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Michel Sittow Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe

Hand John Oliver, Koppel Greta, Borchert Till-Holger, Mand Anu, van Suchtelen Ariane, Weniger Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9780300232868, Yale University Press, February 2018
144 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for many high-profile patrons, including Isabella of Castile in S...

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Ancient World

Horse in Ancient Greek Art

Stribling Nicole, Schertz Peter, Hemingway Sean, Mattusch Carol C., Oakley John, Pevnick Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230574, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 130 colour illus.

Horses were revered in ancient Greece as symbols of wealth, power, and status. On stunning black- and red-figure vases, in sculpture, and in other media, Greek artists depicted the daily care of horses, chariot and horseback races, scenes of combat,...

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Diamond Mountains Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art

Lee Soyoung, Daehoe Ahn, Chang Chin-sung, Soomi Lee

ISBN: HB: 9781588396532, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
164 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 209 colour illus.

The Diamond Mountains, known in Korea as Mount Geumgang, are perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a breathtaking range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, lagoons, and manmade pavilions. For centuries the range has i...

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Contemporary Art

Robert Irwin Site Determined

Simms Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9783791356716, Prestel Publishing, February 2018
120 pp., 25.5x19.5 cm, 10 black&white illus., 66 colour illus.

Over the course of a storied career, Robert Irwin has come to regard art as site determined, or something that works in and responds to its surroundings. This book opens with his projects on college campuses between 1975 and 1982. These are followed...

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Closer Look Landscape

Langmuir Erika

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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Contemporary Art

Mona Hatoum Terra Infirma

White Michelle, Chave Anna C., Shibli Adania, Solnit Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780300233148, Yale University Press, February 2018
192 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 289 colour and black&white illus.

The work of London-based artist Mona Hatoum (b. 1952) addresses the growing unease of an ever-expanding world that is as technologically networked as it is fractured by war and exile. Best known for sculptures that transform domestic objects such as...

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Literary Criticism

Design

Designing English

Wakelin Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9781851244751, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2018
224 pp., 25.9x23.7 cm, 92 colour illus.

Early manuscripts in the English language include religious works, plays, romances, poetry and songs, as well as charms, notebooks, science and medieval medicine. How did scribes choose to arrange the words and images on the page in each manuscript?...

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16th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...

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17th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...

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18th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...

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