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History of Art

Closer Look Deceptions and Discoveries

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857094862, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

How do experts spot masterpieces? Paintings are not always signed or noted in historical records, so how can we tell an obscure gem from an altered image? Scientists, conservators and art historians use a range of methods to examine the physical natu...

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In and Out of the Marital Bed Seeing Sex in Renaissance Europe

Wolfthal Diane

ISBN: HB: 9780300141542, Yale University Press, June 2010
224 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 70 black&white illus., 30 colour illus.

This book explores images whose sexual content has all too often been either ignored or denied. Each chapter is devoted to a place that artists associated with sexual activity or desire: the bed, the dressing area of the home, the window and doorway,...

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Rembrandt in Southern California

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9780892369935, Getty Publications, March 2010
64 pp., 16.2x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 1 map

This title offers is a concise yet informative, stunningly illustrated virtual tour of the works of Rembrandt held in Southern California. This superbly illustrated volume takes readers on a visual tour of fourteen stunning Rembrandt paintings held i...

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Art-Nouveau Prague

Wittlich Petr

ISBN: PB: 9788024613468, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, December 2009
135 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 100 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Since the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1991, Prague has become one of Europe's – and the world's – most popular tourist destinations. As in London, Paris, and Rome, visitors flock to th...

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Arts of Africa at the Dallas Museum of Art

Walker Roslyn Adele

ISBN: HB: 9780300138955, Yale University Press, November 2009
304 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 130 colour illus.

This beautifully illustrated book showcases 110 objects from the Dallas Museum of Art's world-renowned African collection. In contrast to Western "art for art's sake", tradition-based African art served as an agent of religion, social stability, or s...

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Friendship and Loss in the Victorian Portrait May Sartoris by Frederic Leighton

Warner Malcolm

ISBN: PB: 9780300121353, Yale University Press, August 2009
96 pp., 23.5x19.1 cm, 30 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

This original and eloquent study brings Frederic Leighton's portrait of May Sartoris to life through the artist's remarkable friendship with May's mother, celebrated opera singer Adelaide Sartoris. The young Leighton frequented Adelaide's artistic an...

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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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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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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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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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