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Bartolome Bermejo Master of the Spanish Renaissance

Treves Letizia, Molina Figueras Joan, Campbell Lorne, Capwell Tobias, Ackroyd Paul, Spring Marika, Herraez Vossbrink Akemi

ISBN: PB: 9781857096446, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2019
128 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 70 colour illus.

Painted in 1468, "Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil" is the first documented work by Bartolome Bermejo (c. 1440 – c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the p...

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Flower Power

Phillips Catherine, Stretsova Helena

ISBN: HB: 9785912083631, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
224 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm, colour illus.

This elegant gift edition pays tribute to the symbolic and allegorical language of flowers by placing flower portraits , manuscripts and botanical atlases alongside myths, legends and poetry from around the world. Devoted to flowers, the book is beau...

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Eileen Hogan Personal Geographies

Fairman Elisabeth R., Hogan Eileen, Robinson Duncan, Conway Morris Roderick, Longstaffe-Gowan Todd, Turner Sarah Victoria, Lousada Sandra

ISBN: PB: 9780300241471, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 26x21 cm, 320 colour illus.

This visually stunning survey provides an in-depth look at Eileen Hogan's (b. 1946) working methods. Covering her entire career, it focuses particularly on two dominant themes in the artist's oeuvre – enclosed gardens and portraiture. Her depictions...

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Gothic Sculpture Eloquence, Craft, and Materials

Binski Paul

ISBN: HB: 9780300241433, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wid...

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Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thompson Jennifer A., Rishel Joseph J., Owens Eileen

ISBN: HB: 9780876332894, Yale University Press, May 2019
208 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

Featuring 90 highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's stellar collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, this handsome volume includes iconic works such as Paul Cezanne's "Large Bathers", Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers", Edgar De...

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Power of Color Five Centuries of European Painting

Hall Marcia B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300237191, Yale University Press, May 2019
312 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 204 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

This expansive study of color illuminates the substance, context, and meaning of five centuries of European painting. Between the mid-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the materials of painting remained remarkably unchanged, but innovations in their u...

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Shinto Discovery of the Divine in Japanese Art

Vilbar Sinead, Carr Kevin, Andrei Talia J., Chusid Miriam, Tomoji Iwai, Shigeki Iwata, Kazuki Morishima, Enishi Naomi, Kosei Taniguchi, Ken Shimizu, Ryusuke Yamaguchi

ISBN: HB: 9780300237016, Yale University Press, May 2019
400 pp., 25.4x30.2 cm, 195 colour illus.

A central feature of Japanese culture for many centuries, the veneration of kami deities – a practice often referred to as Shinto – has been a driving force behind a broad swath of visual art. Focusing on the Heian period (795-1185) through the Edo p...

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Birds of a Feather...

Philips Catherine, Stretsova Helena, Pen Olga

ISBN: HB: 9785912083648, Prestel Publishing, Arca, May 2019
304 pp., 15.2x11.4 cm

The symbolism surrounding the bird is unequalled by any other creature. Godlike, mysterious, benevolent or evil, they can be associated with fire, with freedom, with fragility and have been a recurrent symbol in mythology, literature and art through...

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Illuminated Paris Essays on Art and Lighting in the Belle Epoque

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: HB: 9780226593869, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
320 pp., 25.4x21.5 cm, 75 colour plates, 32 halftones

The City of Light. For many, these four words instantly conjure late nineteenth-century Paris and the garish colors of Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic posters. More recently, the Eiffel Tower's nightly show of sparkling electric lights has come to exemplif...

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Tintoretto and Architecture

Guidarelli Gianmario, Grosso Marcel

ISBN: PB: 9788831743839, DAP, Marsilio Editori, May 2019
232 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 150 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! There is no overstating the long shadow of influence that Jacopo Tintoretto (1519-1594) has exerted on the history of Western art. However, in the long historiography devoted to his work, the Venetian master lacks a compreh...

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