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History of Art

Renaissance Faces Van Eyck to Titian

Campbell Lorne, Falomir Miguel, Fletcher Jennifer, Syson Luke

ISBN: PB: 9781857094077, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2011
304 pp., 31.8x24 cm, 190 colour illus.

This lavishly illustrated book explores the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. While both regions developed distinct styles and techniques, each was also influence...

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History of Art

Collector without Walls Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best

Campbell Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300166729, Yale University Press, November 2010
480 pp., 30x25.2 cm, 2500 colour illus.

The American art collector Norton Simon assembled his astonishing collection of more than 8,000 artworks in just thirty-five years. In 1966, with no permanent home for the growing collection, Simon created his 'museum without walls' programme – lendi...

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Contemporary Art

Picasso Looks at Degas

Cowling Elizabeth, Kendall Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300134124, Yale University Press, July 2010
352 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 350 colour illus.

The great Spanish painter and sculptor Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) exhibited a lifelong fascination – some might say "obsession" – with the work and personality of French artist Edgar Degas (1834-1917). In this groundbreaking study, noted Degas scholar...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Empire Without End Antiquities Collections in Renaissance Rome c.1350-1527

Christian Kathleen Wren

ISBN: HB: 9780300154214, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 27.5x21 cm, 220 black&white illus., 50 colour illus.

In the early fifteenth century, when Romans discovered ancient marble sculptures and inscriptions in the ruins, they often melted them into mortar. A hundred years later, however, antique marbles had assumed their familiar role as works of art displa...

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El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting

Carr Dawson W.

ISBN: PB: 9781857094602, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2009
72 pp., 26.7x22.9 cm, 80 colour illus.

This book presents highlights of the National Gallery's outstanding collection of Spanish painting from the 15th to the 19th century – considered one of the finest outside of Spain. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Golden Age of the 17th cen...

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Sargent and the Sea

Cash Sarah, Ormond Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300143607, Yale University Press, September 2009
192 pp., 28x23 cm, 100 colour images, 30 black&white illus.

As a young man the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) was passionate about the sea and deeply knowledgeable about ships and seafaring. Between the ages of 18 and 23, he started his career as a professional painter with a remarkable rang...

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Degas in the Norton Simon Museum Volume 2: Nineteenth-century Art

Campbell Sara

ISBN: HB: 9780300148848, Yale University Press, July 2009
384 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 250 colour images, 350 black&white illus.

Edgar Degas was one of the first artists collected by the industrialist and art collector Norton Simon (1907-1993), as well as one of the last. In the short span of less than thirty years, Simon assembled one of the world's most impressive private ar...

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Dialogues in Art History, from Mesopotamian to Modern

Cropper Elizabeth, Alpers Svetlana, Hill Boone Elizabeth, Bordes Philippe, Bryan Betsy M., Campbell C. Jean, Connors Joseph, Dempsey Charles, Feldman Marian H., Barry Flood Finbarr

ISBN: HB: 9780300121629, Yale University Press, April 2009
424 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 95 colour images, 167 black&white illus.

This spirited and challenging book presents dialogues between eminent art historians on current topics and dilemmas in the field. The essays consider world art of all periods, covering ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, preconquest Mexico and Peru, Islam, C...

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Plains of Mars European War Prints, 1500-1825, from the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Clifton James, Scattone Leslie, Fetvaci Emine, Gruber Ira D., Silver Larry

ISBN: HB: 9780300137224, Yale University Press, March 2009
280 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 5 colour images, 164 black&white illus.

From 1500 to 1825, Europe remained in an almost perpetual state of war. Religion, politics, economics, and dynastic ambition all played a role in the turmoil that spread across the continent. War-related printed images also proliferated during this t...

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Getty Murua Essays on the Making of the "Historia General del Piru", J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16

Cummins Thomas B. F., Anderson Barbara

ISBN: PB: 9780892368945, Getty Publications, September 2008
187 pp., 33.3x24.4 cm, colour and black&white illus.

Here is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical components – quires and watermarks, scripts and pigments – but also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and...

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