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Tintoretto in Venice A Guide

Dalla Costa Thomas, Echols Robert, Ilchman Frederick

ISBN: PB: 9788831729468, DAP, Marsilio Editori, February 2019
144 pp., 24.1x15.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Unlike the other two master Renaissance painters associated with Venice, Titian and Veronese, Tintoretto (1519-1594) alone was born in Venice and he left his mark there more than either artist. His paintings can still be fo...

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National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 39 Giovanni Bellini's Painting Technique

Dunkerton Jill, Billinge Rachel, New Britta

ISBN: PB: 9781857096408, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2018
136 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.

Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) was one of the most innovative and influential painters of the Venetian Renaissance and was among the first Italian artists to paint in oil, rather than the more traditional medium of egg tempera. This spe...

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Delacroix Drawings The Karen B. Cohen Collection

Dunn Ashley, Ives Colta, Shelley Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781588396808, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2018
208 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 200 colour illus.

Known as the master of French Romanticism for his energetic paintings, Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) was also a consummate draftsman. This handsome book, one of the few to explore this topic in depth, provides new insight into Delacroix's drawing prac...

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Obsession Nudes by Klimt, Schiele, and Picasso from the Scofield Thayer Collection

Dempsey James, Rewald Sabine

ISBN: PB: 9781588396525, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2018
132 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 110 colour illus.

Evocative and often highly erotic works on paper by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Pablo Picasso are presented along with new details about Scofield Thayer (1889-1982), the unusual and complicated man who collected them. Thayer was a wealthy publish...

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Anthropology

NAGA Awe-Inspiring Beauty

Draguet Michel

ISBN: HB: 9780300233254, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2018
432 pp., 33x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus., 260 black&white illus.

Taking an approach that is equal parts anthropological and art historical, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a rare look at the art, artifacts, and culture of the Naga people, an ethnic group spanning several tribes native to northeastern India...

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Contemporary Art

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Other Transatlantic Kinetic and Op Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America

Dziewanska Marta, Roelstraete Dieter, Winograd Abigail

ISBN: PB: 9788364177422, University of Chicago Press, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, February 2018
250 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 20 colour plates, 50 halftones

Not for sale in Poland! "The Other Transatlantic" is attuned to the brief but historically significant moment in the postwar period between 1950 and 1970 when the trajectories of the Eastern European art scenes on the one hand, and their Latin Amer...

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Woven Splendour The Tapestries at St John's Conventual Church, Valletta Malta

de Glorgio Cynthia

ISBN: HB: 9789993276036, Casemate, Midsea Books, April 2017
144 pp., 26.5x22 cm, colour illus.

In 1697, as the Spanish Grand Master Ramon Perellos y Roccaful sat in his palace, contemplating on the gift which he should give to the conventual church of the Hospitaller Order of the Knights of St John the Baptist in order to immortalise his mages...

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Reservoir of Ideas Essays in Honour of Paul Williamson

Davies Glyn, Townsend Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9781911300168, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2017
292 pp., 28.7x24.7 cm, 130 illus.

This rich collection of over twenty fully illustrated essays covers an array of medieval topics, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. The contributors, all friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, are prominent experts in their different fields,...

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Vincent van Gogh Atlas

Denekamp Nienke, Blerk Rene van, Meedendorp Teio, Watkinson Laura

ISBN: HB: 9780300222845, Yale University Press, November 2016
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

A fascinating guide to Van Gogh's itinerant life, with vibrant images and stories about the many places where he lived and worked. This exciting publication familiarizes readers of all ages with the many fascinating facets of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1...

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Brothers Le Nain Painters of Seventeenth-Century France

Dickerson III C. D., Bell Esther, Bailey Colin B., Barry Claire, Bowyer Emerson, Clifford Elise Effmann, Lanoe Frederique, Milavanovic Nicolas, Tallon Alain

ISBN: HB: 9780300218886, Yale University Press, June 2016
400 pp., 28x25.4 cm, 320 colour illus.

In France in the 17th century, the brothers Antoine (c. 1588-1648), Louis (c. 1593-1648), and Mathieu (1607-1677) Le Nain painted images of everyday life for which they became posthumously famous. They are celebrated for their depictions of middle-cl...

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