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Nineteenth-Century French Paintings Volume 1: The Barbizon School
ISBN: HB: 9781857099249, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2019
464 pp., 28.6x21.6 cm, 435 colour and black&white illus.
The significant collection of 19th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes many important works by artists associated with the Barbizon School. In addition to paintings by Courbet, Millet, and Rousseau, there are over twent...
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£75,00
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Bartolome Bermejo Master of the Spanish Renaissance
ISBN: PB: 9781857096446, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2019
128 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 70 colour illus.
Painted in 1468, "Saint Michael Triumphant over the Devil" is the first documented work by Bartolome Bermejo (c. 1440 – c. 1501), a 15th-century Spanish artist by whom only about 20 paintings are known. Acquired by the National Gallery in 1995, the p...
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£19,95
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Sea Star Sean Scully at the National Gallery
ISBN: PB: 9781857096453, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, April 2019
128 pp., 30.5x24.4 cm, 50 colour illus.
Sean Scully (b.1945) is an Irish-born, American-based painter and printmaker, best known for his monumental oil paintings which draw on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful catalogue showcases a new body of work inspired by the...
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£20,00
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Boilly Scenes of Parisian Life
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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£16,95
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National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 39 Giovanni Bellini's Painting Technique
ISBN: PB: 9781857096408, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2018
136 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) was one of the most innovative and influential painters of the Venetian Renaissance and was among the first Italian artists to paint in oil, rather than the more traditional medium of egg tempera. This spe...
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£40,00
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Mantegna and Bellini
ISBN: HB: 9781857096347, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2018
304 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 180 colour and black&white illus.
Andrea Mantegna (c. 1431-1506) and Giovanni Bellini (active c. 1459; died 1516) each produced groundbreaking paintings, marked by pictorial and technical innovations, that are among the masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance. Exploring the fruitful...
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£35,00
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Ed Ruscha Course of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9781857096323, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, July 2018
48 pp., 31.1x24.8 cm, 30 colour illus.
Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos,...
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National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 38
ISBN: PB: 9781857096231, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2018
112 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 175 colour and black&white illus.
This latest volume of the National Gallery's "Technical Bulletin" series features a range of studies, reflecting its commitment to the scientific research and conservation of paintings in its care. Articles include the recent conservation of Rosso Fi...
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£40,00
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Closer Look Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781857096279, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2018
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.
Landscape is probably the most popular type of painting, but anyone who has ever been disappointed by vacation photographs knows how difficult it is to turn a view into a picture. This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space...
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£9,99
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Lake Keitele Akseli Gallen-Kallela
ISBN: HB: 9781857096248, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2017
72 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.
Relatively unknown outside of his homeland, Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865-1931) was a leading figure in modern Finnish painting and the decorative arts. This publication focuses on four versions of his shimmering depictions of Lake Keitele (1904-1905),...
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