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History of Art

Renaissance and Reformation German Art in the Age of Durer and Cranach

Buck Stephanie, Chapuis Julien, Kemperdick Stephan, Roth Michael, Chipps Smith Jeffrey, Syndram Dirk

ISBN: HB: 9783791355399, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
240 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 190 colour illus.

Featuring more than a hundred outstanding paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, and treasures of the Age of the Reformation, this publication comprises masterpieces by Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger, Hans Hol...

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Art of the Islands Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Visual Culture, c. 450-1050

Brown Michelle P.

ISBN: PB: 9781851244461, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
240 pp., 25x21 cm, 120 colour illus.

The Celtic, Pictish, Anglo-Saxon and Viking peoples who inhabited the British Isles and Ireland from late prehistory to the Norman Conquest left a rich visual heritage whose influence continues to be felt. This is the first book to present an illust...

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Contemporary Art

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From Kandinsky to Pollock The Art of the Guggenheim Collections

Barbero Luca Massimo

ISBN: PB: 9788831723824, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
352 pp., 28.9x24.1 cm, 215 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! A reconstruction of the artistic milieu surrounding Peggy Guggenheim. The catalog contains more than 100 masterpieces of European and American art ranging from the 1920s to the 1960s, reconstructing relationships on both si...

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Aldo Manuzio Renaissance in Venice

Beltramini Guido, Manieri Elia Giulio, Gasparotto Davide

ISBN: PB: 9788831723800, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
376 pp., 24.9x20.3 cm, 130 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! The fascinating story of the greatest publisher of all time. The catalog of the Aldo Manutiu exhibition, 500 years after his death, is a tribute to the most famous printer in the history of publishing. It tells how the book...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

History of Art

Baule Monkeys

Bruno Claessens, Jean-Louis Danis, Vogel Susan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300222449, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, August 2016
192 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 113 colour illus., 27 black&white illus.

The Baule people of the Ivory Coast are renowned for their refined sculptural work of masks and figures. This book is the first to focus exclusively on an antithetic aspect of Baule culture-rough zoomorphic sculptures representing monkeys. These awe-...

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Schwitters Miro Arp

Buchhart Dieter

ISBN: HB: 9783791355924, Prestel Publishing, August 2016
192 pp., 29.5x23 cm, 145 colour illus.

Featuring approximately 100 key works, along with numerous reference images, this book explores the work of Kurt Schwitters, Joan Miro, and Hans Arp and the ways in which the artists influenced each others' artistic pursuits. It examines the artists'...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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American Impressionist Childe Hassam and the Isles of Shoals

Barron Bailly Austen, Burnside Kathleen, Weeks Hal, Coffey John W., De Steiguer Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9780300217315, Yale University Press, June 2016
124 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus.

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) was the foremost American impressionist of his generation. Prolific in oil paintings and watercolors, he found his native New England to be a touchstone for his art. Hassam had a fascination with Appledore, the largest islan...

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History of Art

Russian Canvas Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757-1881

Blakesley Rosalind P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300184372, Yale University Press, June 2016
352 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 70 colour illus., 130 black&white illus.

The Russian Canvas charts the remarkable rise of Russian painting in the 18th and 19th centuries, and the nature of its relationship with other European schools. Starting with the foundation of the Imperial Academy of the Arts in 1757 and culminating...

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Art Flexi-Series

Hieronymus Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights

Belting Hans

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791382050, Prestel Publishing, April 2016
128 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 60 colour illus.

Now available in a new edition, this book explores Hieronymus Bosch's masterpiece "Garden of Earthly Delights". Few paintings inspire the kind of intense study and speculation as "Garden of Earthly Delights", the world-famous triptych by Netherlandi...

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