This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and designer of furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, embroidery, and more. It also examines Gimson's significance wi...

Our lives are saturated by color. We live in a world of vivid colors, and color marks our psychological and social existence. But for all color's inescapability, we don't know much about it. Now authors David Scott Kastan and Stephen Farthing offer a...

Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459-1519) crafted a public persona and personal mythology that earned him the romantic sobriquet the "Last Knight" and that perpetuates his legend to this day. In his lifelong quest to establish himself as Europe's n...

This monographic volume offers a selection of Jose Guerrero's finest series in chronological order, from the beginning of his career in 2002 to the year 2020: Thames, La Mancha, Sierra Nevada, New York – Night Lights, Carrara, and others. His work d...

The works of Michelangelo (1475-1564) remain an enduring source of awe and fascination more than 500 years after his death. "Michelangelo: Mind of the Master" offers a new context for understanding the drawings of one of art's greatest visionaries. T...

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) was one of the most important artists of the Barbizon School. Through his publicly exhibited works and their critical reception, Millet was of crucial significance to modernist painters. Millet's modernity is evident...

This volume continues the National Gallery's acclaimed series of Technical Bulletins with a selection of studies across the range of the collection, jointly authored by experts in the field of conservation and the scientific examination of paintings....

The significant collection of 19th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes many important works by artists associated with the Barbizon School. In addition to paintings by Courbet, Millet, and Rousseau, there are over twent...

"Sol negro / Black sun" is the catalogue of a major exhibition at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. The book shows the photographs of 12 Latin American women in its mid career. The discourse of the book is woven from the dark side of life, the si...

In the first half of the twentieth century, a group of American artists influenced by the painter and teacher Robert Henri aimed to reject the pretenses of academic fine art and polite society. Embracing the democratic inclusiveness of the Progressiv...