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Beyond Boundaries Connecting Visual Cultures in the Provinces of Ancient Rome

Alcock Susan

ISBN: HB: 9781606064719, Getty Publications, August 2016
404 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.

The Roman Empire had a rich and multifaceted visual culture, which was often variegated due to the sprawling geography of its provinces. In this remarkable work of scholarship, a group of international scholars has come together to find alternative w...

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Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600

Alexander Jonathan J. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203981, Yale University Press, August 2016
512 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illuminati...

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Buddhism

Cave Temples of Dunhuang Buddhist Art on the Silk Road

Agnew Neville

ISBN: HB: 9781606064894, Getty Publications, June 2016
302 pp., 25x15 cm, 25 black&white illus., 190 colour illus.

The Mogao grottoes in northwestern China, located near the town of Dunhuang on the fabled Silk Road, constitute one of the world's most significant sites of Buddhist art. In some five hundred caves carved into rock cliffs at the edge of the Gobi dese...

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Unruly Nature The Landscapes of Theofire Rousseau

Allan Scott, Kopp Edouard

ISBN: HB: 9781606064771, Getty Publications, June 2016
224 pp., 25x15 cm, 15 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

Theodore Rousseau (1812-1867), arguably the most important French landscape artist of the mid-nineteenth century and a leader of the so-called Barbizon School, occupies a crucial moment of transition from the idealizing effects of academic painting t...

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Endeavouring Banks Exploring the Collections from the Endeavour Voyage 1768-1771

Attenborough David, Agnarsdottir Anna, Coote Jeremy, Hatfield Phillip J., Gascoigne John

ISBN: HB: 9781907372902, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, May 2016
235 pp., 28x24 cm, 150 colour illus.

When English naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820) accompanied Captain James Cook (1728-1779) on his historic mission into the Pacific, the Endeavour voyage of 1768-1771, he took with him a team of collectors and illustrators. Banks and his team return...

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Edvard Munch Archetypes

Alarco Paloma, Berman Patricia G., Steihaug Jon-Ove

ISBN: HB: 9788415113737, DAP, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, February 2016
232 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 156 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "Edvard Munch: Archetypes" brings together a thematic selection of 80 works – in full-page, museum-quality reproductions – that examine the painter's long and prolific career and reveal his ability to synthesize the obsessi...

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Masterpieces of Islamic Arms and Armor In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander David, Pyhrr Stuart W., Kwiatkowski Will

ISBN: HB: 9781588395702, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

From its origins in the 7th century, armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. More than 120 exceptional examples from the renowned co...

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Wrath of the Gods Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian

Atkins Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780300215243, Yale University Press, September 2015
112 pp., 28x24.1 cm, 75 colour illus.

Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among "the flower of my stock". This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his predecessors Michelangelo and Titian, with...

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Flemish Merchant of Venice Daniel Nijs and the Sale of the Gonzaga Art Collection

Anderson Christina

ISBN: HB: 9780300209686, Yale University Press, April 2015
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 15 black&white illus.

During the years 1627 and 1628, Charles I of England purchased the cream of the Gonzaga art collection, belonging to the dukes of Mantua, in what would become the greatest art deal of the 17th century. Among the treasures sold were ancient statues an...

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Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820 From Conquest to Independence

Alcala Luisa Elena, Brown Jonathan

ISBN: HB: 9780300191011, Yale University Press, December 2014
480 pp., 29.8x23.5 cm, 250 colour images, 100 black&white illus.

"Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence" surveys the diverse styles, subjects and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied and...

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