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Visual Contemplations Paintings Inspired by Gregory of Nyssa's "The Life of Moses"

Delevoryas Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9781908326843, Casemate, Sansom & Co, November 2015
80 pp., 24x16.8 cm, colour illus.

A novel presentation of 20 original paintings, arranged as a story that delights the eye, engages the mind and feeds the heart Stunningly original works, direct and vivid in composition, yet profoundly resonant With the skill of an iconographer, the...

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Van Gogh and Nature

Kendall Richard, Van Heugten Sjraar, Stolwijk Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780300210293, Yale University Press, August 2015
256 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 200 colour illus.

The celebrated painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a lifelong fascination with the natural world. He spent his youth in rural Holland, and the country's flat landscapes, trees, flowers, and birds would feature in his early art. After he moved to...

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Van Gogh The Birth of an Artist

Van Heugten Sjraar, Vellekoop Marije, Jansen Leo, Moens Bart, Tilly Pierre, Laloux Pierre-Olivier, Vouters Bruno, Daloze Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780300212129, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2015
304 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 230 colour illus.

In 1878, at age 25, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) arrived in the area of Belgium known as the Borinage to work as a Protestant evangelist in rural coal mining communities. He failed in that vocation, and after months of soul-searching, in August 1880,...

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Viktor Wynd's Cabinet of Wonders

Wynd Viktor

ISBN: HB: 9783791349060, Prestel Publishing, October 2014
200 pp., 28x24 cm, 160 colour illus.

Let the inimitable aesthete Viktor Wynd guide you through a subversive celebration of curiosities, art, mess, decay, and selfindulgence, passionately arguing that the world is full of wonder that is in danger of being sanitised and that collectors ar...

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Veronese

Salomon Xavier F.

ISBN: HB: 9781857095531, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2014
272 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 140 colour illus.

Paolo Veronese (1528-1588) was one of the great Venetian artists of the Renaissance, whose works were admired for their rich colours and mastery of theatrical narrative. His paintings ranged from decorative fresco schemes and portraits to allegorical...

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Van Gogh Repetitions

Rathbone Eliza E., Robinson William H., Steele Elizabeth, Steele Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300190823, Yale University Press, November 2013
208 pp., 24.1x24.1 cm, 125 colour illus.

Popular perceptions of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) frequently envision the painter working before nature in an emotional frenzy, yet the artist's method was more often controlled and deliberate. "Van Gogh Repetitions" is the first book to focus on t...

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Vermeer and Music The Art of Love and Leisure

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857095678, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2013
72 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 60 colour illus.

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the world's most captivating artists. Renowned for his sublimely beautiful depictions of everyday Dutch life, Vermeer created exquisite paintings that are sought out by any art lover. Music was a key facet of 17...

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Visual Judaism in Late Antiquity Historical Contexts of Jewish Art

Levine Lee I.

ISBN: HB: 9780300100891, Yale University Press, January 2013
576 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 128 black&white illus.

A new type of Jewish art emerged in Late Antiquity, when artists produced visual depictions that had not existed earlier within a Jewish context – figural images (including pagan motifs), biblical scenes, and religious symbols. "Visual Judaism" locat...

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Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Van Gogh Up Close

Homburg Cornelia

ISBN: HB: 9780300181296, Yale University Press, February 2012
368 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 200 colour illus.

This sumptuously illustrated book offers a completely new way of looking at the art of Vincent van Gogh, by exploring the artist's approach to nature through his innovative use of the close-up view. Focusing on the last years of the artist's career –...

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