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Pierre Puvis De Chavannes

Price Aimee Brown

ISBN: HB: 9780300115710, Yale University Press, March 2010
745 pp., 28.5x24.5 cm, 1000 colour illus.

Understanding Puvis de Chavannes (1824-1898) is crucial to reading the history of art of the late nineteenth century and the development of modernism. Internationally heralded yet sometimes scorned, much exhibited, respected and emulated, an artist's...

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Buddhism

History of Art

Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art

Proser Adriana

ISBN: HB: 9780300155662, Yale University Press, March 2010
224 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 130 colour illus.

According to sacred texts, the historical Buddha encouraged his disciples to make pilgrimages to sites associated with his life. As sacred images of the Buddha proliferated over time, it is said that his relics were divided among 84,000 South Asian s...

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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils Telling the Difference

Bevers Holm, Hendrix Lee, Robinson William W., Schatborn Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780892369799, ISBN: HB: 9780892369782, Getty Publications, March 2010
304 pp., 29.5x28 cm, 202 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.

This is a groundbreaking study of more than 40 drawings by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four dec...

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Rembrandt in Southern California

Woollett Anne T.

ISBN: PB: 9780892369935, Getty Publications, March 2010
64 pp., 16.2x12.7 cm, 26 colour illus., 1 map

This title offers is a concise yet informative, stunningly illustrated virtual tour of the works of Rembrandt held in Southern California. This superbly illustrated volume takes readers on a visual tour of fourteen stunning Rembrandt paintings held i...

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Varieties of Romantic Experience British, Danish, Dutch, French, and German Drawings from the Collection of Charles Ryskamp

Hargraves Matthew, Ryskamp Charles

ISBN: HB: 9780300152920, Yale University Press, February 2010
368 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 200 black&white illus.

This lavishly illustrated book considers Romanticism as a truly international phenomenon by bringing together for the first time nearly two hundred British, French, German, Danish, and Dutch drawings from the outstanding collection of Charles Ryskamp...

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Gardens in Perpetual Bloom Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850

Keeler Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780878467495, DAP, MFA Publications, February 2010
136 pp., 22.9x19.7 cm, 130 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes th...

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British Paintings in Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1575-1875

Baetjer Katharine

ISBN: HB: 9780300155099, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2010
512 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 215 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.

This is the first comprehensive publication on English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish paintings and pastels by artists born before 1841 in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ranging in date from the late 16th through the third quarter of...

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History of Art

Closer Look Saints

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857094657, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

Drawing on the National Gallery's comprehensive collection of religious images, "A Closer Look: Saints" explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of sai...

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Closer Look Faces

Sturgis Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9781857094640, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 100 colour illus.

Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery's collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the dram...

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On Curating Interviews with Ten International Curators

Thea Carolee

ISBN: PB: 9781935202004, DAP, January 2010
144 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 50 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! "On Curating", Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exh...

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