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Make a Joyful Noise Renaissance Art and Music at Florence Cathedral

Radke Gary M., Giacomelli Gabriele, Macey Patrick, Tacconi Marica, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300209181, Yale University Press, November 2014
104 pp., 30.5x18.7 cm, 80 colour illus.

Florence Cathedral, familiarly called Il Duomo, is an architectural masterpiece and home to celebrated works of art. The interrelationship between the brilliant art and architecture and the Cathedral's musical programme is explored in depth in this b...

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Manet Paints Monet A Summer in Argenteuil

Sauerlander Willibald, Dollenmayer David

ISBN: HB: 9781606064283, Getty Publications, November 2014
80 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm, 30 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating look at one of the defining images of the Impressionist movement".Manet Paints Monet" focuses on an auspicious moment in the history of art. In the summer of 1874, Edouard Manet (1832-1883) and Claude Monet (1840-1926), two outs...

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Decorative Arts

Berthouville Silver Treasure and Roman Luxury

Lapatin Kenneth

ISBN: HB: 9781606064207, Getty Publications, November 2014
224 pp., 28.7x23.6 cm, 98 colour illus., 21 black&white illus.

This sumpluously illustrated and elegantly produced volume unveils an ancient treasure to modern-day readers. In 1830 a farmer ploughing a field near the village of Berthouville in Normandy, discovered a trave of ancient Roman silver objects weighing...

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Brilliant History of Color in Art

Finlay Victoria

ISBN: HB: 9781606064290, Getty Publications, November 2014
166 pp., 25.9x23.6 cm, 166 colour illus.

This is a irresistible and wonderfully illustrated exploration of the history of colour in art. The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. And what a fascinating story they tell together: one that brims with an all-star cast of cha...

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Art of the American West The Haub Family Collection at Tacoma Art Museum

Fry Laura F., Hassrick Peter H., Stevens Scott Manning, Stebich Stephanie A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207606, Yale University Press, November 2014
312 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

This handsome book displays an extraordinary breadth of masterworks dating from the 1790s to the present, including over 140 artists in some 350 beautiful colour reproductions. In a variety of media and styles, iconic American artists including Frede...

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Nothing but the Clouds Unchanged Artists in World War I

Hughes Gordon, Blom Philipp

ISBN: HB: 9781606064313, Getty Publications, November 2014
192 pp., 26.2x21 cm, 67 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating and superbly illustrated look at how the First World War influenced an entire generation of visual artists. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destructio...

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Treasures from India

Haidar Navina Najat

ISBN: HB: 9780300208870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2014
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

India's rich tradition of jewelled arts has produced extravagant and opulent creations that range from ornaments for every part of the body to ceremonial court objects such as boxes, daggers and thrones. Starting with the Mughal rulers of India (1526...

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Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Camfield William A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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American Paintings at Harvard Volume 1: Paintings, Watercolors and Pastels by Artists Born Before 1826

Stebbins Theodore E., Renn Melissa, Anderson Virginia, Blunt Hannah, Grindlay Sandra, Lowrey Carol, Moore Charlotte Emans, Moore Kevin, Orcutt Kimberly, Polemis Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300153521, Yale University Press, November 2014
656 pp., 29.8x24.1 cm, 554 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolours, pastels and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Por...

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Strokes of Genius Italian Drawings from the Goldman Collection

McCullagh Suzanne Folds, Goldman Jeanette, Schwed Nicolas

ISBN: HB: 9780300207774, Yale University Press, A+D Series, November 2014
176 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 120 colour illus.

This catalogue presents more than fifty masterful Italian drawings from the 16th and 17th centuries: working drawings, preparatory sketches, and finished compositions that have been added in recent years to the private collection of Jean and Steven G...

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