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Giovanni da Rimini Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints

Koopstra Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781857096224, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2017
64 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 35 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This monograph celebrates the National Gallery's 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini's "Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints" (c. 13001305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages, uniting the exquisite detail o...

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Gather Out of Star-Dust A Harlem Renaissance Album

Barton Melissa

ISBN: PB: 9780300225617, Yale University Press, April 2017
144 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 140 colour illus.

"Gather Out of Star-Dust" takes as its central premise that the Harlem Renaissance, known by its participants as the Negro Renaissance, relied heavily on "gatherings" of all kinds. Collaboration, friendship, partnership, and sponsorship were all cent...

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Golden Age of European Art Celebrating Fifty Years of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Baert Barbara, Bayer Andrea, Dunlop Anne, Ostrow Steven F., Pon Lisa, Postle Martin, Wheelock Arthur K. Jr.

ISBN: HB: 9780300207811, Yale University Press, January 2017
272 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus., 45 black&white illus.

Marking the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, this commemorative book presents masterpieces from the foundation's collection. The works span more than 400 years, from the 16th through the early 20th century, and fea...

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Great Works Encounters with Art

Glover Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783791383019, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
224 pp., 24x16.5 cm, 1 black&white illus., 49 colour illus.

Every Saturday for the best part of a decade, thousands of people have been turning to the pages of the British newspaper The Independent to read Michael Glover's thoughts about a particular piece of art. Pithy, astute, erudite, often humorous, and a...

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Goya in the Norton Simon Museum

Wilson-Bareau Juliet, Lehmbeck Leah

ISBN: HB: 9780300196269, Yale University Press, June 2016
264 pp., 28x25.5 cm, 354 colour illus.

During his lifetime, the industrialist and collector Norton Simon (1907-1993) amassed a trove of European paintings, drawings and prints by Rembrandt, Picasso, Degas and others. Simon occasionally became fascinated with a particular artist's oeuvre,...

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Gustave Caillebotte Painting the Paris of Naturalism, 1872-1887

Marrinan Michael

ISBN: HB: 9781606065075, Getty Publications, January 2016
416 pp., 25x15 cm

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894), the son of a wealthy businessman, is perhaps best known as the painter who organized and funded several of the groundbreaking exhibitions of the Impressionist painters, collected their works, and ensured the Impressio...

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Glory of Saint George Man, Dragon, and Death

Busine Laurent, Sellink Manfred

ISBN: HB: 9780300215755, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2015
304 pp., 28x22.9 cm, 250 colour illus.

This book offers the first-ever survey of artistic depictions of the legend of Saint George defeating the dragon. The earliest existing references to this episode in the hagiography of Saint George date from the 11th century, and the mythical conflic...

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God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth Light in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215281, Yale University Press, November 2015
384 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The "Qur'an" makes rich references to light, tying it to revelation, and light consequently permeates the culture and visual arts of the Islamic lands. "God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth" explores the integral role of light in Islamic civ...

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Gates of the Lord The Tradition of Krishna Paintings

Ghose Madhuvanti, Ambalal Amit, Krishna Kalyan, Lyons Tryna, Shah Anita, Bachrach Emilia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214727, Yale University Press, A+D Series, October 2015
176 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus.

The Pushtimarg, a Hindu sect established in India in the fifteenth century, possesses a unique culture-reaching back centuries and still vital today-in which art and devotion are deeply intertwined. This important volume, illustrated with more than o...

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Catalogue Raisonne

George Romney A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings

Kidson Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780300209693, Yale University Press, July 2015
960 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 350 colour illus., 1600 black&white illus.

This magnificent catalogue, in three volumes and with nearly 2,000 illustrations, will restore George Romney (1734-1802) to his long-overdue position – with his contemporaries Reynolds and Gainsborough – as a master of 18th-century British portrait p...

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