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History of Art

Italian Paintings in the Norton Simon Museum The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300250497, Yale University Press, January 2021
416 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 203 colour illus.

The preeminent collector Norton Simon amassed more than 100 Italian paintings during his 35-year career, and today they stand among the treasures of the Norton Simon Museum. In this catalogue – the first of two volumes devoted to the museum's Italian...

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History of Art

Closer Look Pictorial Space

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781857096163, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose. Throug...

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National Gallery Catalogues, Volume III Sixteenth Century Italian Paintings: Ferrara and Bologna

Mancini Giorgia, Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857093391, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2016
488 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 250 colour illus.

This new volume in the series of National Gallery collection catalogues focuses on 16th-century Bologna and Ferrara. The Gallery holds the most important collection of these paintings outside Italy, including works by Garofalo representing his entire...

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History of Art

Shadows The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western Art

Gombrich E. H., MacGregor Neil, Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300210040, Yale University Press, October 2014
96 pp., 22.5x20 cm, 60 colour illus.

In this intriguing book, E.H. Gombrich, who was one of the world's foremost art historians, traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented – or ignored – by artists...

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History of Art

King's Pictures The Formation and Dispersal of the Collections of Charles I and His Courtiers

Haskell Francis, Penny Nicholas, Serres Karen

ISBN: HB: 9780300190120, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 40 black&white illus.

The greatest paintings in today's most famous museums were once part of a fluid exchange determined by volatile political fortunes. In the first half of the 17th century, masterpieces by Titian, Raphael and Leonardo, among others, were the objects of...

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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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Decorative Arts

Closer Look Frames

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781857094404, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Frames" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide offers an insight into the various forms of frame housing some of the fin...

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History of Art

Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe

Penny Nicholas, Schmidt Eike D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300121605, Yale University Press, May 2008
512 pp., 28x23 cm, 383 black&white illus., 56 colour illus.

Among the precursors of today's public museums, perhaps the most important are collections of sculpture formed in the early modern era by royal families, aristocratic amateurs, and artists. In this, the first book to survey the practice of collecting...

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Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume II: Venice 1540-1600

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099133, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2008
544 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 20 black&white illus., 235 colour illus.

This substantial and beautifully illustrated volume documents the National Gallery's unrivaled collection of Venetian paintings created between 1540 and 1600, including some of the greatest works commissioned by the city from Veronese, Titian, Tintor...

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History of Art

Sixteenth-Century Italian Paintings Volume I

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9781857099089, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2004
448 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 225 colour images, 75 black&white illus.

This highly anticipated catalogue of sixteenth-century paintings from the distinguished collection of the National Gallery in London encompasses artists who were active in Bergamo, Brescia, and Cremona, cities characterized as much by the artistic in...

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