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Paintings and Drawings in the Wrightsman Collection

Fahy Everett, Rosenberg Pierre, Barker Elizabeth E., Goldner George, Ives Colta, Rewald Sabine, Stein Perrin, Tinterow Gary

ISBN: HB: 9780300107197, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2005
320 pp., 28x22.8 cm, 180 colour illus.

This lavish catalogue presents 150 European paintings, pastels, and drawings from the late fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth century that have been given to the Metropolitan Museum by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman or are still held in Mrs. Wrightsman...

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After Sir Joshua, Volume 15 Essays on British Art and Cultural History

Wendorf Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300107340, Yale University Press, July 2005
256 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour images, 26 black&white illus.

Following in the methodological footsteps of his prize-winning Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society, Richard Wendorf's new book on British art in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is an experiment in cultural history, combining the analy...

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French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Morris Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300106893, Yale University Press, July 2005
384 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 160 illus.

Early in the nineteenth century French art was largely rejected by British artists, critics and patrons. This rejection reflected both constant political opposition to France over the preceding 130 years and the growth of cultural nationalism in Brit...

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Nationalism and French Visual Culture, 1870-1914

Hargrove June, McWilliam Neil

ISBN: HB: 9780300107555, Yale University Press, June 2005
336 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 17 colour images, 144 black&white illus.

Between its defeat in the Franco-Prussian War and the outbreak of World War I, France experienced a tremendous rise in populist nationalism, the aftershocks of which can still be felt today. In examining the forces that shaped the arts of this period...

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Retratos 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits

Oettinger Marion Jr., Bretos Miguel A., Kinder Carr Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300106275, Yale University Press, January 2005
300 pp., 30.4x24.8 cm, 250 illus.

The tradition of portraiture in Latin America is astonishingly long and rich. For over 2,000 years, portraits have been used to preserve the memory of the deceased, bolster the social standing of the aristocracy, mark the deeds of the mighty, advance...

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Men at Work Art and Labour in Mid-Victorian Britain

Barringer Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300103809, Yale University Press, January 2005
392 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 33 colour images, 113 black&white illus.

For artists of the increasingly mechanized Victorian age, questions about the meaning and value of labour presented a series of urgent problems: Is work a moral obligation or a religious duty? Must labour be the preserve of men alone? Does the amount...

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Pelican History of Art

Flemish Art and Architecture 1585-1700

Vlieghe Hans

ISBN: PB: 9780300104691, Yale University Press, December 2004
288 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 100 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

This beautifully illustrated book provides a complete overview of the art of the Southern Netherlands from 1585 to 1700. The author examines the development of Flemish and specifically Antwerp painting, the work of Rubens and other leading masters, a...

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Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume I

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099089, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2004
448 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic in...

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From Mind, Heart and Hand Persian, Turkish and Indian Drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection

Welch Stuart Cary, Masteller Kimberly

ISBN: HB: 9780300104738, Yale University Press, October 2004
272 pp., 28.9x23.3 cm, 19 illustration, 116 colour illus.

Stuart Cary Welch's collection of Persian, Turkish, and Indian art is renowned throughout the world for its quality and depth. In 1999, Welch made a generous gift of drawings to the Harvard University Art Museums, which form the basis of the present...

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G. F. Watts The Last Great Victorian

Gould Veronica

ISBN: HB: 9780300105773, Yale University Press, October 2004
480 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 200 black&white illus.

George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first...

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