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Masters of Art Goya

Rapelli Paola

ISBN: PB: 9783791347417, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Francisco de Goya makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. Widely regarded as the first modern artist, Goya was both a court painter to the Spanish Crown an...

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Masters of Art Vermeer

Tazartes Maurizia

ISBN: PB: 9783791347431, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
160 pp., 21x17 cm, 80 colour illus.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Vermeer makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 17th-century Dutch painter who lived his entire life in Delft, Vermeer is renowned for his masterly use o...

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Matisse In Search of True Painting

Rabinow Rebecca A., Aagesen Dorthe

ISBN: HB: 9780300188578, Yale University Press, July 2012
256 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 200 colour and black&white illus.

More than most artists, Henri Matisse conducted an ongoing dialogue with his earlier works, continually questioning himself and his methods in order to, as he put it, "push further and deeper into true painting". In a fresh approach to this giant of...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Unearthed Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China

Juliano Annette L., An Jiayao

ISBN: HB: 9780300179675, Yale University Press, July 2012
288 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 150 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

In 1908, the American adventurer Robert Sterling Clark organized a scientific expedition to northern China to create a detailed geographical survey, photograph the region and it people, and collect samples of the flora and fauna. Inspired by this imp...

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Metamorphosis Poems Inspired by Titian

Penny Nicholas, Agbabi Patience, Armitage Simon, Cope Wendy, Duffy Carol Ann, Greenlaw Lavinia, Harrison Tony, Heaney Seamus, Leviston Frances, Morrissey Sinead

ISBN: PB: 9781857095470, Yale University Press, July 2012
56 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 21 colour illus.

As part of a unique collaboration between the National Gallery and the Royal Opera House, fourteen leading poets were invited to respond to three great masterpieces by the Renaissance painter, Titian: "Diana and Callisto", "Diana and Actaeon" and "Th...

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Paul Klee Painting Music

Duchting Hajo

ISBN: PB: 9783791347509, Prestel Publishing, July 2012
128 pp., 27x18.5 cm, 60 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.

Now available again, this fascinating book examines the relationship between music and painting in Klee's art. A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of the inspiration for his abstract art from musical rhythms and structures. Lik...

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Gauguin, Cezanne, Matisse Visions of Arcadia

Rishell Joseph J., D'Alessandro Stephanie, Dempsey Charles, Pirsig-Marshall Tanja, Shackelford George T. M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179804, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 140 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

The notion of a golden age set in an earthly paradise has long kindled the human imagination. Virgil envisioned such a place of bucolic pleasures – erotic and unsullied, sometimes shadowed by blunted desires and doubts – in his Eclogues, set in the v...

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Renoir in the Barnes Foundation

Lucy Martha, House John

ISBN: HB: 9780300151008, Yale University Press, June 2012
392 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 535 colour illus.

The Barnes Foundation is home to the world's largest collection of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919). Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a Philadelphia scientist who made his fortune in pharmaceuticals, established the Foundation in 1922 in Merion, P...

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William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists

Harbison Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300180725, Yale University Press, May 2012
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 100 colour images, 20 black&white illus.

In the midst of a resurgence of pride in Ireland's history during the 18th century, William Burton, later Conyngham (1733-1796), strove to emulate his British counterparts in producing albums of engravings illustrating the beauties of the country's h...

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Isabella and Leonardo The Artistic Relationship Between Isabella D'Este and Leonardo Da Vinci

Ames-Lewis Francis

ISBN: HB: 9780300121247, Yale University Press, May 2012
240 pp., 24x17 cm, 60 colour images, 60 black&white illus.

Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the lette...

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