Medieval
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Portrait Miniatures in the Frits Lugt Collection [Hardback]
Karen Schaffers-Bodenhausen (Author)
£70.00ISBN: 9781912168101
Published by : Ad Ilissum
Frits Lugt (1884–1970) had a passion for miniatures that began early on in his life. He
demonstrated it in the small but ardent Le portrait-miniature of 1917, the year in which he
bought the first portrait miniature for his collection. S... .... Learn More -
Important European Terracottas: Tomasso Brothers Fine Art [Paperback]
Emanuela Tarizzo (Author); Elliott Davies (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781911300427
Published by : Paul Holberton Publishing
This catalogue presents a selection of important European terracotta sculptures from the neolithic to the neoclassical periods. The accompaning exhibition traces the history of ‘fired clay’ starting with the Vinca civilisation of South-Eastern Eur... .... Learn More -
Power and Grace: Drawings by Rubens, Van Dyck, Aan Jordaens [Paperback]
Ilona Van Tuinen (Author)
£16.50ISBN: 9781911300373
Published by : Paul Holberton Publishing
In 1621, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) wrote a letter to William Trumbull, the English diplomat and political agent to King James I, in which he described a large painting of a lion hunt that he had just completed: “As you rightly observe, such th... .... Learn More -
The Nobile Index Series: In Association with the University of Bristol [Hardback]
Dr Louise Hughes (Author); Rhian Addison (Author); Sophie Hatchwell (Author)
£95.00ISBN: 9781901192490
Published by : Piano Nobile
Series: The Nobile Index Series
Volume: Full Series
The Nobile Index is a series of monographic publications of art sales prices achieved at auction, for a selection of leading 20th-century British artists - Walter Sickert, David Bomberg, L.S. Lowry, Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon & Lucien Freud... .... Learn More -
Peter Salter: Drawing Walmer Yard [Paperback]
Peter Salter (Author); Fenella Collingridge (Author)
£24.99ISBN: 9781901192445
Published by : Piano Nobile
Published to accompany the exhibition Peter Salter: Drawing Walmer Yard at Piano Nobile marking the launch of Peter Salter's first residential building in Britain, this fully illustrated catalogue presents a selection of Salter's extraordinary dra... .... Learn More -
Repentant Abelard: Family, Gender, and Ethics in Peter Abelard's Carmen Ad Astralabium and Planctus [Hardback]
Juanita Feros Ruys (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 9780312240028
Published by : Palgrave
The great medieval thinker Peter Abelard is renowned for his uncompromising and radical approach to ethics and theology, a towering public figure in twelfth-century schools and monasticism. The Repentant Abelard argues, however, t... .... Learn More -
The Honour and Grandeur: Regalia, Gold and Silver at the Mansion House [Paperback]
Ralph Holt (Author); Michael Hall (Author); Clare Gifford (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781907372896
Published by : Sam Fogg
The greatest treasure of the City of London has been, until now, the least known. The unique Crystal Sceptre of c.1420 - seen only at the inauguration of the Lord Mayor and at coronations, and neve... .... Learn More -
Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings [Paperback]
Toby Treves (Editor); Barnaby Wright (Editor)
£25.00ISBN: 9781907372858
Published by : Paul Holberton Publishing
Accompanying a major exhibition at The Courtauld Gallery, this catalogue explores a remarkable and unprecedented series of paintings by Peter Lanyon (1918-1964), one of Britain’s most important and original post-War artists. Learn More -
Inventions, Discoveries and Machines [Paperback]
Pierluigi Bassignana (Editor)
£28.00ISBN: 9788897644255
Published by : CB Edizioni
This book covers a crucial period of Italian history, that of the “Risorgimento” (the Resurgence period of Italian Independence) and the years following the unification, seen from an unusual perspective by Pierluigi Ba... .... Learn More -
Maimonides [Hardback]
Moshe Halbertal (Author)
£39.95ISBN: 9780691158518
Published by : Princeton University Press
Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a c... .... Learn More
