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Illuminated Manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands at the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9781606060148, Getty Publications, November 2010
96 pp., 24x17.1 cm, 85 colour illus.

This is a lavishly illustrated survey of the J. Paul Getty's collection of illuminated manuscripts from Belgium and the Netherlands. During the Middle Ages, the region now occupied by Belgium and Netherlands flourished economically and artistically....

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History of Art

Imagining the Past in France History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500

Morrison Elizabeth, Hedeman Anne D.

ISBN: PB: 9781606060292, ISBN: HB: 9781606060285, Getty Publications, November 2010
384 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 194 colour illus., 1 map

This beautiful volume examines the most important illuminations found in French history manuscripts. From around the mid 13th to the end of the 16th century, the most important and original work being done in secular illumination was unquestionably i...

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Art Conservation

Photography

Issues in the Conservation of Photographs

Norris Debra, Gutierrez Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781606060001, Getty Publications, August 2010
752 pp., 25.4x17.9 cm, 36 colour illus., 55 black&white illus.,111 line drawings

This is an authoritative and insightful survey of the evolving field of photograph conservation. This volume is the first publication to chronicle the emergence and systematic development of photograph conservation as a profession. In 72 essential te...

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Children's Books

Incredible Voyage of Ulysses

Landmann Bimba

ISBN: HB: 9781606060124, Getty Publications, May 2010
60 pp., 31.2x23.2 cm, 180 colour illus., 37 black&white illus.

This retelling of the Greek poet Homer's epic tale is accompanied by beautiful and bold illustrations reminiscent of ancient Greek art. The graphic-novel-like style of the book, in which text and illustrations are tightly interwoven, creates a compel...

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History of Art

Irises Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden

Helvey Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9780892362264, Getty Publications, November 2009
208 pp., 18.7x14 cm, 70 colour illus., 17 black&white illus.

Filled with outstanding colour illustrations, here is a landmark study of one of Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperat...

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History of Art

Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780892369485, Getty Publications, April 2009
96 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, 71 colour illus.

This book presents a lavishly illustrated survey of the art of illumination from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It features 71 full-colour reproductions. This sumptuous volume presents more than 70 full-colour reproductions of some of th...

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History of Art

Insects and Flowers The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Brafman David, Schrader Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9780892369294, Getty Publications, August 2008
52 pp., 15.9x11.4 cm, 22 colour illus.

Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its glorious, and sometimes ferocious, detail. Between 1699-1701, she travelle...

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Icons and Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

Tradigo Alfredo

ISBN: PB: 9780892368457, Getty Publications, October 2006
384 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 400 colour illus.

An icon (from the Greek word eikon, "image") is a wooden panel painting of a holy person or scene from Orthodox Christianity, the religion of the Byzantine Empire that is practiced today mainly in Greece and Russia. It was believed that these works a...

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Decorative Arts

Italian Ceramics Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection

Hess Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780892366705, Getty Publications, March 2006
224 pp., 30.5x22.8 cm, 50 colour illus., 270 duotone illus.,17 line illus., 2 maps

In 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythologica...

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History of Art

Italian Illuminated Manuscripts in the J. Paul Getty Museum

Kren Thomas, Barstow Kurt

ISBN: PB: 9780892368204, Getty Publications, March 2006
128 pp., 23.8x16.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

The Getty Museum inaugurates a new series of affordable publications that introduce the public to the richness of its holdings in illuminated manuscripts. The first in the series features Italian manuscript illumination from the ninth to the sixteent...

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