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The French List

Rome, 1630

Bonnefoy Yves

ISBN: HB: 9780857425966, Seagull Books, March 2021
392 pp., 19x15.2 cm, 50 colour plates

Velazquez. Poussin. Carvaggio. Bernini. Despite their disparate backgrounds, these greats of European Baroque art converged at one remarkable place in time: Rome, 1630. In response to the Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church turned to these ma...

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National Gallery Technical Bulletin, Volume 41

Spring Marika, Ackroyd Paul, Billinge Rachel, Cornelis Bart, Higgitt Catherine, Keith Larry, Melchiorre Marta, Peggie David

ISBN: PB: 9781857096705, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2021
104 pp., 29.9x21 cm, 200 illus.

The latest in this annual bulletin based on research carried out at the National Gallery, London, draws on the combined expertise of scientists, conservators, and curators, bringing together a wealth of information about artists' materials, practices...

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When Metaphor Becomes Material Studying the Art of Africa at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Woodward Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300250923, Yale University Press, February 2021
300 pp., 30.5x22.9 cm, 350 colour illus.

The collection of African art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is among the most comprehensive in the United States, featuring works in all media from across the continent dating from antiquity to today. This handsome volume, the product of a grou...

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Nikolai Astrup Visions of Norway

Stevens MaryAnne

ISBN: HB: 9780300250855, Yale University Press, February 2021
240 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 160 colour and black&white illus.

Nikolai Astrup (1880-1928) was a Norwegian Expressionist artist known for colorful paintings and woodcuts of his native landscape. Astrup received a formal art education in Kristiania (now Oslo), Germany, and Paris, but he later rebelled against cert...

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Silke Otto-Knapp In the Waiting Room

Otto-Knapp Silke

ISBN: PB: 9780941548816, University of Chicago Press, Renaissance Society, February 2021
132 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 colour plates, 38 halftones

Los Angeles-based artist Silke Otto-Knapp has developed a painting practice characterized by its rigorous process and attentiveness to the medium's possibilities. Using layers of black watercolor pigment, she builds up delicate surfaces, producing su...

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National Gallery of Art Master Paintings from the Collection

Hand John Oliver

ISBN: HB: 9780300253900, Yale University Press, January 2021
492 pp., 30.5x22.2 cm, 400 colour illus.

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, is renowned for its world-class collection of paintings representing seven centuries of American and European art. Now in the sixth printing since its original publication in 2004, this engaging and broa...

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Rosalind Nashashibi at the National Gallery

Herrmann Daniel, Priyesh Mistry, Parkinson Andrew

ISBN: PB: 9781857096682, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, January 2021
160 pp., 26x23.5 cm, 70 colour illus.

Rosalind Nashashibi (b. 1973) is a London-based artist working mainly working in 16mm film, painting and prints. Her films convey inner experiences of moments and events, often considering the politics of relations in the community and extended famil...

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Catalogue of the Feinberg Collection of Japanese Art

Saunders Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300250909, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 27.9x24.7 cm, 560 colour illus.

Over more than four decades, Robert and Betsy Feinberg have assembled the finest private collection of Edo-period Japanese painting in the United States. The collection is notable for its size, its remarkable quality, and its comprehensiveness. It re...

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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance A Contribution to the History of Collecting

Dacosta Kaufmann Thomas, Blower Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9781606066652, Getty Publications, January 2021
224 pp., 0x0 cm

For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser's Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spatrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a s...

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Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World

Brusati Celeste, Jacobs Jaap

ISBN: PB: 9781606066676, Getty Publications, January 2021
424 pp., 0x0 cm

A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in th...

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