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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...

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...

Numerous great works have been created within the realm of Christian art, but none has received as much acclaim as Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper". Art lovers venerate it for...

In this richly illustrated book Professor Bernard Smith, who is often referred to as 'the father of art history in Australia', condenses the arguments presented in an earlier publication Modernism's...

An exhibition publication featuring curatorial essays and artwork images

Published to accompany the V&A's major spring exhibition, Botticelli Reimagined, 5 March to 3 July 2016 The Florentine painter Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510) is one of the greatest artists of all...

A towering figure in 19th-century art, Degas is best known as a painter and chronicler of the ballet. In the 1870s, during an era of enthusiasm for experimental printmaking, Degas...

Albert Tucker is one of the major figures in a group of exceptional painters which includes Sidney Nolan and Arthur Boyd, who, during the 1940s in Melbourne caused an artistic...

A fully illustrated catalogue reproducing all the works in John Brack's first retrospective in over 20 years. It surveys the artist's complete oeuvre, now regarded as some of the most...

Giovanni Antonio Canal (1697-1768), known as Canaletto, is one of the most popular of all old master painters. His views of Venice and London are much celebrated and admired. First...

Have you ever looked at a painting by Holbein, or Titian, or Matisse, and wondered 'How was that done?' Taking a practical rather than a theoretical approach to appreciating art,...

Ten-year-old Jan Senbergs landed with his family in Melbourne in 1950, driven by tragic and violent events in the closing months of World War II from his native Latvia. His...

Like Rembrandt, Cezanne also inserted his own image into narrative paintings, in particular a deeply revealing series from the late 1860s and 1870s. By his final years Cezanne had quelled...

Landscape painting in Australia in the 19th century is important both as an expression of colonists' attitudes to the country they had only recently settled and as a record of...

This fascinating exploration of Leonardo's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses...

In this comprehensive introduction, which in cludes a biography, the author discusses the place of pastel in Delacroix''s oeuvre, from his first school exercise book to his last, finely wrought...

With a contribution spanning half a century, John Perceval has earned a place in the front rank of Australia's leading painters. This book, the first major publication on Perceval's painting,...

Celebrates the riches of the NMM's 17th century Netherlandish collection Essays by experts from the Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum, the Rijksmuseum, and the University of Virginia Publishing alongside the opening of the...

Much has been written about Georgia O'Keeffe in recent years, but much remains to be said. In this sympathetic biography, Dr Peters aims cast a clear new light on how...

The English romantic painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) is known and admired for portraying the transcendent power and turbulence of nature in his paintings of landscapes and storms at sea. But,...

Painting is enjoying a remarkable creative renaissance in the 21st century. Many of the world's leading artists now work in this most enduring and seductive of media. 100 Painters of...

This book traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. It covers various areas including works...

One of the Great Modern Masters series of monographs on 20th-century artists, this volume offers an introduction to Paul Klee, reproducing major works from all periods of his career. At...

The painter, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer, and this collection of his letters provides both a self-portrait and a picture of the contemporary cultural scene. The...

The personalities and careers of Victorian artists, and their social and intellectual context, are explored in this account, which aims to reveal how they blended foreign influences with the native...

McIntyre traces Joshua Reynolds' journey from his humble origins as the seventh child of the Reverend Samuel Reynolds in Devon to the splendour and pomp of his funeral at St...

"Turner, Whistler, Monet" provides a fascinating portrait of three artists who broke away from artistic tradition to embrace an entirely new way of painting. This book uncovers their legacy at...

One of a series of monographs on great 20th-century artists, this title is concerned with Oskar Kokoschka, a major figure in the Expresionist movement. After studying in Vienna, where he...

William Hogarth (1697-1764) is certainly one of the most versatile, innovative and celebrated of all British artists. He lived at a time when Britain was emerging as an increasingly urbanized,...

Carla Rachman's clear and engaging account offers an accessible introduction to Claude Monet's life and art, analysing the works themselves and also the social basis for the shifts in taste...

Amid the background of social turbulence in the mid-nineteenth century, Gustave Courbet's unconventional paintings of real people in everyday scenes came to embody values with radical political implications. James Rubin...

Born on September 5, 1935, Maria de la Concepcion, nicknamed Maya, was Pablo Picasso's first daughter. This book, exhibition catalog for the Picasso Museum in Paris, highlights the artist's relationship...