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History of Art

Looking East Rubens Encounter with Asia

Schrader Stephanie

ISBN: PB: 9781606061312, Getty Publications, March 2013
124 pp., 22.9x17.7 cm, 27 colour illus.,15 black&white illus.

This is a fascinating exploration of the mystery that surrounds of Ruben's most well-known and intriguing drawings. Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most talented and successful artists working in 17th-century Europe. During his illustrious career as...

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Last Days of Pompeii Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection

Coates Victoria Gardner

ISBN: HB: 9781606061152, Getty Publications, September 2012
256 pp., 28.6x24.8 cm, 150 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

It is a fascinating survey of the modern obsession with the destruction of Pompeii as seen through the eyes or artists. Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a.d. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually con...

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Contemporary Art

Lucio Fontana The Artist's Material

Gottschaller Pia

ISBN: PB: 9781606061145, Getty Publications, July 2012
152 pp., 25.5x19.1 cm, 76 colour illus., 18 black&white illus.

This is the first English language technical study of one of the most important Italian artists of the post-WWII period. Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative post-World War II Italian artists. Bes...

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Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia The Manton Collection of British Art

Clarke Jay A., Barringer Tim, Bermingham Ann, Broadway Mary, Blayney Brown David, Griffiths Antony, Lyles Anne, Noon Patrick, Paisley Leslie, Rauser Amelia F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300179668, Yale University Press, July 2012
272 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 447 colour images, 9 black&white illus.

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British artwork. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007,...

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Life and Art of Luca Signorelli

Henry Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780300179262, Yale University Press, May 2012
352 pp., 29x24.8 cm, 225 black&white images, 60 colour illus.

Definitive in its scholarship and thrilling in its scope, this lavishly illustrated volume offers the first book-length study of Luca Signorelli (1445-1523), sometimes described as the "least-known major artist" of the Renaissance. Twenty years of pa...

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Leonardo Da Vinci Painter at the Court of Milan

Syson Luke, Keith Larry, Mazzotta Antonio, Moore Ede Minna A., Nethersole Scott, Galansino Arturo, Rumberg Per

ISBN: HB: 9781857094916, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, November 2011
304 pp., 32x24 cm, 190 colour illus.

This catalogue accompanies the major exhibition "Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery" (London: 9 November 2011 – 5 February 2012) Click to see Official Exhibition page on the National Gallery website Leonardo d...

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Late Medieval Panel Paintings: Materials, Methods, Meanings Volume I

Nash Susie

ISBN: PB: 9780955339349, Casemate, Sam Fogg, October 2011
298 pp., 30x24.5 cm, 440 colour illus.

These exquisite late Medieval works, often fragments of larger altarpieces designed for liturgy or devotion, can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.

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Contemporary Art

Limits of Art Two Essays

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9781906497620, Seagull Books, December 2010
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Tzvetan Todorov, one of Europe's leading intellectuals, explores the complex relations between art, politics, and ethics in the essays that make up "The Limits of Art". In one essay, "Artists and Dictators", Todorov traces the intimate relationship b...

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History of Art

Love and the Erotic in Art

Zuffi Stefano

ISBN: PB: 9781606060094, Getty Publications, May 2010
384 pp., 20.1x13.7 cm, 400 colour illus.

This is a magnificently illustrated and enlightening journey through the visual portrayal of love and sexuality in Western art. Even in the modern world where explicit imagery is manifest, an erotic painting from half a millennia ago can still manage...

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Education

Looking at European Frames A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques

Karraker D. Gene

ISBN: PB: 9780892369812, Getty Publications, March 2010
88 pp., 23.2x15.8 cm, 60 colour illus., 1 black&white, 2 line drawings

This is a concise yet detailed and informative guide to the terms, styles, and techniques of European frame making. Works of art in their own right, frames play an essential and often overlooked role in complementing the art works they surround. The...

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