History of art Books
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Bastions of the Cross
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£999.99
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection Dumbarton Oaks Papers 77
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£83.96
University of Washington Press Africa in the Market
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MP-TAM Texas A&M University The Power of Place Defining Material Culture in
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£15.26
MP-TAM Texas A&M University Santa Barraza Artist of the Borderlands Artist
Book SynopsisA study of 34 paintings by Santa Barraza, who depicts the historical, emotional and spiritual land between Mexico and Texas, between present reality and the mythic world of the ancient Aztecs and Mayas. The work includes analyses of the forces that have shaped Barraza as a Chicana artist.
£31.96
Getty Trust Publications Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Fascicule 1
Book SynopsisThis historic 1933 publication documents the important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Italian pottery assembled in the early years of what is now the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
£76.50
Getty Publications Irises Vincent Van Gogh in the Garden
Book Synopsis. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperating from a period of mental illness. Featuring colour illustrations, this title presents a study of this Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings.Trade Review"How well he understood the exquisite nature of flowers!" - Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917) French art critic and first owner of Irises"
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications Masaccio Saint Andrew and the Pisa Altarpiece
Book SynopsisAn exploration of the Pisa Altarpiece, Masaccio's multi-panelled painting of which the Saint Andrew panel is thought to have once formed a part. It discusses Masaccio's short life and illustrious career; the commission of the altarpiece; its patron and programme; its original location; and more.
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Getty Trust Publications The Gualenghi DEste Hours Art and Devotion in
Book SynopsisA study of a manuscript created in 1469 by Taddeo Crevelli, an Italian illuminator of manuscripts. Kurt Barstow discusses each of Crevelli's paintings and relates its iconography to other devotional images of the time. All 24 of Crevelli's images are reproduced along with sample leaves.
£85.50
Getty Trust Publications The History of Alexander the Great
Book SynopsisReproduces 14 images from a 15th century manuscript, now in the J. Paul Getty Musuem. The commentary places the manuscript within its context as an account of Alexander's life.
£109.25
Getty Trust Publications French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul
Book SynopsisA survey of the Getty Museum's 17th- and 18th-century French textiles. The book includes lists of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used. Also included is an accompanying commentary.
£71.10
Getty Trust Publications Going to the Getty
Book SynopsisThis children's book takes a tour through the Getty Museum, adjacent gardens, conservation laboratories and other sites at the Getty Center. It features the colourful, humorous characters Milli Ennium, Quincy and their cohorts.
£15.19
Getty Trust Publications Dossos Fate Painting and Court Culture in
Book SynopsisArising from the proceedings of two symposia, this text is composed of contributions by scholars who examine the social, intellectual and historical contexts of the work of the Italian Renaissance artist Giovanni di Lutero, who used the name Dosso.
£42.75
Getty Trust Publications Victory of the New Building Style Texts
Book SynopsisIn this volume, first published in German in 1927, Walter Curt Behrendt presents a revisionist concept of style that places equal emphasis on form and function. Behrendt calls on architects to return to basic geometries and to express the new social and economic realities.
£28.50
Getty Trust Publications Greek Funerary Sculpture Catalogue of the
Book SynopsisA discussion of 59 Greek funerary monuments at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The title considers their relationships to the art and society of the period. It should be suitable for scholars and students of antiquities, and museum and art libraries.
£61.75
Getty Trust Publications The Stammheim Missal
Book SynopsisThis missal from the mid-12th century was used in the Church's liturgical rites. The major illuminated pages are reproduced along with a text that explains the iconography and historical context of the manuscript. The essay explains the profound theological statements found in the imagery.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications Manuel Alvarez Bravo In Focus Photographs from
Book SynopsisIn eight decades photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo created works of art that display an array of styles and themes. This volume contains 50 images with extended commentaries on each by Robert Tejada, a curator and critic. There is also a transcript of a symposium on Manuel Alvarez Bravo.
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Getty Trust Publications Summary Catalogue of European Decorative Arts in
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the European decorative art in the Getty Museum. It features photographs of each object, and identifies its creator or manufacturer, its materials, and the date it was created. Provenance information is provided for each object along with a bibliography of related reading.
£52.25
Getty Trust Publications Observations on the Letter of Monsieur Mariette
Book SynopsisPublished in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Osservazioni is an impassioned defence of the superiority of Roman architectural invention over the beautiful and noble simplicity of Ancient Greece. This is an English translation of Piranesi's three-part polemical work.
£28.50
Getty Trust Publications A Royal Menagerie Meissen Porcelain Animals
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the almost life-size porcelain animals created for the elector of Saxony and king of Poland, Augustus the Strong, in 1735. This was perhaps the most significant commission for porcelain ever executed in Europe. The text discusses the challenges and solutions the work demanded.
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Getty Trust Publications Bellottos Grand Canal Seeing Venice Getty Trust
Book SynopsisAn examination of Bernardo Bellotto's View of the Grand Canal, a visual record of life in 18th-century Venice. The volume presents the painting in a series of details that allow the reader to examine it closely and the book jacket opens to become a small poster of the entire painting.
£13.99
Getty Trust Publications In Focus William Henry Fox Talbot Photographs
Book SynopsisA study of the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, who is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. It reproduces 50 of his photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, along with commentary on each. There is also an edited transcript of a colloquium on Talbot's career.
£16.14
Getty Trust Publications The Ruins of the Most Beautiful Monuments of
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1758, this was the book that brought the wonders of Greek classical architecture to the notice of the Western world. This is a translation of the second, considerably expanded, edition of 1770.
£47.50
Getty Trust Publications Italian Ceramics Catalogue of the J.Paul Getty
Book SynopsisIn 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes and a tabletop with hunting scenes.
£67.50
Getty Trust Publications Gustave Le Gray 18201884
Book SynopsisAn assessment of the important place of Gustave Le Gray in the history of photography. A young painter in Rome, then a fashionable portrait photographer in Paris, Le Gray received commissions from Napoleon III, and fled to Palermo and then Egypt when faced with bankruptcy.
£42.75
Getty Trust Publications World Rock Art
Book SynopsisAn illustrated study of rock art, perhaps the oldest form of artistic endeavour. An introductory chapter discusses the discovery of rock art and the importance of landscape and ritual. Subsequent chapters survey rock art sites worldwide, explaining how the art can be dated and how it was made.
£24.70
Getty Trust Publications Sculpture in the National Archaeological Museum
Book SynopsisA catalogue of the sculptures on display in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Each entry features a full bibliography and is written for both experts and the general reading public. The introduction offers an overview of sculpture from the archaic period to the end of antiquity.
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Getty Trust Publications The Spitz Master A Parisian Book of Hours
Book SynopsisA study of the Spitz book of hours, one of the finest French manuscripts in the collections of the Getty Museum, painted in the International style. Gregory Clark places the manuscript in the turbulent context of Parisian culture around 1420. All the book's miniatures are reproduced in colour.
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Getty Trust Publications Saints in Art
Book SynopsisA guide to identifying Christian saints as they are portrayed in art. From Agatha to Zeno, it presents the characteristic features of over 100 saints, with notes on their lives and martyrdom and visual references to help readers recognize them. The resource features a collection of masterpieces.
£20.89
Getty Trust Publications The Villa del Papiri at Herculaneum Life and
Book SynopsisThe Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum buried during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in A.D. 79, then rediscovered in 1750 contained a large collection of bronze and marble statuary and busts.
£67.50
Getty Trust Publications History of Restoration of Ancient Stone
Book SynopsisThe 19 papers in this volume stem from a symposium that brought together academics, archaeologists, museum curators, conservators and a practising marble sculptor to discuss varying approaches to restoration of ancient stone sculptures.
£52.25
Getty Trust Publications Odd Man Out Readings of the Work and Reputation
Book SynopsisCarol Armstrong offers an important study of Edgar Degas's work and reputation. Armstrong grapples with contradictory portrayals of Degas as odd man out within the modernist canon. She shows how our critical and popular expectations of Degas are overturned and subverted.
£24.70
Getty Trust Publications Early Netherlandish Paintings Rediscovery
Book SynopsisRather than offering a chronological discussion, this book presents early Netherlandish paintings as individual objects that have confronted scholars with countless interpretive challenges. Divided into three parts, it advances the scholarly dialogue about an important period in European art, by assembling scholarly research in the field.
£52.25
Getty Trust Publications European Art of the Fifteenth Century
Book SynopsisAnalyzes the most important people, places, and concepts of the early Renaissance period, whose explosion of creativity was to spread throughout Europe in the 16th century. In this book, important facts are called out in the margins of each entry, and key elements are pointed out on each illustration.
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Getty Trust Publications Nicolas Lancret Dance Before a Fountain
Book SynopsisSeeks to familiarize American audiences with Nicolas Lancret(1690-1743), a master of the genre of fete galante, who was a revered painter in his own time, rivalling his contemporaries Antoine Watteau and Francois Boucher, and a favourite of crowned heads across Europe.
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Getty Trust Publications Pieter de Hooch A Woman Preparing Bread and
Book SynopsisExamines the painting in relation to the artist's life and works, explores his stylistic development, and considers as well, his often complex relationship with other artists. This work also looks at the subject matter of the piece within the broader historical context of 17th-century Dutch concepts of domesticity and parenthood.
£18.99
Getty Trust Publications European Art of the Sixteenth Century
Book SynopsisIn the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent. Part of the Art through the Centuries series, this volume is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centres of this period.
£20.89
Getty Trust Publications European Art of the Fourteenth Century
Book SynopsisThe effects of war and famine in Europe, in the 14th century, lead to a widespread mystical religiosity, which emphasised both joy and suffering. This in turn inspired the creation of some of the most magnificent religious art of the period. This illustrated work highlights the most important artists, works, concepts and theories of the period.
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Getty Trust Publications The Blind Spot
Book SynopsisBeginning in the seventeenth century, many of Europe's greatest writers and artists became embroiled in a debate that centered on the priority of paintings or sculpture, touch or sight, colour or design, ancient or modern. This title lets us eavesdrop on a contentious topic that preoccupied European intellectuals for three hundred years.
£28.50
Getty Trust Publications The Getty Murua Essays on the Making of Martin
Book SynopsisHere is a set of essays on Historia general del Piru that discuss not only the manuscript's physical componentsquires and watermarks, scripts and pigmentsbut also its relation to other Andean manuscripts, Inca textiles, European portraits, and Spanish sources and publication procedures. The sum is an unusually detailed and interdisciplinary analysis of the creation and fate of a historical and artistic treasure.
£33.25
Getty Trust Publications Fragonards Allegories of Love J Paul Getty Museum
Book SynopsisJean-Honore Fragonard was a French painter whose manner is distinguished by remarkable facility, exuberance, and hedonism. His series of works known as the 'Allegories of Love' display an atmosphere of intimacy. This volume presents an analysis of the compositions, iconography and sources of the Allegories in their historical and artistic context.
£24.70
Getty Trust Publications Faces of Power and Piety BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA
Book SynopsisPart of the Medieval Imagination series, this title explores portraiture in the medieval and Renaissance periods.Trade Review"Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students."--SchoolArts Magazine "This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them."--The Bloomsbury Review Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students. SchoolArts Magazine" This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them. The Bloomsbury Review" Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students. "SchoolArts Magazine" """ This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them. "The Bloomsbury Review" """ "Recommended as an art history resource for middle and high-school students."--"SchoolArts Magazine""" "This is a charming book, accessible to readers of all ages, whether for the pictures alone or the wonderful stories told through them."--"The Bloomsbury Review"""
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Getty Trust Publications The History of the Church in Art
Book SynopsisPresents a history of Christian Church as portrayed throughout Western art. This book examines artistic representations of liturgical objects - including altars, crosses, and censers. It offers an analysis of the lives and portraits of notable leaders, from Peter and Paul to Thomas More and Pope Paul VI.Trade Review"A well-produced guide to Christian art." International Review of Biblical Studies " "A well-produced guide to Christian art." "International Review of Biblical Studies"" "A well-produced guide to Christian art."--"International Review of Biblical Studies"
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Getty Trust Publications Death and Resurrection in Art
Book SynopsisAs one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is also one of the oldest and most common themes in art. This title presents an illustrated exploration of 3,000 years of the iconography of death and resurrection in world art.
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Getty Trust Publications Sculpture and Enlightenment
Book SynopsisExplores the ways in which the aesthetics of public art were affected by the social, political, and cultural changes of the Enlightenment. This book chronicles the transformation of public art in eighteenth-century France.
£38.00
Getty Trust Publications Paragons and Paragone Van Eyck Raphael
Book SynopsisProvides an exploration of the rivalry that existed between the artists of the Renaissance & Baroque eras. This title features essays on Renaissance and Baroque art that reveal the paragone to be a crucial motive and key to the interpretation of some of the most celebrated works of art such as Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece and Michelangelo's Pieta.
£35.00
Getty Trust Publications Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of
Book SynopsisIn an era of intense religious conflict in Europe, the Ceremonies et costumes religieuses de tous les peoples du monde (1723-37), written by Jean Frederic Bernard, set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world's religions. The authors approach this work from a variety of angles.
£52.25
Getty Trust Publications Printing the Grant Manner Charles Le Brun and
Book SynopsisThe brilliant age of Louis XIV saw the creation of a collection of unusually large prints - some of which measure as much as fifteen square feet when assembled. This title presents a survey of the print works of Charles Le Brun, and court painter to Louis XIV.
£42.75
