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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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Closer Look Pictorial Space
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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Closer Look Techniques of Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781857095340, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2011
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 illus.
Materials and working practices influence a painter just as much as contemporary intellectual and cultural developments. "Techniques of Painting" aims to help readers develop a painterly eye by learning to recognize different materials and methods of...
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Closer Look Still Life
ISBN: PB: 9781857095005, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.
What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of pain...
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Closer Look Frames
ISBN: PB: 9781857094404, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Frames" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide offers an insight into the various forms of frame housing some of the fin...
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Closer Look Deceptions and Discoveries
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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Closer Look Allegory
ISBN: PB: 9781857094855, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Allegory" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide helps readers understand the language of allegory within Western painti...
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Closer Look Angels
ISBN: PB: 9781857094848, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, May 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Angels" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide helps readers identify angels and their significance in a painting – be i...
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Closer Look Saints
ISBN: PB: 9781857094657, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Drawing on the National Gallery's comprehensive collection of religious images, "A Closer Look: Saints" explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of sai...
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Closer Look Faces
ISBN: PB: 9781857094640, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2010
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 100 colour illus.
Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery's collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture; their expressions may reveal the dram...
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