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Decorating the "Godly" Household Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain

Hamling Tara

ISBN: HB: 9780300162820, Yale University Press, October 2010
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 80 black&white illus., 40 colour illus.

The Reformation is generally regarded as a calamitous episode in the history of British art, with the rich artistic heritage of the medieval period eradicated and replaced by an austere Protestant culture of the word. According to this view, religiou...

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Dance around the Golden Calf by Lucas van Leyden

Kok Jan Piet Filedt

ISBN: PB: 9789086890408, Yale University Press, August 2010
68 pp., 23.6x16.8 cm, 72 illus.

Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) was as important for his age as Rembrandt was for the seventeenth century. He introduced the Renaissance to the Netherlands and was influenced by both Durer and Raphael. His paintings are lively, colourful, and full of na...

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils Telling the Difference

Bevers Holm, Hendrix Lee, Robinson William W., Schatborn Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780892369799, ISBN: HB: 9780892369782, Getty Publications, March 2010
304 pp., 29.5x28 cm, 202 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

This is a groundbreaking study of more than 40 drawings by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four dec...

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Duccio to Leonardo Renaissance Painting 1250-1500

Di Nepi Simona

ISBN: PB: 9781857094213, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2009
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery's display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. "Duccio to Leonardo" focuses on Italian masterpieces made between 1250...

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Dutch New York, Between East and West The World of Margrieta Van Varick

Krohn Deborah L., Miller Peter N.

ISBN: HB: 9780300154672, Yale University Press, October 2009
352 pp., 28.7x22.2 cm, 275 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Commemorating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's voyage and the lasting legacy of Dutch culture in New York, this book explores the life and times of a fascinating woman, her family, and her things. Margrieta was born in the Netherlands but live...

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Decoded Messages The Symbolic Language of Chinese Animal Painting

Sung Hou-Mei

ISBN: HB: 9780300141528, Yale University Press, August 2009
256 pp., 29x24.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

During the Ming Dynasty numerous new animal themes were created to convey political and ethical messages current at court. As the result a sophisticated language of Chinese animal painting was developed, employing both the animals' symbolic associati...

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Degas in the Norton Simon Museum Volume 2: Nineteenth-century Art

Campbell Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300148848, Yale University Press, July 2009
384 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 250 colour images, 350 black&white illus.

Edgar Degas was one of the first artists collected by the industrialist and art collector Norton Simon (1907-1993), as well as one of the last. In the short span of less than thirty years, Simon assembled one of the world's most impressive private ar...

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Dove/O'Keeffe Circles of Influence

Bricker Balken Debra

ISBN: HB: 9780300134100, Yale University Press, May 2009
176 pp., 24.1x26.7 cm, 25 black&white images, 125 colour illus.

From the outset of her career, Georgia O'Keeffe credited her introduction to modernism as deriving in part from a reproduction of a pastel by Arthur Dove she saw around 1913. By this time Dove was well established as the foremost modernist artist in...

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Death and Resurrection in Art

Pascale Enrico de

ISBN: PB: 9780892369478, Getty Publications, April 2009
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3,000 years of the iconography of death and resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in art....

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Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern

Cropper Elizabeth, Alpers Svetlana, Hill Boone Elizabeth, Bordes Philippe, Bryan Betsy M., Campbell C. Jean, Connors Joseph, Dempsey Charles, Feldman Marian H., Barry Flood Finbarr

ISBN: HB: 9780300121629, Yale University Press, April 2009
424 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 95 colour images, 167 black&white illus.

This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods, covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, preconquest Mexico and Peru, Islam, C...

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