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Butterfly Journey Maria Sibylla Merian. Artist and Scientist

Friedewald Boris

ISBN: HB: 9783791381497, Prestel Publishing, July 2015
144 pp., 18.5x14 cm, 70 colour illus.

The amazing story of the life and work of the renowned botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian is told alongside her beautiful illustrations of butterflies in this charming and elegant book. A woman ahead of her time, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)...

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Architecture

Becoming an Architect in Renaissance Italy Art, Science, and the Career of Baldassarre Peruzzi

Huppert Ann C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203950, Yale University Press, June 2015
240 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 35 colour illus., 140 black&white illus.

A leading architect of the Italian Renaissance, Baldassarre Peruzzi (1481-1536) has, until now, been a little-known, enigmatic figure. A paucity of biographical documentation and a modest number of surviving buildings, coupled with an undeservedly cr...

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Buddhist Art of Myanmar

Fraser-Lu Sylvia, Stadtner Donald M., Chain U Tun Aung, Leider Jacques, Pranke Patrick, Brown Robert, Tan Heidi, Proser Adriana

ISBN: HB: 9780300209457, Yale University Press, March 2015
272 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The practice of Buddhism in Myanmar (Burma) has resulted in the production of dazzling objects since the 5th century. This landmark publication presents the first overview of these magnificent works of art from major museums in Myanmar and collection...

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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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Benjamin-Constant Marvels and Mirages of Orientalism

Bondil Nathalie

ISBN: PB: 9780300210897, Yale University Press, November 2014
400 pp., 31.1x28.6 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

A leading Orientalist painter during the Third Republic in France, Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant was one of the great colourists of the period, and his work evokes the sights he had witnessed during his travels in Spain and Morocco, as well as reflec...

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Byzantine Things in the World

Peers Glenn, Barber Charles, Caffey Stephen, Franses Henri, Haskell Caitlin, Rodriguez James, Shiff Richard, Steiner Shannon, Sutton Susan, Williams Robin

ISBN: HB: 9780300191783, Yale University Press, June 2013
192 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

How did Byzantine culture understand its own objects we now call "art"? This enlightening publication proposes that they saw and experienced clay pilgrim tokens, relief stamps, and icons of saints as dynamic and fully capable of affecting the world....

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Berthe Morisot

Mathieu Marianne

ISBN: PB: 9780300182019, Yale University Press, April 2012
264 pp., 28.5x22 cm, 200 colour illus.

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a woman of extraordinary talent who carved for herself a career within the art world of nineteenth-century Paris. She was one of only a handful of women who exhibited with both the Paris Salon and the influential and in...

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Literary Criticism

Brush and the Pen Odilon Redon and Literature

Gamboni Dario

ISBN: HB: 9780226280554, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 94 halftones

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded t...

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Art Flexi-Series

British Watercolours, 1750-1880

Wilton Andrew, Lyles Anne

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791345390, Prestel Publishing, April 2011
340 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 332 colour illus., 57 black&white illus.

Now available in a flexi format, this book is a magnificent survey of watercolour masterpieces from artists such as Turner, Blake, Constable, and Whistler. This beautiful volume documents an important moment in the history of the watercolour, as its...

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