating beauty Artists have learnt to pay attention. The rest of us spend...
Epstein: A Biography
Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) ranks among the finest and most influential sculptors of this century. This biography traces his often turbulent private life and assesses his sculpture and paintings. It also...
A Life Of Picasso Volume I: 1881-1906
A Life of Picasso magnificently combines meticulous scholarship with irrestible narrative appeal. John Richardson draws on his close friendship with Picasso, his own diaries, with the collaboration of picasso's widow...
Acrylic Painting Kit: A Complete Painting Kit for Beginners -
Explore the exciting art of acrylic painting with this all-in-one kit-complete with all the tools, materials, and instructions you need to get started. The Acrylic Painting Kit makes it easy...
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
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are you experienced?
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition of the same name, on view at the Art Gallery of Hamilton through summer and fall 2015, curated by Melissa Bennett, Curator of Contemporary Art...
A Complete Guide to Chinese Brush Painting: Ink, Paper, Inspiration -
Paint the classic subjects that inspired ancient Chinese masters. This book introduces the venerable art of painting with ink on rice paper using traditional techniques developed over a thousand years...
The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice
The painting and carving of altarpieces was one of the most important and characteristic tasks of Italian Renaissance artists. This book focuses on Venice from 1450 to 1530. Peter Humfrey,...
Manet:Initial M, Hand and Eye: "Initial M, Hand and Eye"
Few artists have created as much controversy or survived it with greater fame than Edouard Manet. In his day, the avant-garde was not only a challenge to the traditions of...
Painting Flowers on Silk
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The book titled Painting Flowers on Silk by the author Lydie Ottelart. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
The Art of Painting on Silk: v. 2: Soft Furnishings
Includes natural, modern, and abstract designs applied to items such as screens, lampshades and cushions.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...