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Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Paintings
ISBN: HB: 9780300134216, Yale University Press, December 2008
360 pp., 28x24 cm, 450 illus.
Only twenty-five at the time of his death in 1828, young Richard Parkes Bonington nevertheless was a seminal figure in the development of modernism in nineteenth-century French painting. By birth he was Anglo-French, and he epitomized the new spirit...
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£85,00
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Unseemly Pictures Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England
ISBN: HB: 9780300142549, Yale University Press, December 2008
224 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 100 black&white illus.
This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the wider medium of print and as a v...
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£45,00
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Merchants, Princes and Painters Silk Fabrics in Italian and Northern Paintings 1300-1550
ISBN: HB: 9780300111170, Yale University Press, December 2008
352 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 150 colour images, 100 black&white illus.
Covering a period that witnessed the flowering of the Renaissance and the major expansion of the Italian silk industry, this volume examines the Italian silk fabrics depicted in paintings from Italy, England and the Netherlands over the course of 250...
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£40,00
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Sleeping Beauty A One-Artist Dictionary
ISBN: HB: 9780226035529, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
136 pp., 29.2x23.9 cm, 33 colour plates
The dictionary. The ubiquitous high-gloss fashion ad. The fraught relationship between artist and critic".Sleeping Beauty" ties these disparate strands of our everyday lives together only to strip away everything we thought we knew about each of them...
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£34,50
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Moved by Love Inspired Artists and Deviant Women in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: PB: 9780226752884, University of Chicago Press, December 2008
320 pp., 24.9x17.5 cm, 63 halftones
In eighteenth-century France, the ability to lose oneself in a character or scene marked both great artists and ideal spectators. Yet it was thought this same passionate enthusiasm, if taken to unreasonable extremes, could also lead to sexual devianc...
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£25,00
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Gustav Klimt Art Nouveau Visionary
ISBN: PB: 9781402759208, GMC Group, Sterling, December 2008
240 pp., 19x13.4 cm
Gustav Klimt's decorative, seductive style, jewel-like colours, use of gold, patterns and sensuous lines, continue to captivate art lovers today. This lushly illustrated volume explores his fascinating artistic career, covering Vienna at the time of...
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£19,99
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Art and Love in Renaissance Italy
ISBN: HB: 9780300124118, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2008
352 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 200 colour images, 50 black&white illus.
Many famous Italian Renaissance artworks were made to celebrate love and marriage. They were the pinnacles of a tradition, dating from the early Renaissance, of commemorating betrothal, marriage, and the birth of a child by commissioning extraordinar...
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£50,00
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William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones Interlacings
ISBN: HB: 9780300140934, Yale University Press, October 2008
224 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 60 colour images, 40 black&white illus.
The friendship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began when they met as undergraduates in 1853 and lasted until Morris' death in 1896, despite their differences in temperament and in attitudes to political engagement. This friendship was...
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Prayer Book of Charles Bold A Study of a Flemish Masterpiece from the Burgundian Court
ISBN: HB: 9780892369430, Getty Publications, October 2008
312 pp., 24.8x17 cm, 46 colour illus., 124 black&white illus.
In January 1469, the accounts of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (reigned 1467-77) record a payment to the noted scribe Nicolas Spierinc "for having written... some prayers for my lord". Seven months later, the same accounts record a payment to the...
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£45,00
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European Art of the Seventeenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780892369348, Getty Publications, October 2008
384 pp., 19.7x14 cm, 400 colour illus.
The seventeenth century was an era of absolute monarchs, the Habsburgs of Spain and Louis XIV of France, whose patronage of the arts helped furnish their opulent palaces. But it was also the beginning of a new era of commercialism, in which artists i...
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£18,99
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