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Howard Carter Before Tutankhamun

In her fascinating new book, Pitman has written an enthralling micro history of Raphael's painting St. George and the Dragon--as well as the colorful rogue's gallery of historical characters who...

This is the first-ever scholarly publication devoted to the art of Francesco de Mura (1696 1782), one of the greatest painters of the Golden Age of Naples. De Mura, the...

The text includes concise bibliographical details of the artists and a listing of the main publications and collections where their works are to be found. This publication is an essential...

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travels Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his...

Drawing upon the latest discoveries and research, leading scholars unravel the complex stories behind the phenomenal artistic activity of the Middle Ages and into the Reformation across all media, including...

Sixteenth-century Roman presses turned out hundreds of technical treatises and learned discourses written in the vernacular. Covering topics as diverse as the cultivation of silkworms, the lives of the saints,...

A profound, witty, and informative account of the lives of the saints depicted in the devotional art of the Renaissance This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the...

Nigerian art has long been sought after by art collectors in France. Accompanying an important exhibition, Arts of Nigeria in French Private Collections explores Nigeria's rich artistic production through a...

The first full investigation into the symbolic artworks of the Babembe, this richly illustrated monograph presents a particular type of sculpture that the Babembe devoted to their family ancestors. Many...

The first in-depth investigation of Gauguin's portraits, revealing how the artist expanded the possibilities of the genre in new and exciting ways Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and...

A sweeping survey-the first of its kind-of the artistic, cultural, and technological achievements of the vast Seljuq empire Rising from humble origins as Turkic tribesman, the powerful and culturally prolific...

A magnificently produced catalog of the major exhibition at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England. Illustrating 354 Chinese jades from the collection of Brian McElney, the Peony Collection...

Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s

Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements...

In Painting as Medicine in Early Modern Rome, Frances Gage undertakes an in-depth study of the writings of the physician and art critic Giulio Mancini. Using Mancini's unpublished treatises as...

Andy Warhol, a painter and graphic artist, also produced a significant body of film work, including his famous Chelsea Girls. He was equally well known in the late sixties and...

Mashable's 20 Books from 2020 That Make Great GiftsIn the course of making Human Flow, his epic feature documentary about the global refugee crisis, the artist Ai Weiwei and his...

This book showcases Julian Schnabel's diverse body of work from the past three decades and celebrates the scale and virtuosic materiality of his oeuvre. Julian Schnabel is one of the...

This groundbreaking volume explores the epochal transformations and unexpected continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the ninth century. As the period opened, the Empire's southern provinces-the vibrant,...

Sigfried Giedion (1888-1968) and Carola Giedion-Welcker (1893-1979) were among the most influential scholars of art and architectural history during the early twentieth century. Of particular impact was their role in...

Jean-Pierre Vorlet's images are everywhere, taken all over the world but establishing common ground, transferable and translatable. In spite of a snatch of Italian or a word or two in...

For Armin Mueller-Stahl (* 1930) the time that he can spend alone in his studio is liberating: "When I am drawing, time slips out of my body." Born into an...

One of the most important art works produced in late fifteenth-century Spain is the group of twenty-six panels from the altarpiece of the cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo, Castile. The panels...

Small China presents Chinese miniatures from 5,000 BCE up to the fifteenth century. The pocketsized representations of supernatural beings, people, animals, or everyday objects are virtually uncharted in East Asian...

This generously illustrated volume looks at Pop art from an international perspective from its beginnings in the 1950s to its revitalization in the 1980s. Lichtenstein, Warhol, Hamilton, and Hockney are...

A richly illustrated exploration of Ai Weiwei's installation and architecture projects, focusing on the artist's use of space.Outspoken, provocative, and prolific, the artist Ai Weiwei is an international phenomenon. In...

This book, which accompanied a groundbreaking exhibition, presents a multilayered picture of influence and experimentation between a family of artists. A few years before his death in 1984, the conceptual...

This in-depth investigation into the art, politics and murderous cynicism of Renaissance Milan is is an academic detective story sketched out with erudition and journalistic panache. Debunking the outrageous claim...

Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working...

One of the twentieth century's leading Abstract Expressionists, Sam Francis (1923-94) was one of the few visual artists who traversed the globe multiple times during the 1950s and 1960s, becoming...

This book examines the Venetian colonies of the Eastern Mediterranean and how their built environments express the close cultural ties with both Venice and Byzantium. Using the island of Crete...

British artist Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one of the most significant painters working today. Her paintings and works on paper are found in important public and private collections...

Brilliant Isles: Art That Made Us

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec recorded unforgettable images of belle-epoque Paris in his paintings, lithographs, and posters. The posters created by the painter and graphic designer for the Moulin Rouge club in...

In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese...

The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...

Who would have thought that a boy born in 1889 from the Victorian Mallee would become a successful artist on New York's Staten Island? This finely illustrated, exhaustively researched and...

Art was more important than anything else for the founder of modern sculpture, who created sculptures that would enjoy a lasting renown, including The Kiss, The Thinker, and The Burghers...

The best-selling Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones presents a radical new story of British art."Sensations is a riveting story of art and science: thoughtful, provocative and persuasive" - The Times"Erudite,...

'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...

How cubism and Dada radically reimagined the social nature of language, following the utopian poetic vision of Stephane Mallarme.At the outset of the twentieth century, language became a visual medium...

A fascinating, richly illustrated study of the role and significance of ancient statues in Egyptian history and beliefWhy do ancient Egyptian statues so often have their noses, hands, or genitals...

Ferdinand Columbus, son of Christopher Columbus and author of the first published account of a voyage to the New World, was also the owner of one of the largest private...

Following a spectacular surge in interest for Egyptian masters, Modern Art in Egypt fills the void in Egyptian art history, chronicling the lives and legacies of six pioneering artists working...

'One of the hottest memoirs of 2024' Sunday Times StyleA Guardian 'Books to look out for in 2024' pick * A Financial Times 'What to Read in 2024' pick'An art...

A multifaceted exploration of the interplay between civic and military life in ancient RomeThe ancient Romans famously distinguished between civic life in Rome and military matters outside the city-a division...

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....