Maya art and hieroglyphs constitute one of the world's most fascinating, visually striking, and complex systems of expression. Most scholarly interpretations of Maya art and culture have emphasized that this ancient civilization was oriented toward i...

The Lone Star State is home to a dazzling array of world-class artworks, many in private collections and rarely exhibited. Reflecting the Kimbell Art Museum's own collecting strengths, this book focuses on the art of Europe and the ancient Mediterran...

This original and eloquent study brings Frederic Leighton's portrait of May Sartoris to life through the artist's remarkable friendship with May's mother, celebrated opera singer Adelaide Sartoris. The young Leighton frequented Adelaide's artistic an...

This book celebrates the recently installed collection of 20th-century sculpture donated to the Getty Museum in 2005 by philanthropist agent-turned producer Ray Stark. This sumptuous book takes readers on a visual tour of the J. Paul Getty Museum's n...

Deliciously illustrated with masterpieces of western art, this latest volume in the highly acclaimed "Guide to Imagery" series explores the rituals, customs, and symbolism of food and dining in art. It features a dedicated mailing and e-mail campaign...

The exceptional collection of French decorative arts in the J. Paul Getty Museum contains more than 400 pieces, most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This exquisitely illustrated volume brings together forty-four objects...

One of Mexico's most important modern artists, Juan Soriano (1920-2006) served as a link between the nationalist imagery of the Mexican muralists and the experimental vanguard of the 1950s and 1960s known as "La Ruptura". This fascinating book, which...

Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism, as well as a prolific output – he produced more than 550 paintings. One of his most striking pieces, "The Fountain...

Whistler embarked on a new project in the 1880s, working on a small scale in oil, pastel and watercolour, representing new London subjects and painting portraits of new urban types. This book is the first critical study of Whistler and his Impression...

A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe", edited by Thomas Kren and Scot McKendrick (2003), this volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at t...