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Manet to Picasso The National Gallery

Riopelle Christopher, Appleyard Charlotte, Herring Sarah, Ireson Nancy, Robbins Anne

ISBN: PB: 9781857093339, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2007
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 76 colour illus.

This beautiful book provides a brief introduction to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, and early modern paintings made between 1860 and 1905––a highly innovative and exciting time in the history of art––through 38 masterpieces from the remarkable co...

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Gates of Paradise Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece

Radke Gary M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300126150, Yale University Press, July 2007
184 pp., 30.5x19.7 cm, 269 colour illus.

In 1452, Florentine sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti unveiled a masterpiece that had been a quarter-century in the making: ten bronze panels depicting intricate scenes from the Old Testament. The monumental gilded bronze doors (each over 15 feet tall) were...

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Locating Renaissance Art

Richardson Carol M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121889, Yale University Press, March 2007
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

Renaissance art history is traditionally identified with Italian centres of production, and Florence in particular. Instead, this book explores the dynamic interchange between European artistic centres and artists and the trade in works of art. It al...

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Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820

Rishell Joseph J., Stratton-Pruitt Suzanne, Bailey Gauvin Alexander, Bargellini Clara, Blum Dilys E., Hill Boone Elizabeth, Burke Marcus B., Codding Mitchell A., Crespo Alfonso Ortiz, Cummins Thomas B. F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300120035, Yale University Press, September 2006
600 pp., 31.1x25.8 cm, 400 colour images, 250 black&white illus.

By the end of the sixteenth century, Europe, Africa, and Asia were connected to North and South America via a vast network of complex trade routes. This led, in turn, to dynamic cultural exchanges between these continents and a proliferation of diver...

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Masaccio Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece

Rowlands Eliot W.

ISBN: PB: 9780892362868, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 29 colour illus., 47 black&white illus.

Ranked by many scholars as the greatest master of early Italian Renaissance painting, Masaccio (1401-1428) was the first artist to use effects of light to create three-dimensional images on a two-dimensional plane. This achievement, revolutionary in...

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Early Netherlandish Paintings Rediscovery, Reception and Research

Ridderbos Bernhard, van Buren Anne, van Veen Henk

ISBN: HB: 9780892368167, Getty Publications, October 2005
481 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 118 black&white illus., 52 colour illus.

In the fifteenth century, a number of master painters, including Jan van Eyck and Roger Campin, flourished in the Netherlands. However, by the early nineteenth century many of their works had been dispersed by the upheavals of the French Revolution....

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Art of Stained Glass

Rousseau Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781589660076, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, April 2005
135 pp., 29.3x21.6 cm

Stained glass windows were part of church building practices in Northeastern Pennsylvania during its boom years in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book celebrates the religious significance, artistic beauty, and regional impor...

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Smart Collecting Acquisitions 1990-2004, Celebrating the Thirtieth Anniversary of the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art

Rorschach Kimerly

ISBN: PB: 9780935573411, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, July 2004
224 pp., 26.7x20.8 cm, 128 colour plates

The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago celebrates its thirtieth anniversary with this lively and richly illustrated catalog of recent acquisitions by the museum. Published in conjunction with the museum's "Smart Collect...

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Medieval Painting in Bohemia

Royt Jan

ISBN: HB: 9788024602660, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, April 2003
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 80 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Originally published in Czech in 2002 and now available in English, "Medieval Painting in Bohemia" assesses the history of painting in Bohemia and Moravia from the emergence of the Czech s...

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Brush With Nature The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches (Revised Edition)

Riopelle Christopher, Bray Xavier

ISBN: HB: 9781857099980, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2003
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 20 black&white illus., 101 colour illus.

More than forty years ago, John and Charlotte Gere, both distinguished art historians, pioneered the collecting of small-scale landscape oil sketches created by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists working out of doors in nature. Such paintings...

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