Art
Art and artists from the earliest rock art to the flowering of the Renaissance and diverse contemporary work.
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On Portraiture: (Do Tirar Pelo Natural) [Paperback]
Francisco De Holanda (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9781912168118
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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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 ... .... Learn MoreFive and One Theses on Modernity: Buenos Aires Across the Arts, 1921-1939 [Hardback]
Eleni Kefala (Author)
£41.50ISBN: 9780822946922
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Illuminations
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- .... Learn MoreMagnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic [Hardback]
Karla Huebner (Author)
£77.50ISBN: 9780822946472
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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Part art book and part biography, Magnetic Woman examines the life and work of the artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902–80), a founding member of the Prague surrealist group, and focuses on her construction of gender and eroticism. Toyen’s early li... .... Learn MoreLeaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of 17th-Century Chinese Porcelain [Hardback]
Teresa Canepa (Author); Katharine Butler (Author)
£175.00ISBN: 9781912168163
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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This book celebrates the most important collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain in the world, assembled by the distinguished British diplomat Sir Michael Butler. His passion for porcelain is clearly reflected in the over eight hundred pieces ... .... Learn MoreTitian: Sources and Documents [Hardback]
Charles Hope (Author)
£500.00ISBN: 9781912168231
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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Hugely ambitious, Titian: Sources and Documents includes all known documents about Titian and his work dating from his lifetime, and all known references to him in contemporary publications. The relevant section of each text is transcribe... .... Learn MoreThe Origins of Art and Music: Ice Age Discoveries from the Caves of Southwestern Germany [Hardback]
Nicholas J. Conard (Author); Claus-Joachim Kind (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9783935751339
Published by : Kerns Verlag
Series: Tübingen Publications in Prehistory
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Over 40,000 years ago modern Homo sapiens spread across the European continent. Archaeological finds attributed to these early human beings were produced on the Swabian Jura in Southwest Germany, especially in the caves of the Ach and Lone valleys... .... Learn MoreA History of Arcadia in Art and Literature [Hardback]
Paul Holberton (Author)
£100.00ISBN: 9781912168248
Published by : Ad Ilissum
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Long anticipated and hugely welcome, Paul Holberton's A History of Arcadia is a close and thorough examination of a great number of original texts of classical and early and later modern pastoral poetry, literature and drama in ancient Greek, Lati... .... Learn MoreDesign and Techniques in Early Medieval Celtic Metalwork [Hardback]
Niamh Whitfield (Author)
£150.00ISBN: 9781904597339
Published by : Pindar Press
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Niamh Whitfield is a leading authority on the metalwork of early Medieval Ireland and Scotland. Celtic metalwork of the seventh to twelfth centuries is extremely accomplished technically, and she has aimed at a thorough understanding of its manufa... .... Learn MoreThe Watercolors of Harlan Hubbard [Hardback]
Harlan Hubbard (Author); Bill Caddell (Author); Flo Caddell (Author); Peter Morrin (Author); Jessica Whitehead (Other)
£30.50ISBN: 9780813179766
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988), Kentucky writer, environmentalist and artist, spent many years trying to rediscover and revive the vanishing language of landscape in his watercolor paintings. Known for their sense of drifting movement and their depict... .... Learn MoreA Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives: The Royal Clock Salt [Paperback]
Timothy Schroder (Editor); Dora Thornton (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592272
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 227
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At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by Pierre Mangot, the royal goldsmith to Francis I, the Clock Salt is som... .... Learn More