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Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting Inspiration and Rivalry
ISBN: HB: 9780300222937, Yale University Press, February 2017
320 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 180 colour illus.
A landmark exploration of the engaging network of relationships among genre painters of the Dutch Golden Age. The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity...
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Visualizing Portuguese Power The Political Use of Images in Portugal and its Overseas Empire (16th-18th Century)
ISBN: HB: 9783037347423, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, February 2017
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 colour plates, 120 halftones
Images play a key role in political communication and the ways we come to understand the power structures that shape society. Nowhere is this more evident than in the process of empire building, in which visual language has long been a highly effecti...
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Venice and Drawing 1500-1800 Theory, Practice and Collecting
ISBN: HB: 9780300187731, Yale University Press, January 2017
380 pp., 28x24.8 cm, 130 colour illus., 85 black&white illus.
An impressive overview of drawing in Venice, from the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo From the time of Titian and Tintoretto to that of Canaletto and Tiepolo, drawing was an important part of artistic practice and was h...
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Vincent van Gogh Atlas
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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£16,99
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Valentin de Boulogne Beyond Caravaggio
ISBN: HB: 9781588396020, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 2016
288 pp., 28.5x24.1 cm, 145 colour illus.
The first comprehensive English monograph on an outstanding 17th-century artist In the years following Caravaggio's death, the French-born painter Valentin de Boulogne (1591-1632) emerged as one of the greatest masters of naturalistic painting, demon...
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£45,00
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Venice, the Jews, and Europe 1516-2016
ISBN: HB: 9788831724944, DAP, Marsilio Editori, September 2016
536 pp., 30.4x20.3 cm, 241 colour illus., 11 black&white illus.
Not for sale in Estonia! Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art. This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world – the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social makeup, crafts and t...
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£75,00
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Vigeland + Munch Behind the Myths
ISBN: HB: 9780300220032, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, July 2016
304 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 275 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
"Vigeland + Munch" is the first publication to thoroughly outline the parallels between two monumental figures of Norwegian art, painter and printmaker Edvard Munch (1863-1944) and sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869-1943). With only a six year difference...
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Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and the Portrait Print
ISBN: HB: 9780300218824, Yale University Press, A+D Series, May 2016
112 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 65 colour illus.
In the last decade of his life, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) undertook a printmaking project that changed the conventions of portraiture. In a series later named the Iconography, he portrayed artists alongside kings, courtiers, and diplomats-a radica...
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Van Gogh's Bedrooms
ISBN: HB: 9780300214864, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
176 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus.
Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom, a painting of his room in Arles, is arguably the most famous depiction of a bedroom in the history of art. The artist made three versions of the work, now in the collections of the Van Gogh Museum, the Art Institute of...
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£30,00
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Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones
Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...
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