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Don't Let the Beasties Escape This Book!
ISBN: HB: 9781947440043, Getty Publications, September 2019
36 pp., 26x21 cm, illus.
Young Godfrey and his family toil for the lord and lady of the castle. But when Godfrey stumbles upon an unfinished Book of Beasts, its splendid pictures of animals make him forget his chores. He invents the story of a brave knight, Sir Godfrey the G...
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Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters
ISBN: PB: 9781606065563, Getty Publications, April 2018
280 pp., 25.2x17.9 cm, 37 colour illus., 4 black&white illus.
Giovanni Andrea Gilio's "Dialogue on the Errors and Abuses of Painters" (1564) is one of the first treatises on art published in the post-Tridentine period. It remains a key primary source for the discussion of the reform of art as it unfolded at the...
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David Lamelas A Life of Their Own
ISBN: HB: 9781606065433, Getty Publications, September 2017
200 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work...
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Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Painings and Icons
ISBN: HB: 9781606065099, Getty Publications, February 2017
256 pp., 25x15 cm
Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the...
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Dangerous Perfection Ancient Funerary Vases from Southern Italy
ISBN: HB: 9781606064764, Getty Publications, June 2016
176 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus., 140 colour illus.
In 2008, the Berlin Antikensammlung initiated a project with the J. Paul Getty Museum to conserve a group of ancient funerary vases from southern Italy. Monumental in scale and richly decorated, these magnificent vessels were discovered in hundreds o...
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Display of Art in Roman Palace, 1550-1750
ISBN: HB: 9781606062982, Getty Publications, August 2014
384 pp., 27.5x22.3 cm, 50 colour illus., 116 black&white illus.
This ambitious work lifts the veil on a pivotal chapter in the history of art and its social meaning. This book explores the principles of the display of art in the magnificent Roman palaces of the early modern period, focusing attention on how the p...
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Discourse on Sacred and Profane Images
ISBN: HB: 9781606061169, Getty Publications, October 2012
368 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 11 black&white illus.
This is the first English translation of Gabriele Paleotti's 16th century treatise on the role of art in society. In the wake of the Counter-Reformation, Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti, the archbishop of Bologna, wrote a remarkable treatise on art during...
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Drama and Devotion Heemskerck's Ecce Homo Altarpiece from Warsaw
ISBN: PB: 9781606061121, Getty Publications, July 2012
112 pp., 25.3x22.8 cm, 58 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.
This title offers a fascinating look at the efforts of the J. Paul Getty Museum to preserve and expose a stunning 16th century triptych. Maerten van Heemskerck (1498-1574) was one of the most active and inventive Dutch painters of the 16th century. O...
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£18,99
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Display and Art History The Dusseldorf Gallery and its Catalogue
ISBN: PB: 9781606060926, Getty Publications, September 2011
104 pp., 27x19.7 cm, 70 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the first modern art catalogue, its creation and its legacy. This richly illustrated book examines the making of the first modern catalogue – La galerie electorale de Dusseldorff. Published in 1778, the r...
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£14,99
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Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils Telling the Difference
ISBN: PB: 9780892369799, ISBN: HB: 9780892369782, Getty Publications, March 2010
304 pp., 29.5x28 cm, 202 colour illus., 3 black&white illus.
This is a groundbreaking study of more than 40 drawings by Rembrandt and related works by his pupils. Rembrandt was the most famous painter of the Dutch Golden Age, and the opportunity to work in his studio attracted young artists for nearly four dec...
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