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Painted Book in Renaissance Italy 1450-1600

Alexander Jonathan J. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300203981, Yale University Press, August 2016
512 pp., 29.2x25.4 cm, 100 colour illus., 150 black&white illus.

Hand-painted illumination enlivened the burgeoning culture of the book in the Italian Renaissance, spanning the momentous shift from manuscript production to print. This major survey, by a leading authority on medieval and renaissance book illuminati...

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Poet of Them All William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert

Fairman Elisabeth R., Reid-Cunningham James

ISBN: HB: 9780300219128, Yale University Press, July 2016
240 pp., 24.1x17.8 cm, 365 colour illus.

Showcasing a unique and extensive private collection that is soon to be acquired by the Yale Center for British Art, "The Poet of Them All" illustrates almost one hundred of Neale and Margaret Albert's miniature books, each one intricately constructe...

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Culture Studies

Possession The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present

Thompson Erin

ISBN: HB: 9780300208528, Yale University Press, July 2016
232 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark hi...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Pharaoh King of Ancient Egypt

Vandenbeusch Marie, Semet Aude, Maitland Margaret Todd

ISBN: HB: 9780300218381, Yale University Press, April 2016
176 pp., 29.2x27.3 cm, 280 colour illus.

"Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt" introduces readers to three thousand years of Egypt's ancient history by unveiling its famous leaders – the pharaohs – using some of the finest objects from the vast holdings of the British Museum. In an introductory...

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Picturing

DeLue Rachael Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780932171573, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, April 2016
216 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 62 colour plates

The history of American art is a history of objects, but it is also a history of ideas about how we create and consume these objects. As "Picturing" convincingly shows, the critical tradition in American art has given rise to profound thinking about...

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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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Catalogue Raisonne

Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings

Bowron Edgar Peters

ISBN: HB (SET): 9780300148169, Yale University Press, December 2015
750 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 420 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.

This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from...

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Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings The Peck Shahnama

Simpson Marianna Shreve, Marlow Louise

ISBN: HB: 9780300215748, Yale University Press, December 2015
192 pp., 32.4x22.9 cm, 105 colour illus.

"Princeton's Great Persian Book of Kings" presents the first comprehensive examination of a beautifully decorated yet relatively unknown manuscript of the "Shahnama" ("Book of Kings"), created in 1589-90 in the flourishing cultural center of Shiraz....

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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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Polychrome Sculpture Meaning, Form, Conservation

Taubert Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9781606064337, Getty Publications, August 2015
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 240 colour illus.

This book features a masterwork in the field of conservation published in English for the first time. In the decades since its initial publication in German in 1978, Polychrome Sculpture has come to be widely regarded as a watershed text on the makin...

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