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History of Art

Mark Rothko From the Inside Out

Rothko Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300238419, ISBN: HB: 9780300204728, Yale University Press, October 2018
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 74 colour illus., 7 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko (1903-1970), world-renowned icon of Abstract Expressionism, is rediscovered in this wholly original examination of his art and life written by his son. Synthesizing rigorous critique with personal anecdotes, Christopher, the younger of th...

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History of Art

Seen from Behind Perspectives on the Male Body and Renaissance Art

Rubin Patricia Lee

ISBN: HB: 9780300236552, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

Renaissance bodies, dressed and undressed, have not lacked attention in art historical literature, but scholarship on the male body has generally concentrated on phallic-oriented masculinity and been connected to issues of patriarchy and power. This...

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History of Art

Rembrandt Painter as Printmaker

Rutgers Jaco, Standring Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300234299, Yale University Press, October 2018
176 pp., 27.9x26 cm, 150 colour illus.

As a pioneering printmaker, Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) stood apart from his contemporaries thanks to his innovative approach to composition and his skillful rendering of space and light. He worked with the medium as a vehicle for artistic express...

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Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century

Roos Anna Marie

ISBN: HB: 9781851244898, Bodleian Library Publishing, October 2018
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 46 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.

Martin Lister, royal physician and fellow of the Royal Society, was an extraordinarily prolific natural historian with an expertise in shells and molluscs. Disappointed with the work of established artists, Lister decided to teach his daughters, Sus...

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History of Art

13th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311255, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

A French collection of recipes for painting on parchment, On Making Colours, by a painter, Peter of St. Audemar, possibly of the Benedictine Abbey of St Bertin at St. Omer in northern France. St. Omer was an active centre of painters and scribes from...

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14th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311248, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

From Italy to France to Flanders, the arts of painting in the 14th century were practised in manuscript illumination, on panel, and in fresco. Recipes for pigments appropriate to all these arts are included in this collection. "Experiments upon Colou...

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History of Art

1st to 19th Century Pigments

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311262, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, September 2018
288 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

A collection of all the historical pigments mentioned in the treatises included in the series, Colour Palettes, by century, complemented by recipes from other contemporary sources. The entries define the pigment – colour, its source (animal, plant, m...

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16th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...

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History of Art

17th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...

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History of Art

18th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...

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