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Marking Time Objects, People, and Their Lives, 1500-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300254105, Yale University Press, November 2020
512 pp., 26.4x20 cm, 460 illus.
The period from 1500 to 1800 in England was one of extraordinary social transformations, many having to do with the way time itself was understood, measured, and recorded. Through a focused exploration of an extensive private collection of fine and d...
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£50,00
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James Ensor Chronicle of His Life, 1860-1949
ISBN: PB: 9780300253979, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, September 2020
224 pp., 24.8x20 cm, 200 illus.
The Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late 19th century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early 20th century. Daring and socially engaged, Ensor included po...
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£30,00
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Living Pictures Jan van Eyck and Painting's First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300247572, Yale University Press, July 2020
192 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 95 colour illus.
When Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441) completed the revolutionary Ghent Altarpiece in 1432, it was unprecedented in European visual culture. His novel visual strategies, including lifelike detail, not only helped make painting the defining medium of Weste...
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Artemisia
ISBN: HB: 9781857096569, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2020
256 pp., 30.4x24.1 cm, 140 black&white, colour illus.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1654 or later) is the most celebrated woman artist of the baroque period in Italy. Her career spanned more than 40 years, as she moved between Rome, where she was raised and trained by her father, Orazio Gentileschi, to Fl...
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£35,00
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Near Life The Gipsformerei: 200 Years of Casting Plaster
ISBN: PB: 9783791359403, Prestel Publishing, February 2020
265 pp., 29.7x23 cm, 260 colour illus.
For the last two centuries the Gipsformerei-or Reproduction Workshop-in Berlin has produced outstanding plaster cast replicas of some of the most famous works in the history of sculpture. Still in operation today, it is one of the oldest and most exp...
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£39,99
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Witnessing Slavery Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition
ISBN: HB: 9781913107055, Yale University Press, September 2019
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 168 colour and black&white illus.
Gathering together over 160 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, this book offers an unprecedented examination of the shifting iconography of slavery in British and European art between 1760 and 1840. In addition to considering how the work...
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£45,00
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Bartolome Bermejo Master of the Spanish Renaissance
ISBN: PB: 9781857096446, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2019
128 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 70 colour illus.
Painted in 1468, "Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil" is the first documented work by Bartolome Bermejo (c. 1440 – c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the p...
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£19,95
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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN: HB: 9780876332894, Yale University Press, May 2019
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, this handsome volume includes iconic works such as Paul Cezanne's "Large Bathers", Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers", Edgar De...
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Oak Spring Herbaria Herbs and Herbals from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon
ISBN: HB: 9780965450812, Yale University Press, March 2019
456 pp., 29.1x25.3 cm
This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three...
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£60,00
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Art of Native America The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection
ISBN: HB: 9781588396624, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2018
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.
This landmark publication presents Native American art within the broader context of American art history, through an examination of notable works from a major private collection. The insightful texts provide a new evaluation of the art, culture, and...
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£40,00
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