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Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese Rivals in Renaissance Venice
ISBN: HB: 9780878467396, DAP, MFA Publications, May 2009
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 160 colour illus., 10 duotone
Not for sale in Estonia! For nearly four decades in the sixteenth century, the careers of Venice's three greatest painters – Titan, Tintoretto and Veronese – overlapped, producing mutual influences and bitter rivalries that changed art history. Ven...
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£57,00
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Techniques of Chinese Lacquer
ISBN: PB: 9780892369539, Getty Publications, April 2009
96 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 4 line illus.
This is the first English translation of Filippo Bonanni's acclaimed eighteenth-century treatise on Chinese lacquer. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum (March-May 2009) focusing on the conservation of the Victoria an...
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£25,00
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Thomas Chambers American Landscape and Marine Painter, 1808-1869
ISBN: HB: 9780300141054, Yale University Press, September 2008
160 pp., 22.9x27.9 cm, 110 colour images, 25 black&white illus.
Labeled as a travelling American folk artist when he was rediscovered in the mid-twentieth century, the mysterious Thomas Chambers here receives a fresh and creative reassessment. Although his distinctive land- and seascapes appear in many American c...
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£40,00
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Thomas Hope Designer and Patron in Regency London
ISBN: HB: 9780300124163, Yale University Press, March 2008
448 pp., 31x25 cm, 500 illus.
The son of one of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent that lasted nearly ten years. While travelling, h...
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£60,00
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Thaddeus Strode Absolutes and Nothings
ISBN: HB: 9780936316246, University of Chicago Press, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, March 2008
80 pp., 32.5x24.1 cm, 28 colour plates
Thaddeus Strode's vibrant large-scale paintings are universes unto themselves: wild mash-ups of California surf and skateboard culture, Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, and comic books".Absolutes and Nothings" marks the artist's first ma...
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£22,50
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Taddeo and Federico Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780892369027, Getty Publications, February 2008
144 pp., 25.4x24.8 cm, 95 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
During the late sixteenth-century, successful Italian artist Federico Zuccaro (c. 1541-1609) created one of the period's most important series of drawings – twenty large sheets that depict the early life of his older brother Taddeo (1529-1566). Publi...
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£40,00
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Titian Remade Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art
ISBN: HB: 9780892368730, Getty Publications, August 2007
216 pp., 26.7x19 cm, 26 colour illus., 43 black&white illus.
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 (c. 1488-1576) and his artistic heir, the little known Padov...
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£35,00
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Ted Fair Jubilee
ISBN: HB: 9780970165640, DAP, J&L Books, June 2007
64 pp., 23.5x20.3 cm, 30 colour illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! "Jubliee" is Ted Fair's first book, comprised of color photographs taken between 2000 and 2003 across the United States. The selection of photographs is meant to be read as one would read the lines of a poem; each image off...
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Thomas Chimes Adventures in "Pataphysics"
ISBN: HB: 9780300122176, Yale University Press, April 2007
272 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 155 colour images, 120 black&white illus.
Thomas Chimes (b. 1921) is one of Philadelphia's most important living artists. Tracing the stylistic evolution of Chimes' idiosyncratic art, this handsome book presents a long-overdue survey of his remarkable five-decade career: canvases combining l...
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£40,00
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Tunisian Mosaics Treasures from Roman Africa
ISBN: PB: 9780892368570, Getty Publications, January 2007
144 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 136 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
As the Roman Empire expanded its borders into North Africa, thousands of mosaic floor pavements were designed and created to adorn the town houses and rural estates of the upper classes. As these Roman outpost flourished, so did mosaic art – particul...
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