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Hieronymus Bosch, Painter and Draughtsman Technical Studies

Hoogstede Luuk, Spronk Ron, Ilsink Matthijs, Koldeweij Jos, Erdmann Robert G., Gotink Rik Klein

ISBN: HB: 9780300220155, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, March 2016
496 pp., 32.4x24.1 cm, 300 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Scholars have traditionally focused on the subjects and meanings of Hieronymus Bosch's works, whereas issues of painting technique, workshop participation, and condition of extant pictures have received considerably less attention. Since 2010, the Bo...

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Van Gogh's Bedrooms

Groom Gloria, Tilborgh Louis van, Getsy David J., Fiedler Inge, Hendricks Ella, Meedendorp Teio, Menu Michel, Salvant Johanna

ISBN: HB: 9780300214864, Yale University Press, A+D Series, March 2016
176 pp., 30.5x23.5 cm, 130 colour illus.

Vincent van Gogh's The Bedroom, a painting of his room in Arles, is arguably the most famous depiction of a bedroom in the history of art. The artist made three versions of the work, now in the collections of the Van Gogh Museum, the Art Institute of...

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Power of Prints The Legacy of William Ivins and Hyatt Mayor

Spira Freyda, Parshall Peter

ISBN: PB: 9781588395856, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2016
208 pp., 26.7x22.2 cm, 200 colour illus.

Metropolitan Museum curators William M. Ivins and his protege A. Hyatt Mayor not only assembled a vast collection of prints, from Renaissance masterworks to ephemeral works, but also expanded the appreciation of prints as aesthetic objects, socio-his...

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Vision in Motion Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time

Zimmermann Michael F.

ISBN: HB: 9783037345221, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
528 pp., 24.1x16.1 cm, 30 colour plates, 85 halftones

Vision is not just a simple recognition of what passes through our field of sight, the reflection and observation of light and shape. Even before Freud posited dreams as a way of "seeing" even as we sleep, the writings of philosophers, artists, and s...

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Floral Ghost

Orlean Susan, Taaffe Philip

ISBN: HB: 9780986281495, DAP, Planthouse, March 2016
36 pp., 16.8x17 cm, 33 colour illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! This one-of-a-kind collaboration between acclaimed author Susan Orlean and celebrated artist Philip Taaffe unites the literary and the visual, the nostalgic and the optimistic, and brings greenery to your bookshelf. Taking...

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50 Series

50 Paintings You Should Know New Edition

Lowis Kristin, Pickeral Tamsin

ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791381701, Prestel Publishing, February 2016
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 150 colour illus.

Now available in an updated edition, this generously illustrated book is a tour of the most important Western paintings since the Renaissance. Spanning seven centuries, this selection of 50 iconic paintings offers readers a crash course in art histo...

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Kamakura Realism and Spirituality in the Sculpture of Japan

Covaci Ive

ISBN: HB: 9780300215779, Yale University Press, February 2016
192 pp., 29.9x22.2 cm, 65 colour illus.

The Kamakura period (1185-1333) is considered a pinnacle of Japanese artistic expression, often described as a renaissance in Buddhist art. This catalogue is the first in over two decades to examine the exquisite sculpture of this period, artwork cha...

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Ancient World

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Household Gods Private Devotion in Ancient Greece and Rome

Sofroniew Alexandra

ISBN: HB: 9781606064566, Getty Publications, February 2016
160 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.

Daily religious devotion in the Greek and Roman worlds centered on the family and the home. Besides official worship in rural sacred areas and at temples in towns, the ancients kept household shrines with statuettes of different deities that could ha...

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Botticelli and Treasures from the Hamilton Collection

Buck Stephanie, Steenbock Frauke, Alai Beatrice, Dietz Georg Josef

ISBN: PB: 9781907372926, Casemate, Paul Holberton Publishing, February 2016
168 pp., 26x21.6 cm, 100 colour illus.

In 1882 the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Prints and Drawings Museum) acquired, from the collection of the Duke of Hamilton, Sandro Botticelli's spectacular series of drawings on parchment illustrating scenes from Dante's "Divine Comedy". It also acqui...

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Diaries of Randolph Schwabe British Art 1930-48

Clarke Gill

ISBN: PB: 9781908326874, Casemate, Sansom & Co, February 2016
592 pp., 24.4x16.8 cm, colour illus.

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