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Samuel van Hoogstraten's Introduction to the Academy of Painting; or, The Visible World
ISBN: PB: 9781606066676, Getty Publications, January 2021
424 pp., 0x0 cm
A unique seventeenth-century account of painting as it was practiced, taught, and discussed during a period of extraordinary artistic and intellectual ferment in the Netherlands. The only comprehensive work on painting written by a Dutch artist in th...
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Sarnath A Critical History of the Place Where Buddhism Began
ISBN: PB: 9781606066164, Getty Publications, February 2020
192 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds (...
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Sidney Nolan The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606065945, Getty Publications, January 2020
144 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Sidney Nolan (1917-1992) is renowned for an oeuvre ranging from views of Melbourne's seaside suburb St. Kilda to an iconic series on outlaw hero Ned Kelly. Working in factories from age fourteen, Nolan began his training spray painting signs on glass...
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Sam Francis The Artist's Materials
ISBN: PB: 9781606065839, Getty Publications, February 2019
140 pp., 25.4x19.1 cm, illus.
American artist Sam Francis (1923-1994) brought vivid colour and emotional intensity to Abstract Expressionism. He was described as the "most sensuous and sensitive painter of his generation" by former Guggenheim Museum director James Johnson Sweeney...
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Sistine Chapel Paradise in Rome
ISBN: PB: 9781606065532, Getty Publications, August 2018
184 pp., 19.1x14 cm, 31 colour illus., 18 black&white illus., 8 line drawings
The art of the Sistine Chapel, decorated by artists who competed with one another and commissioned by popes who were equally competitive, is a complex fabric of thematic, chronological, and artistic references. Four main campaigns were undertaken to...
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Sacred Landscapes Nature in Renaissance Lanscapes
ISBN: HB: 9781606065464, Getty Publications, October 2017
112 pp., 25x15 cm, illus.
Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies-the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit. For some it evokes a sense of timelessness and wonder. For others it reinforces religious convictions. And for many peopl...
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Seeing the Getty Center and Gardens
ISBN: PB: 9781606064917, Getty Publications, September 2016
64 pp., 15.3x15.5 cm, 124 colour illus.
Featuring stunning color photographs throughout, this edition takes readers on a visual tour through Los Angeles's iconic Getty Center, from the monumental modernist architecture of Richard Meier to the dynamic Central Garden designed by Robert Irwin...
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£7,99
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Shining Inheritance Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699-1812
ISBN: HB: 9781606064740, Getty Publications, April 2016
192 pp., 25x15 cm, colour and black&white illus.
During Qing dynasty China, Italian artists were hired through Jesuit missionaries by the imperial workshops in Beijing. In "The Shining Inheritance: Italian Painters at the Qing Court, 1699 1812", Marco Musillo considers the professional adaptations...
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£45,00
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Spectacular Rubens The Triumph of the Eucharist Series
ISBN: PB: 9781606064306, Getty Publications, October 2014
112 pp., 27.9x24 cm, 88 colour illus., 10 black&white illus.
This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Prado's su...
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St. Albans Psalter Painting and Prayer in Medieval England
ISBN: PB: 9781606061459, Getty Publications, September 2013
104 pp., 27.6x19.8 cm, 94 colour illus., 2 black&white illus.
This is a fascinating look at one of the world's most important and renowned 12th-century manuscripts. "The St. Albans Psalter" is one of the most important, famous, and puzzling books produced in 12th-century England. It was probably created between...
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