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Illuminating Women in the Medieval World
ISBN: HB: 9781606065266, Getty Publications, July 2017
120 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 106 colour illus.
When one thinks of women in the Middle Ages, the images that often come to mind are those of damsels in distress, mystics in convents, female laborers in the field, and even women of ill repute. In reality, however, medieval conceptions of womanhood...
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£16,99
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Ancient Terracottas from South Italy and Sicily in the J. Paul Getty Museum
ISBN: PB: 9781606064863, Getty Publications, June 2017
250 pp., 28x21.7 cm, illus.
This J. Paul Getty Museum collection catalogue presents sixty ancient terracottas in detail and provides a guide to the one thousand other ancient terracotta objects in the collection.
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£55,00
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Roman Mosaics in the J.Paul Getty Mueseum
ISBN: PB: 9781606064979, Getty Publications, June 2017
88 pp., 27.9x21.7 cm, illus.
The mosaics in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum span the second through the sixth centuries AD and reveal the diversity of compositions found throughout the Roman Empire during this period. Elaborate floors of stone and glass tesserae trans...
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£27,50
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Lure of Italy Artists' Views
ISBN: HB: 9781606065198, Getty Publications, May 2017
96 pp., 18.4x21.6 cm, 1 map, 67 colour illus.
For centuries Italy has fascinated travelers and artists. From the crumbling ruins of ancient Rome to the crystal- clear light of Venice, artists have found inspiration not only in the cities but also in the countryside and in the deep history and cu...
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£14,99
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Thomas Annan Photographer of Glasgow
ISBN: HB: 9781606065235, Getty Publications, May 2017
216 pp., 29.2x24.1 cm, 198 colour illus.
Thomas Annan (1829-1887) was the preeminent photographer of Glasgow in the mid-nineteenth century, a period when the rise in industry and population dramatically altered the landscape of the "second city" of the British Empire. Often working in conju...
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£40,00
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Adolph Menzel The Quest for Reality
ISBN: HB: 9781606065174, Getty Publications, April 2017
284 pp., 27.9x22.7 cm, 30 black&white illus., 137 colour illus.
Adolph Menzel (1815-1905) is widely regarded as the epitome of realist art. From the very beginning of his career, he captured the beauty and horror of reality with unflinching precision, and he was a consummate master of atmosphere. A man of very sh...
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£50,00
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Eyewitness Views Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe
ISBN: HB: 9781606065259, Getty Publications, April 2017
256 pp., 27.9x25.4 cm, 1 map, 224 colour illus.
Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Caravarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert-these renowned view painters are perhaps best known for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their...
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£35,00
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Real Birds in Imagined Gardens Mughal Painting Between Persia and Europe
ISBN: PB: 9781606065181, Getty Publications, March 2017
116 pp., 21x15.2 cm, 31 colour illus.
Accounts of paintings produced during the Mughal dynasty (1526-1857) tend to trace a linear, "evolutionary" path and assert that, as European Renaissance prints reached and influenced Mughal artists, these artists abandoned a Persianate style in favo...
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£11,99
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Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting
ISBN: PB: 9781606065129, Getty Publications, February 2017
80 pp., 25x15 cm
Zen art poses a conundrum. On the one hand, Zen Buddhism emphasizes the concept of emptiness, which among other things asserts that form is empty, that all phenomena in the world are illusory. On the other hand, a prodigious amount of artwork has bee...
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£11,99
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Michelangelo's Tomb for Julius II Genesis and Genius
ISBN: HB: 9781606065037, Getty Publications, February 2017
368 pp., 25x15 cm, 110 colour illus., 256 black&white illus.
In 1505, Michelangelo began planning the magnificent tomb for Pope Julius II, which would dominate the next forty years of his career. Repeated failures to complete the monument were characterized by Condivi, Michelangelo's authorized biographer, as...
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£60,00
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