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French Furniture and Gilt Bronzes Baroque and Regence

Wilson Gillian, Bremer-David Charissa, Weaver Jeffrey, Considine Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780892368747, Getty Publications, May 2008
464 pp., 30.4x22.4 cm, 105 colour illus., 432 black&white illus.

The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This exquisitely illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects...

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Thomas Hope Designer and Patron in Regency London

Watkin David

ISBN: HB: 9780300124163, Yale University Press, March 2008
448 pp., 31x25 cm, 500 illus.

The son of one of the wealthiest merchant bankers in Europe, Thomas Hope (1769-1831) was a major catalyst in the arts of Regency England. At the age of 18, he embarked on a Grand Tour to the Continent that lasted nearly ten years. While travelling, h...

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Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France

Ward Martha, Leonard Anne

ISBN: PB + CD: 9780935573442, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, February 2008
104 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 8 colour plates, 67 halftones

Different eras experience art in different ways – often dramatically so".Looking and Listening in Nineteenth-Century France", the catalog to an exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art, uses a selection of prints, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and re...

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Chinese Calligraphy

Wang Youfen, Ouyang Zhongshi, Fong Wen C., Cao Baolin, Cong Wenjun, Huang Dun, Wang Jingxian, Wang Shizheng, Wang Yuchi, Ye Peigui

ISBN: HB: 9780300121070, Yale University Press, October 2007
520 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 550 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

Chinese calligraphy, with its artistic as well as utilitarian values, has been treasured for its formal beauty for more than three millennia. This lavishly illustrated book brings to English language readers for the first time a full account of calli...

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Viewing Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W., Richardson Carol M., Lymberopoulou Angeliki

ISBN: PB: 9780300123432, Yale University Press, May 2007
352 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book forms the third of a series of three volumes produced by The Open University and together entitled 'Renaissance Art Reconsidered'. The other two volumes are "Making Renaissance Art" and "Locating Renaissance Art". While the first two volume...

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Pelican History of Art

Arts of China After 1620

Watson William, Ho Chuimei

ISBN: HB: 9780300107357, Yale University Press, March 2007
320 pp., 28.4x21.4 cm, 200 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

"The Arts of China after 1620" concludes a major three-volume survey that examines China's huge wealth of art, architecture and artefacts from prehistoric times to the present. Beginning with discussions of 'fine' art and painting and progressing to...

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Making Renaissance Art

Woods Kim W.

ISBN: PB: 9780300121896, Yale University Press, December 2006
352 pp., 28.5x21.5 cm, 200 colour illus.

This book explores key themes in the making of Renaissance painting, sculpture, architecture and prints: the use of specific techniques and materials, theory and practice, change and continuity in artistic procedures, conventions and values. It also...

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Rubens and Brueghel A Working Friendship

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9780892368488, Getty Publications, October 2006
270 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 115 black&white illus., 75 colour illus.

Truly collaborative paintings, that is, not simply mechanical but also conceptual co-productions, are rare in the history of art. This gorgeously illustrated catalogue explores just such an extraordinary partnership between Antwerp's most eminent pai...

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British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Wright Christopher, Gordon Catherine, Smith Mary Peskett

ISBN: HB: 9780300117301, Yale University Press, June 2006
850 pp., 29.5x24.8 cm

This book, the first of its kind, sets a new standard as a work of reference covering British and Irish art in public collections from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth. The remit has been as broad as possible. Apart...

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Jan Steen The Drawing Lesson

Walsh John

ISBN: PB: 9780892363926, Getty Publications, March 2006
96 pp., 23.5x19.2 cm, 21 colour illus., 32 duotone illus.

In this fascinating exploration of Jan Steen's "The Drawing Lesson", John Walsh offers an explanation of the individual parts and larger patterns of the work, allowing us to see how each prop and pose contributes to the larger theme – the art of pain...

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