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Titian Love, Desire, Death

Wivel Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9781857096552, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2020
224 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 165 colour and black&white illus.

Titian (active 1506-1576) produced a masterful group of paintings for Philip II of Spain, celebrating the loves of gods, goddesses, and mortals. Depicting scenes from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, Titian named them "poesie" and considered the...

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Boilly Scenes of Parisian Life

Whitlum-Cooper Francesca

ISBN: HB: 9781857096439, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2019
96 pp., 26x24.8 cm, 40 colour illus.

In a long career that spanned the French Revolution, the rise and fall of Napoleon, and the Bourbon Restoration, Louis-Leopold Boilly (1761-1845) created innovative and daring paintings in the midst of the most turbulent times. Bringing together two...

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Michelangelo and Sebastiano

Wivel Matthias, Barbieri Costanza, Baker-Bates Piers, Joannides Paul, Danesi Squarzina Silvia, Goudie Allison, Ede Minna Moore, Sliwka Jennifer, Verdon Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9781857096095, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 180 colour illus.

The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance. Through most of Michelangelo's working life, one of his closest colleagues was the great Venetian painter Sebastiano del Piombo (14851541)....

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Dutch Painting

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857095791, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, September 2014
96 pp., 21.5x21 cm, 43 colour illus.

The National Gallery, London is home to a world-renowned collection of Dutch paintings that includes masterpieces by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Cuyp and Ruisdael, among many others. Still lifes painted with painstaking attention to detail, sublime lan...

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Vermeer and Music The Art of Love and Leisure

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857095678, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2013
72 pp., 26.7x19.7 cm, 60 colour illus.

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is one of the world's most captivating artists. Renowned for his sublimely beautiful depictions of everyday Dutch life, Vermeer created exquisite paintings that are sought out by any art lover. Music was a key facet of 17...

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Contemporary Art

Saints Alive Michael Landy in the National Gallery

Wiggins Colin, Cork Richard, Sliwka Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9781857095609, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2013
72 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 80 colour illus.

British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others associated with the Young British Artists (YBAs), was first catapulted to the world spotlight when it was featured in the notorious Sensa...

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Turner Inspired In the Light of Claude

Warrell Ian, Crookham Alan, Simpson Philippa

ISBN: HB: 9781857095371, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, March 2012
160 pp., 29.2x24.8 cm, 120 colour illus.

The English romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) was hailed as the "painter of light" for his brilliantly coloured landscapes and seascapes. He drew much influence from the French painter Claude Lorrain (c. 1604-1682), who was a...

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Bridget Riley Arcadia

Wiggins Collin

ISBN: PB: 9781857094978, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, December 2010
56 pp., 26.8x22.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

For 50 years Bridget Riley has been regarded as Britain's most important abstract painter, renowned for her large abstract paintings, with their complex, repetitive geometric shapes and undulating linear patterns. Given the graphic nature of these wo...

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Closer Look Deceptions and Discoveries

Wieseman Marjorie E.

ISBN: PB: 9781857094862, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.

How do experts spot masterpieces? Paintings are not always signed or noted in historical records, so how can we tell an obscure gem from an altered image? Scientists, conservators and art historians use a range of methods to examine the physical natu...

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If the Paintings Could Talk

Wilson Michael, Marr Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781857094251, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2009
176 pp., 21x14 cm, 168 colour illus.

"If the Paintings Could Talk" reveals the hidden histories of paintings in the National Gallery, London. With a treasury of fascinating facts, discoveries, and tales, this book describes the flight a work took down a mountainside and the portrait tha...

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