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History of Art

Hollender Wendy

ISBN: PB: 9780823007066, GMC Group, Watson-Guptill, October 2010
144 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, colour illus.

Not for sale in selected countries! A thorough immersion in the art of botanical drawing, this book will attract both aspiring and more experienced artists seeking scientific accuracy and the illusion of 3-dimension in their botanical artwork. Base...

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Believing and Seeing The Art of Gothic Cathedrals

Recht Roland

ISBN: PB: 9780226706078, ISBN: HB: 9780226706061, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In "Believing and Seeing", Roland Recht argues that preoccupation with vision as a key to religious knowledge profoundly affected a broad range of late medieval works. In addition to the great cathedrals of France, Recht explores key religious buildi...

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Blessed and Beautiful Picturing the Saints

Kiely Robert

ISBN: HB: 9780300162776, Yale University Press, August 2010
288 pp., 24x17 cm, 130 colour illus.

This book offers a powerful and searching meditation on the lives of the saints and the images of them painted by Renaissance artists in Italy. Robert Kiely, a distinguished scholar of modernist literature and a historian and critic of exceptional se...

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Becoming Venetian Immigrants and the Arts in Early Modern Venice

Maria Blake

ISBN: HB: 9780300148817, Yale University Press, May 2010
256 pp., 28x22 cm, 140 black&white illus., 60 colour illus.

Few, if any, early modern European cities boasted a population as racially, ethnically and religiously diverse as Renaissance Venice, from German merchants living in the Fondaco dei Tedeschi to the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto. This innovative an...

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Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

Hunt Lynn, Jacob Margaret, Mijnhardt Wijnan

ISBN: PB: 9780892369683, Getty Publications, March 2010
388 pp., 25.5x17.7 cm, 8 colour illus., 128 black&white illus.

This is a superbly illustrated exploration of one of the most important works of comparative religion ever published. In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, the "Ceremonies et costumes re...

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British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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Buddhist Art An Historical and Cultural Journey

Beguin Giles

ISBN: HB: 9789749863879, Prestel Publishing, River Books, October 2009
400 pp., 32.2x25.1 cm, colour photos

Buddhism and its art is the one truly unifying factor of the entire Asian continent and has become a fundamental part of our shared world heritage. To draw a unique portrait of this art in a single work is a formidable undertaking due to the great pl...

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Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851

Roscoe Ingrid

ISBN: HB: 9780300149654, Yale University Press, September 2009
1616 pp., 23.6x16 cm

A dictionary that provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in Britain between 1660 and 1851.

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Buddhist Painting in Cambodia

Roveda Vittorio, Sothorn Yem

ISBN: HB: 9789749863527, Prestel Publishing, River Books, March 2009
328 pp., 29.2x22.2 cm

This book documents the remnants of the rich Buddhist cultural heritage of Cambodia after centuries of wars and destruction culminating with the genocide and cultural annihilation of the Khmer Rouge. The most important mural paintings of Cambodia are...

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Blind Spot An Essay on the Relations Between Painting and Sculpture in the Modern Age

Lichtenstein Jacqueline

ISBN: HB: 9780892368921, Getty Publications, September 2008
240 pp., 23.8x17.1 cm, 16 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

Beginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. "The Blind Spot" guides us...

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