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Michel Sittow Estonian Painter at the Courts of Renaissance Europe

Hand John Oliver, Koppel Greta, Borchert Till-Holger, Mand Anu, van Suchtelen Ariane, Weniger Matthias

ISBN: HB: 9780300232868, Yale University Press, February 2018
144 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 90 colour and black&white illus.

This handsome volume is the first in English devoted to Michel Sittow (c. 1469-1525), an artist from Estonia who trained in the tradition of early Netherlandish painting. Sittow worked for many high-profile patrons, including Isabella of Castile in S...

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Ancient World

Horse in Ancient Greek Art

Stribling Nicole, Schertz Peter, Hemingway Sean, Mattusch Carol C., Oakley John, Pevnick Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780300230574, Yale University Press, February 2018
160 pp., 26.7x21 cm, 130 colour illus.

Horses were revered in ancient Greece as symbols of wealth, power, and status. On stunning black- and red-figure vases, in sculpture, and in other media, Greek artists depicted the daily care of horses, chariot and horseback races, scenes of combat,...

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Diamond Mountains Travel and Nostalgia in Korean Art

Lee Soyoung, Daehoe Ahn, Chang Chin-sung, Soomi Lee

ISBN: HB: 9781588396532, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2018
164 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 209 colour illus.

The Diamond Mountains, known in Korea as Mount Geumgang, are perhaps the most famous and emotionally resonant site on the Korean Peninsula, a breathtaking range of rocky peaks, waterfalls, lagoons, and manmade pavilions. For centuries the range has i...

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Closer Look Landscape

Langmuir Erika

ISBN: PB: 9781857096279, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, February 2018
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 80 colour illus.

Landscape is probably the most popular type of painting, but anyone who has ever been disappointed by vacation photographs knows how difficult it is to turn a view into a picture. This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space...

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16th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311132, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Three texts by two Italian Renaissance painters – Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Paolo Lomazzo – and a compendium of the 53 standard pigments commonly found on artists' palettes for painting in oil on panel and on canvas as outlined by the writer, Raffae...

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17th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311101, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

Ten 17th century writers described the pigments in use in their countries – England, Sweden, Flanders, France, Spain, and Italy. The theme of their treatises was studio practice and the pigments were discussed as they were set on the palette. Surpris...

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18th Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311019, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
132 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm

Pigments described by the English chemist, Robert Dossie, the French artists' colourman, Jean Felix Watin, and the London-based pigment maker, Constant de Massoul. 18th century European painting saw the introduction of new pigments to the painters' p...

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1st Century Colour Palettes

Railing Patricia

ISBN: PB: 9780946311149, Casemate, Artists Bookworks, February 2018
88 pp., 21.6x16.8 cm, 12 colour illus., 6 black&white illus.

The sources of pigments used in European painting are found in classical antiquity, 1st. century B.C. to 1st century A.D. The over 40 pigments in use were described by Vitruvius, Pliny the Elder and Dioscorides, complemented by 3rd century B.C. Theop...

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Media Studies

Image Science Iconology, Visual Culture, and Media Aesthetics

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

Almost thirty years ago, W. J. T. Mitchell's "Iconology" helped launch the interdisciplinary study of visual media, now a central feature of the modern humanities. Along with his subsequent "Picture Theory" and "What Do Pictures Want?", Mitchell's no...

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Metropolitan Museum Journal, Volume 52, 2017

Baetjer Katharine, Kornhauser Elisabeth, Leona Marco

ISBN: PB: 9780226536842, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 250 colour plates

The "Metropolitan Museum Journal", issued annually by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, publishes original research on works in the Museum's collection. Volume 50 includes articles on a possible Cypriot origin for an Assyrian stone mixing bowl in the C...

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