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Imagining the Past in France History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

Morrison Elizabeth, Hedeman Anne D.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060292, ISBN: HB: 9781606060285, Getty Publications, November 2010
384 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 194 colour illus., 1 map

This beautiful volume examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts. From around the mid 13th to the end of the 16th century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably i...

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Italian Journey Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo

Wolk-Simon Linda, Bambach Carmen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300155242, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2010
192 pp., 30.4x24.7 cm, 50 black&white illus., 90 colour illus.

This handsome book presents highlights from one of America's preeminent private collections of Old Master drawings, assembled over the past fifteen years by Julie and David Tobey. Ranging in date from the 16th through the 18th centuries, some 70 draw...

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Italian Paintings from the Richard L. Feigen Collection

Kanter Laurence, Marciari John

ISBN: HB: 9780300114881, Yale University Press, July 2010
272 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 60 black&white illus., 77 colour illus.

Richard L. Feigen has amassed a collection of Italian paintings that is widely admired for its depth and quality, especially for the works it features by the principal masters of the early Italian Renaissance. This beautifully illustrated catalogue o...

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In and Out of the Marital Bed Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe

Wolfthal Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300141542, Yale University Press, June 2010
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 70 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the window and doorway,...

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Intelligence of Tradition in Rajput Court Painting

Aitken Molly Emma

ISBN: HB: 9780300142297, Yale University Press, March 2010
352 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 175 black&white illus., 54 colour illus.

The genre of Rajput painting flourished between the 16th and 19th centuries in the kingdoms that ruled what is now the Indian state of Rajasthan (place of rajas). Rajput paintings depicted the nobility and court spectacle as well as scenes from Krish...

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Irises Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden

Helvey Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780892362264, Getty Publications, November 2009
208 pp., 18.7x14 cm, 70 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Filled with outstanding colour illustrations, here is a landmark study of one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperat...

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Ingres Painting Reimagined

Siegfried Susan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780300148831, Yale University Press, September 2009
320 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 40 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) produced a body of work that strongly appealed to his contemporaries while disconcerting them. The odd qualities of his work continue to fascinate scholars, critics, and artists today. For the most part schol...

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Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892369485, Getty Publications, April 2009
96 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

This book presents a lavishly illustrated survey of the art of illumination from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It features 71 full-colour reproductions. This sumptuous volume presents more than 70 full-colour reproductions of some of th...

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If the Paintings Could Talk

Wilson Michael, Marr Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781857094251, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2009
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 168 colour illus.

"If the Paintings Could Talk" reveals the hidden histories of paintings in the National Gallery, London. With a treasury of fascinating facts, discoveries, and tales, this book describes the flight a work took down a mountainside and the portrait tha...

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Insects and Flowers The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Brafman David, Schrader Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780892369294, Getty Publications, August 2008
52 pp., 15.9x11.4 cm, 22 colour illus.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail. Between 1699-1701, she travelle...

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