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Spitz Master A Parisian Book of Hours

Clark Gregory T.

ISBN: PB: 9780892367122, Getty Publications, March 2006
90 pp., 23.5x19 cm, 40 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

The Spitz book of hours is one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum. It is also one of the most original and inventive manuscripts painted in the International style. "The Spitz Master", its primary illuminator, all...

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Olmec Art and Archaeology in Mesoamerica

Clark John E., Pye Mary E., Arnold Philip J., De La Fuente Beatriz, Diehl Richard A., Gillespie Susan D., Grove David C., Lesure Richard G., Niederberger Christine, Ortiz Ponciano

ISBN: PB: 9780300114461, Yale University Press, March 2006
344 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 11 colour images, 270 black&white illus.

This handsome volume presents the creations of Mesoamerica's most ancient societies in their archaeological contexts. The Olmec, who are best known for a unique style of monumental stone head and jade were-jaguar, were based along the Gulf of Mexico,...

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Pontormo The Halberdier

Cropper Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780892363667, Getty Publications, March 2006
136 pp., 23.5x19.2 cm, 18 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

Much has been written about the identity of the sitter in this portrait. In 1568, Vasari noted that "Pontormo" painted a beautiful work, a portrait of Francesco Guardi. In 1612, however, the name of Cosimo i de' Medici was attached to a description o...

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Paris in Despair Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870-1871)

Clayson Hollis

ISBN: PB: 9780226109572, ISBN: HB: 9780226109510, University of Chicago Press, March 2005
472 pp., 23.4x21.6 cm, 36 colour plates, 181 halftones

The siege of Paris by Prussians in the fall and winter of 1870 and 1871 turned the city upside down, radically altering its appearance, social structure, and mood. As Hollis Clayson demonstrates in "Paris in Despair", the siege took an especially hea...

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Evolution of English Collecting The Reception of Italian Art in the Tudor and Stuart Periods

Chaney Edward

ISBN: HB: 9780300102246, Yale University Press, November 2003
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 illus.

After a thorough survey of the background history of European collecting, focussing in particular on Italy's formative role in this phenomenon, Edward Chaney contextualises English collecting in the 16th and 17th centuries and draws together a collec...

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A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Fifty Years

Cropper Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780300099614, Yale University Press, February 2003
255 pp., 27.5x20.5 cm, 63 illus.

The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were begun in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art in order to bring the best in contemporary scholarship to the public. To mark the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed series, the Center for Advanced Study in...

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Ireland's Painters

Crookshank Anne O., Knight of Glin

ISBN: HB: 9780300097658, Yale University Press, October 2002
352 pp., 32.9x25.9 cm, 50 black&white illus., 375 colour illus.

This illustrated survey of the history of Irish painting encompasses the entire span from the Middle Ages to the mid-20th century. The volume includes both well-known and virtually unknown artists, Irish artists who worked abroad as well as in Irelan...

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Farewell to an Idea Episodes from a History of Modernism

Clark T. J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300089103, Yale University Press, March 2001
464 pp., 27.5x19.5 cm, 210 black&white illus., 80 colour illus.

In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernis...

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African Royal Court Art

Coquet Michele

ISBN: HB: 9780226115757, University of Chicago Press, December 1998
189 pp., 28.7x22.4 cm, 52 colour plates, 102 halftones, 2 maps

In this visually stunning work, anthropologist Michele Coquet presents the power and the brilliance of African court arts. Grounding her analysis in the social and historical context of traditional royalty systems, Coquet examines the diverse roles p...

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Bernini Flights of Love, the Art of Devotion

Careri Giovanni

ISBN: PB: 9780226092737, University of Chicago Press, March 1995
168 pp., 22.9x15.4 cm, 41 halftones

Nowhere is evidence of Bernini's unique abillity to unite architecture with sculpture and painting into a beautiful whole more compelling than in the Baroque chapel of Bernini's design: a dark world sealed below by a balustrade, covered by a luminous...

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