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History of Art

Maiolica before Raphael

Sani Elisa P., Raccanello Justin

ISBN: PB: 9781911300205, Casemate, Sam Fogg, May 2017
220 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 160 colour illus.

High Renaissance maiolica, produced in Italy in the orbit of Raphael and other artists, is widely known and has been extensively studied. This istoriato, or narrative, maiolica graces the collections of many of the world's greatest museums. But not...

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Michelangelo and Sebastiano

Wivel Matthias, Barbieri Costanza, Baker-Bates Piers, Joannides Paul, Danesi Squarzina Silvia, Goudie Allison, Ede Minna Moore, Sliwka Jennifer, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781857096095, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance. Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (14851541)....

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Marsden Hartley's Maine

Cassidy Donna, Griffey Randall, Deming Richard, Finch Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9781588396136, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2017
256 pp., 24.1x21.6 cm, 175 colour illus.

Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was a well-traveled American modernist painter, poet, and essayist, but it is his life-long artistic engagement with his home state of Maine that defines his career. Maine served as a creative springboard, a locus of memor...

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Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II Genesis and Genius

Luitpold Frommel Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9781606065037, Getty Publications, February 2017
368 pp., 25x15 cm, 110 colour illus., 256 black&white illus.

In 1505, Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. Repeated failures to complete the monument were characterized by Condivi, Michelangelo's authorized biographer, as...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 51, 2016

Baetjer Katharine, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226438047, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal" is issued annually and publishes original research on works in the museum's collection. Highlights of Volume 51 include a reassessment of a Degas pastel, an examination of painted Maya vessels from the third to tenth...

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Monet The Early Years

Shackelford George T. M., Shiff Richard, Thomson Richard, Callen Anthea, Desmarais Mary Dailey

ISBN: HB: 9780300221855, Yale University Press, January 2017
320 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 180 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.

This elegant volume is the first to be devoted to the young genius of Claude Monet (1840-1926). Bringing together the greatest paintings from his early career-including his first Salon-exhibited work, the Kimbell Art Museum's La Pointe de la Heve at...

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Matisse/Diebenkorn

Bishop Janet, Rothkopf Katherine

ISBN: HB: 9783791355344, Prestel Publishing, October 2016
184 pp., 27.9x24.4 cm, 120 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Featuring stunning pairings of more than 80 paintings and drawings, this book charts the evolution of Matisse's impact on Diebenkorn over the course of Diebenkorn's career. Though they never met, Matisse was an enduring source of inspiration for the...

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Masterworks from the Neue Galerie New York

Price Renee

ISBN: HB: 9783791355818, Prestel Publishing, September 2016
248 pp., 28.5x23.5 cm, 257 colour illus.

The Neue Galerie New York opened in November 2001, when it showcased its collection of Austrian and German art from 1890 to 1940. The museum's Austrian holdings encompass major paintings by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, and Richard Ger...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 50, 2015

Baetjer Katharine, Jones Julie, Mankin Kornhauser Elizabeth, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9780226329505, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
230 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

"The Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a rare mechanical figure from ancient Egypt; isolated heads in south...

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Biography & Memoires

History of Art

Mark Rothko

Cohen-Solal Annie

ISBN: PB: 9780300219685, ISBN: HB: 9780300182040, Yale University Press, May 2016
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Mark Rothko was not only one of the most influential American painters of the twentieth century; he was a scholar, an educator, and a deeply spiritual human being. Born Marcus Yakovlevich Rotkovitch, he emigrated from the Russian Empire to the United...

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