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God is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth Light in Islamic Art and Culture

Blair Sheila S., Bloom Jonathan M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215281, Yale University Press, November 2015
384 pp., 29.2x22.9 cm, 300 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The "Qur'an" makes rich references to light, tying it to revelation, and light consequently permeates the culture and visual arts of the Islamic lands. "God Is the Light of the Heavens and the Earth" explores the integral role of light in Islamic civ...

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Drawn from Courtly India The Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection

Cameron Ainsley, Mason Darielle

ISBN: HB: 9780300215250, Yale University Press, November 2015
156 pp., 29.9x24.8 cm, 172 colour illus.

This publication presents the first in-depth survey of the Conley Harris and Howard Truelove Collection of Indian drawings, which was recently acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exceptional collection, which has never previously been pu...

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Art of Empire The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple

Jones Michael, McFadden Susanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300169126, Yale University Press, November 2015
240 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 97 colour illus., 54 black&white illus.

The Luxor Temple of Amun-Re, built to commemorate the divine power of the pharaohs, is one of the iconic monuments of New Kingdom Egypt. In the 4th century C.E., the Roman Imperial government, capitalizing on the site's earlier significance, converte...

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Wilton Diptych

Gordon Dillian, Roy Ashok, Wyld Martin, Barron Caroline M.

ISBN: HB: 9781857095838, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2015
144 pp., 26.7x21.6 cm, 130 colour illus.

The Wilton Diptych is a comprehensive account of one of England's greatest surviving medieval treasures, now in the collection of The National Gallery, London. The painting depicts King Richard II (1367-1400) being presented to the Virgin Mary and Ch...

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Masterpieces of Islamic Arms and Armor In the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Alexander David, Pyhrr Stuart W., Kwiatkowski Will

ISBN: HB: 9781588395702, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 2015
400 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 400 colour illus.

From its origins in the 7th century, armor and weaponry were central to Islamic culture not only as a means of conquest and the spread of faith, but also as symbols of status, wealth, and power. More than 120 exceptional examples from the renowned co...

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Qing Encounters Artistic Exchanges Between China and the West

Chu Petra Ten-Doesschate, Ding Ning

ISBN: PB: 9781606064573, Getty Publications, November 2015
316 pp., 25x15 cm, 62 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.

"Qing Encounters: Artistic Exchanges between China and the West" examines how the encounters between China and Europe in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries transformed the arts on both sides of the East-West divide. The essays in the volum...

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Between Declarations and Dreams rt of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century

Tan Eugene, Horikawa Lisa, Tan Adele, Sze Wee Low

ISBN: HB: 9789810973490, Prestel Publishing, National Gallery Singapore, November 2015
294 pp., 29x25 cm

"Between Declarations and Dreams" is National Gallery Singapore's inaugural exhibition of the art of Southeast Asia from the 19th century to the present. This richly illustrated catalogue tracks the broad time periods and thematic sections of the exh...

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Visual Contemplations Paintings Inspired by Gregory of Nyssa's "The Life of Moses"

Delevoryas Lillian

ISBN: PB: 9781908326843, Casemate, Sansom & Co, November 2015
80 pp., 24x16.8 cm, colour illus.

A novel presentation of 20 original paintings, arranged as a story that delights the eye, engages the mind and feeds the heart Stunningly original works, direct and vivid in composition, yet profoundly resonant With the skill of an iconographer, the...

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Europe

Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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History of Art

Afterall Autumn/Winter 2014, Issue 37

Vilalta Helena, Gronlund Melissa, Lafuente Pablo, Kreuger Anders, Cahill Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9781846381553, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...

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