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Lake Keitele Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Robbins Anne

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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Monochrome Painting in Black and White

Packer Lelia, Sliwka Jennifer

ISBN: HB: 9781857096149, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
272 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 160 colour illus.

Painting "without color" has long held a fascination for artists. In this striking and original book, the authors explore how and why artists from the 15th century to the present have chosen to paint in black, white, and shades of gray. Sometimes art...

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Drawn in Colour Degas at the Burrell Collection

Hamilton Vivien, Domercq Julien, Herring Sarah, Riopelle Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9781857096255, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, October 2017
112 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus.

The Burrell Collection in Glasgow houses more than twenty paintings, pastels, and drawings by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) that include his most recognisable motifs: ballet dancers, bathers, jockeys, and women at work. Together with a selection of the Nat...

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Giovanni da Rimini Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints

Koopstra Anna

ISBN: PB: 9781857096224, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2017
64 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 35 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.

This monograph celebrates the National Gallery's 2015 acquisition of Giovanni da Rimini's "Scenes from the Lives of the Virgin and Other Saints" (c. 13001305). The painting is a rare survival from the late Middle Ages, uniting the exquisite detail o...

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Closer Look Pictorial Space

Penny Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9781857096163, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2017
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

For more than six centuries, European painters have been ambitious to depict objects as if they possessed volume, placing them in a space that seems equivalent to the real space of our world. This "fiction" was central to the artist's purpose. Throug...

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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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Australia's Impressionists

Riopelle Christopher, Bonyhady Tim, Goudie Allison, Thomas Sarah, Tunnicliffe Wayne, Taylor Alex J.

ISBN: HB: 9781857096125, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2017
128 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 70 colour illus.

Australia's Impressionists focuses on the paintings of Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Charles Conder, and John Peter Russell. All were key players in a distinctively Australian art movement that drew on influences ranging from Whistler's subtle Noctur...

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Art Conservation

History of Art

National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 37

Roy Ashok

ISBN: PB: 9781857096101, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2017
104 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 155 colour illus.

This volume continues the National Gallery's acclaimed series of Technical Bulletins with a selection of studies across the range of the collection, jointly authored by experts in the field of conservation and the scientific examination of paintings....

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