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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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How to Read Chinese Paintings

Hearn Maxwell K.

ISBN: PB: 9780300141870, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2008
184 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 175 colour illus.

The Chinese often use the expression du hua, "to read a painting", in connection with their study and appreciation of such works. This volume closely 'reads' thirty-six masterpieces of Chinese painting from the encyclopaedic collection of The Metropo...

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Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe

Penny Nicholas, Schmidt Eike D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300121605, Yale University Press, May 2008
512 pp., 28x23 cm, 383 black&white illus., 56 colour illus.

Among the precursors of today's public museums, perhaps the most important are collections of sculpture formed in the early modern era by royal families, aristocratic amateurs, and artists. In this, the first book to survey the practice of collecting...

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Dutch Seventeenth-century Genre Painting Its Stylistic and Thematic Evolution

Franits Wayne E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300143362, Yale University Press, May 2008
320 pp., 28.5x24.7 cm, 230 black&white illus., 100 colour illus.

The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists – Vermeer, Steen, de Hooch, Dou, and others – have long enjoyed tremendous popularity. This comprehensive book explores the evolution of genre painting throughout the Dutch Gold...

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Reclaimed Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

Sutton Peter C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300137293, Yale University Press, May 2008
224 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 200 illus.

Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940), a Jewish Dutch art dealer, took over his father's gallery in 1919 and quickly made his presence felt. Introducing a more international thrust to the gallery and demonstrating a keen business acumen, Goudstikker became...

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Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099133, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2008
544 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 235 colour illus.

This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery's unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintor...

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Food and Feasting in Art

Malaguzzi Silvia

ISBN: PB: 9780892369140, Getty Publications, May 2008
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

Deliciously illustrated with masterpieces of western art, this latest volume in the highly acclaimed "Guide to Imagery" series explores the rituals, customs, and symbolism of food and dining in art. It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign...

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Decorative Arts

History of Art

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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Surrealism, Art and Modern Science Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology

Parkinson Gavin

ISBN: HB: 9780300098877, Yale University Press, May 2008
256 pp., 25.6x19.2 cm, 60 black&white illus., 20 colour illus.

During the same period that Surrealism originated and flourished between the wars, great advances were being made in the field of physics. This book offers the first full history, analysis and interpretation of Surrealism's engagement with the Theory...

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Railway Art in the Age of Steam

Kennedy Ian, Treuherz Julian, Beaumont Matthew, Freeman Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300138788, Yale University Press, April 2008
288 pp., 25.4x27.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Steam locomotives gripped the imagination when they first appeared in nineteenth-century Europe and America. Aboard these great machines, passengers travelled at faster speeds than ever before while watching the scenery transform itself and take on n...

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