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Wenzel Angela

ISBN: HB: 9783791341736, Prestel Publishing, February 2009
48 pp., 28x24 cm, 60 colour illus.

This heavily illustrated book featuring the world's greatest painters is an excellent introduction for young readers to artists and their works. Whether it's Leonardo da Vinci's mysterious Mona Lisa, Vermeer's vibrant depictions of light, Van Gogh'...

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History of Art

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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Decorative Arts

Upholstered Furniture in the Lady Lever Art Gallery

Wood Lucy

ISBN: HB: 9780300111316, Yale University Press, January 2009
1200 pp., 31x25 cm, 2000 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

Sir William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851-1925), was among the foremost collectors of his age with as great a passion for the decorative arts as for painting and sculpture. This magnificent book explores one aspect of the outstanding collectio...

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History of Art

Jan Lievens A Dutch Master Rediscovered

Wheelock Arthur K., DeWitt Lloyd, Dickey Stephanie S., Gifford Melanie, Rubinstein Greg

ISBN: HB: 9780300142136, Yale University Press, September 2008
352 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 230 colour images, 76 black&white illus.

Jan Lievens (1607-1674) was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic Dutch artists of the seventeenth century. Daring and innovative as a painter, printmaker, and draftsman, he created powerful character studies, genre scenes, landscapes, formal por...

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Children's Books

Coloring Book Frida Kahlo

Weissenbach Andrea

ISBN: PB: 9783791339771, Prestel Publishing, July 2008
32 pp., 28x24 cm, 16 colour illus., 16 black&white illus.

Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines.

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History of Art

Grand Scale Monumental Prints in the Age of Durer and Titian

Wyckoff Elizabeth, Silver Larry, Boorsch Suzanne, Armstrong Lilian, Stewart Alison, Goddard Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300138795, Yale University Press, July 2008
120 pp., 27.9x26.7 cm, 85 illus.

"Grand Scale" brings to light rare surviving examples of mural-size prints – a Renaissance art form nearly lost from historical record. The most famous sixteenth-century woodcuts, engravings, and etchings were those done on an intimate scale. Yet art...

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History of Art

Northern European and Spanish Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago A Catalogue of the Collection

Wolff Martha, Jones Susan Frances, Mann Richard G., Berg Sobre Judith, Hecht Ilse, Klein Peter, Kuniej Berry Cynthia, Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300119442, Yale University Press, A+D Series, June 2008
480 pp., 28x21 cm, 233 duotone illus., 100 colour illus.

This important volume documents the Art Institute of Chicago's significant, yet relatively unknown, collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. Over 100 altarpieces, private devotional works, portr...

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Contemporary Art

On Kawara 10 Tableaux and 20, 834 Pages

Wylie Charles, Laszlo Ervin, Matsui Takafumi

ISBN: HB: 9780300137347, Yale University Press, June 2008
192 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 160 colour illus.

Since the mid-1960s, On Kawara (b. 1933) has objectively recorded his existence through everyday numbers, words, and found images. This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents works selected by the artist from throughout his illustrious car...

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Decorative Arts

History of Art

French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes Baroque and Regence

Wilson Gillian, Bremer-David Charissa, Weaver Jeffrey, Considine Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780892368747, Getty Publications, May 2008
464 pp., 30.4x22.4 cm, 105 colour illus., 432 black&white illus.

The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This exquisitely illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects...

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History of Art

Thomas Hope Designer and Patron in Regency London

Watkin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300124163, Yale University Press, March 2008
448 pp., 31x25 cm, 500 illus.

The son of one of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent that lasted nearly ten years. While travelling, h...

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