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History of Art

Inspiring Impressionism The Impressionists and the Art of the Past

Bray Xavier, Clarke Michael, Collins John, Dumas Ann, House John, Suzman Jowell Frances, Rand Richard, Stevenson Lesley

ISBN: HB: 9780300131321, Yale University Press, October 2007
304 pp., 30.5x25.1 cm, 175 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Inspiring Impressionism explores links between Impressionists and the major European art-historical movements that came before them, demonstrating how often beneath the Impressionists' commitment to capturing contemporary life there lay a deep explor...

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Impressionist Giverny A Colony of Artists, 1885-1915

Bourguignon Katherine M.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171528, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2007
224 pp., 29.9x22.9 cm, 170 colour plates

Lured by the ineffable beauty represented in Claude Monet's artwork and the promise of painting en plein air, artists from America and across Europe flocked to the French village of Giverny in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transf...

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Imagining Childhood Themes in the Imagery of Childhood

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: HB: 9780300101317, Yale University Press, October 2006
256 pp., 27x20.4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.

The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...

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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Tradigo Alfredo

ISBN: PB: 9780892368457, Getty Publications, October 2006
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works a...

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Irish Rural Interiors in Art

Kinmonth Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300107326, Yale University Press, April 2006
320 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 75 colour images, 220 black&white illus.

This book offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes the hardships and celebrati...

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Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas, Barstow Kurt

ISBN: PB: 9780892368204, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

The Getty Museum inaugurates a new series of affordable publications that introduce the public to the richness of its holdings in illuminated manuscripts. The first in the series features Italian manuscript illumination from the ninth to the sixteent...

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Italian Renaissance Painting According to Genres

Burckhardt Jacob, Britt David, Beamish Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780892367368, Getty Publications, March 2006
252 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 31 illus.

The Swiss scholar Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the first great historians of culture and art. In his manuscript on the genres of Italian Renaissance painting – still unpublished in the original German and published here in English for the...

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Index of Paintings Sold in British Isles During Nineteenth Century Part 1: A-N

Fredericksen Burton B., Armstrong Julia I.

ISBN: HB: 9780892363957, Getty Publications, March 2006
583 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of...

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Intelligent Eye Learning to Think by Looking at Art

Perkins David N.

ISBN: PB: 9780892362745, Getty Publications, March 2006
96 pp., 26x22.9 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Attentive observation of art provides an excellent opportunity for better thinking, for the cultivation of the "art of intelligence". The arts are important in an educational setting, therefore, because they can cultivate important thinking strategie...

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Pelican History of Art

Islamic Art and Architecture, 650-1250

Ettinghausen Richard, Grabar Oleg, Jenkins-Madina Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300088694, Yale University Press, July 2003
352 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 350 black&white illus., 150 colour illus.

This illustrated book provides an overview of Islamic art and architecture during a time that witnessed the formation of a new artistic culture and its first, medieval, flowering in the vast area from the Atlantic to India. Inspired by Ettinghausen a...

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