Art
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Carved in Stone: The Artistry of Early New England Gravestones [Paperback]
Thomas E. Gilson (Author); William Gilson (Other)
£18.95ISBN: 9780819501240
Published by : Wesleyan University Press
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Evocative photographs and essay illuminate early American gravestones.
Gravestones are colonial America's earliest sculpture and they provide a unique physical link to the European people who settled here. Carved in Stone book is an elega... .... Learn More -
On Portraiture: (Do Tirar Pelo Natural) [Paperback]
Francisco De Holanda (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781912168118
Published by : Ad Ilissvm
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Francisco de Holanda (1517/18 – 1585) was a court painter, architect and essayist at the Lisbon court of John III of Portugal and Catherine of Austria. Son of the Netherlandish painter and miniaturist, António de Holanda (d. 1557), from whom he le... .... Learn More -
Rocks in Motion: Dakhleh Oasis Petroglyphs in the Context of Paths, Roads and Mobility [Hardback]
Paweł L. Polkowski (Author)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £48.00
ISBN: 9781789259759
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Explorations in Western Desert Rock
Volume: 1
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Rock art in Dakhleh was produced for perhaps as long as 10 millennia, resulting in the formation of hundreds of sites displaying thousands of images. In some places, petroglyphs form a true melting pot of iconographic creations, elsewhere only iso... .... Learn More -
The Wider Goldsmiths' Trade in Elizabethan London [Hardback]
David M. Mitchell (Author)
£80.00ISBN: 9781915401076
Published by : Ad Ilissvm
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The Wider Goldsmiths’ Trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London is the first book to study all aspects of the Goldsmiths’ trade. It challenges the assumption that the manufacture of silver plate and gold jewellery was the company’s only activity dur... .... Learn More -
The McCarthy Collection: Sculpture [Hardback]
Charles T. Little (Author); Miguel Ayres De Campos (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781915401052
Published by : Ad Ilissvm
Series: The McCarthy Collection
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This substantial catalogue explores a remarkable collection of medieval European sculpture. Richly detailed with plentiful illustrations and original research, it is a notable contribution to medieval scholarship.
The McCarthy collection ... .... Learn More -
Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers [Hardback]
Maria Aresin (Editor); Thomas Dalla Costa (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9781915401007
Published by : Ad Ilissvm
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Venetian Disegno: New Frontiers circa 1420 to 1620 offers a fresh perspective on the art of Venice and the Veneto. The volume brings together the contributions of scholars and curators specialist on a wide variety of artists and art forms includin... .... Learn More -
Four Centuries of Blue and White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese & Japanese Export Porcelain [Hardback]
£90.00ISBN: 9781915401090
Published by : Ad Ilissvm
This beautifully illustrated and scholarly book presents the Frelinghuysen collection of Chinese and Japanese export porcelain. It is the first major publication to consider Chinese and Japanese blue and white together.
This extraordinary... .... Learn More -
Listening to What you See: Selected Contributions on Dutch Art [Hardback]
Peter Hecht (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781915401083
Published by : Ad Ilissvm
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This volume brings together over 25 scholarly essays, reviews and shorter contributions by Peter Hecht, preceded by an introduction on what he thinks his life in art history has taught him. The title indicates what his collected papers have in com... .... Learn More -
Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning [Paperback]
Carol Diaz-Granados (Editor)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £30.40
ISBN: 9798888570425
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: American Landscapes
Volume: 9
Explanations in Iconography: Ancient American Indian Art, Symbol, and Meaning is a significant contribution to archaeology and to- iconography studies – a discipline that has gradually been coming into its own. Iconography is a rich and f... .... Learn More -
Late Hokusai: Society, Thought, Technique, Legacy [Paperback]
Timothy Clark (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592319
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 231
This publication has been developed from ideas first presented at the international symposium Late Hokusai: thought, technique, society, held at the British Museum in May 2017. The symposium was organised to enable specialists in a range of discip... .... Learn More