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Great Mongol Shahnameh
ISBN: HB: 9781898113836, Yale University Press, April 2021
456 pp., 32.7x30 cm, 165 colour illus.
"The Great Mongol Shahnameh" is widely considered to be the definitive version of Firdausi's epic poem, and the greatest of all Persian illustrated manuscripts. The paintings from this manuscript are held in private collections and institutions aroun...
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£150,00
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Goering's Man in Paris The Story of a Nazi Art Plunderer and His World
ISBN: HB: 9780300251920, Yale University Press, January 2021
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 47 black&white illus.
Bruno Lohse (1911-2007) was one of the most notorious art plunderers in history. Appointed by Hermann Goring to Hitler's special art looting agency, he went on to supervise the systematic theft and distribution of over 22,000 artworks, largely from F...
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£25,00
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Global Reception of Heinrich Wolfflin's Principles of Art History Studies in the History of Art, Volume 82
ISBN: HB: 9780300250473, Yale University Press, July 2020
320 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 70 colour illus., 60 black&white illus.
Can the reception of a single, widely disseminated book offer a historical road map for a global art history? This is the question posed by the editors of this volume of essays, which charts the enduring response to the Swiss art historian Heinrich W...
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£55,00
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Gods, Humans, Dogs
ISBN: HB: 9785912084065, Prestel Publishing, Arca, February 2020
208 pp., 21x19.5 cm, 205 colour and black&white illus.
This book is dedicated to humanity's oldest and most loyal friend, our companion since time immemorial – the DOG. Dogs have devotedly served poor shepherds and mighty kings, and even the gods. Their hidden talents and capabilities are spoken of in th...
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£17,99
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Gauguin Atlas
ISBN: HB: 9780300237269, Yale University Press, November 2019
180 pp., 24.5x18.7 cm, 400 colour illus.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was an artist perpetually in search of new horizons. This fascinating visual tour reveals the full extent of Gauguin's travels and their influence on his unique style. Gauguin's several lengthy trips to Tahiti and the Marques...
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£16,99
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Golden Age of Dutch and Flemish Painting
ISBN: HB: 9783791384061, Prestel Publishing, September 2019
272 pp., 36.4x30 cm, 220 colour and black&white illus.
The Golden Age in Holland and Flanders roughly spanned the 17th century and was a period of enormous advances in the fields of commerce, science – and art. Still lifes, landscape paintings, and romantic depictions of everyday life became valued by th...
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£99,00
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Green Florilegium
ISBN: HB: 9783791358581, Prestel Publishing, July 2019
248 pp., 34x24 cm, 604 colour and black&white illus.
Very little is known about "The Green Florilegium". Neither signed nor dated, it is generally attributed to the German painter Hans Simon Holtzbecker and originates from the library at Gottorp Castle in Schleswig, on the border of Germany and Denmark...
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£45,00
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Gauguin Portraits
ISBN: HB: 9780300242737, Yale University Press, June 2019
260 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 170 colour and black&white illus.
Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phase...
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£30,00
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Gothic Sculpture Eloquence, Craft, and Materials
ISBN: HB: 9780300241433, Yale University Press, May 2019
296 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 100 colour illus.
In this beautifully illustrated study, Paul Binski offers a new account of sculpture in England and northwestern Europe between c. 1000 and 1500, examining Romanesque and Gothic art as a form of persuasion. Binski applies rhetorical analysis to a wid...
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£40,00
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Gustav Klimt Landscapes
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791385440, Prestel Publishing, February 2019
218 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 214 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.
While Gustav Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbolladen portraits of the Viennese bourgeoisie, these works were just one aspect of his artistic expression. His landscapes represent an important facet of his career and are a valuable contri...
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£14,99
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