Paintings and painting Books
Reaktion Books Giovanni Bellini
Book SynopsisHailed as the saviour' of Venetian painting by Jacob Burckhardt and declared by Albrecht Durer to be the foremost painter of the city, Giovanni Bellini is a pivotal figure in the development of Italian Renaissance art. With "Giovanni Bellini", renowned art historian Oskar Batschmann charts the fraught trajectory of Bellini's career, highlighting the crucial works that established his far-reaching influence in the Renaissance. The artist struggled to break out of the long shadow cast by his accomplished father Jacopo and father-in-law Andrea Mantegna, and Batschmann chronicles Bellini's development of distinct aesthetic and painting techniques that enabled him to set himself apart. Bellini also insisted on choosing his own subjects and themes, independent of the preferences of his patron Isabella d'Este, and thus set new standards for the role of the artist. Anchoring the analysis are a wealth of vibrant colour reproductions that include such famous works as "The Feast of the Gods" and "Madonna and Child", as well as photographs of Bellini's lauded altar-pieces at the churches of San Giobbe, Murano and San Zaccania. Drawing on these masterpieces, Batschmann argues that Bellini's artistry and skillful blending of colours created a new aesthetic more akin to music than to previous approaches to painting. And by leading viewers to understand this subtle, refined sensibility, Bellini transformed them into knowledgeable admirers of art. A beautifully illustrated and expansive study, "Giovanni Bellini" is essential for all historians and admirers of Renaissance art.Trade Reviewimaginative, rich in insights and exceptionally stimulating ... an admirable monograph which should invigorate Bellini studies ... an elegant volume which makes the products of many university presses look like desktop efforts The Art Newspaper offers a virtuosic analysis of the methods of one of the quattrocento's painterly superstars - Giovanni Bellini - but the general reader will perhaps gain most pleasure from Batschmann's insights into the fierce rivalries between artists, the chaos and clutter of the era's studios and workshops, and the hard-fought battles to secure patronage ... Oskar Batschmann is to be applauded for producing a scholarly yet passionate book and his publishers share their share of the plaudits for allowing it so many wonderful illustrations. The Tablet This splendid monograph is a thoughtful and carefully reasoned presentation of Bellini's career as an artist, with ancillary discussions of contemporary Venetian painting. Batschmann has amassed an extraordinary amount of information - historical, stylistic, bibliographical - in a generally chronological presentation of Bellini's career that covers not only the artist's life and production, but also reconstructions of some of his lost works and references to others that were critical in establishing the artist's reputation ... This book will interest not only students of Bellini, but also those who wish to understand the motivating factors in the history of Venetian Renaissance painting. Recommended. Choice A heavyweight and intellectually solid examination of the way in which architecture, once inseparable from sculpture and painting, was slowly divorced from art. Financial Times A strident mix of academic insight, wit and polemic, Rykwert's latest book, The Judicious Eye, makes a graceful contribution to his life's work. Architects' Journal ... a challenging work, gripping, yet sad and justly angry, on an important and little explored topic. Art Newspaper Are Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Daniel Libeskind architects, or sculptors on a colossal scale? That is a new version of a venerable question: is architecture art? Joseph Rykwert, one of the most distinguished architectural historians, starts his answer to this long-running controversy in the Enlightenment and carries it through with great erudition to the mid-twentieth century. RA Magazine Over seven dense and erudite chapters, Rykwert provides an account, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century and ending in the 1950s, of the gradual loss of a world in which the arts achieved the kind of meaningful integration that properly dignified the public sphere. Despite the invocation of that 'public sphere' in the preface and conclusion, this is far from a sociological study. Rykwert gives the reader a fairly straightforward art historical overview, focusing on specific examples of individual architects, artists, movements, and the occasional theorist or figure from outside the visual arts, wide ranging, but all securely within the canon of 'advanced' European and North American art and architecture ... Oxford Art Journal The culminating work of one of our most distinguished architectural historians, The Judicious Eye represents a lifetime of contemplation and wise insight. This is a deep, wide-ranging, and profound book. Anthony Alofsin, author of When Buildings Speak
£999.99
Auckland University Press Frances Hodgkins: European Journeys
Book SynopsisNew Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Published to coincide with a touring exhibition of her work initiated by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, this book explores Hodgkins as a traveller across cultures and landscapes - teaching and discovering the cubists in Paris, absorbing the landscape and light of Ibiza and Morocco, and exhibiting with the progressive Seven & Five Society in London. Complete with a rich visual chronology of the artist's encounters abroad, alongside over one hundred of Hodgkins' key paintings and drawings, the book is an illuminating journey that moves us from place to place through the writings of a number of distinguished national and international art historians, curators and critics: Frances Spalding (University of Cambridge, England), Alexa Johnston (Auckland-based writer and curator), Elena Taylor (University of New South Wales, Australia), Antoni Ribas Tur (Ara newspaper, Spain), and Julia Waite, Sarah Hillary, Mary Kisler and Catherine Hammond (Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, New Zealand).
£71.25
Brepols N.V. Painting and Patronage in Cologne, 1300-1500
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£73.15
Brepols N.V. Early Netherlandish Painting from Rogier van der
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£91.59
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Simone Martini
£15.53
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Caravaggio
£15.57
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Giovanni Bellini
£15.92
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Leonardo Da Vinci
£14.25
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Masaccio
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Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Raphael
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Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Mantegna
£19.71
Riverside Book Company Duccio
£14.16
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Correggio
£14.34
Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Benozzo Gozzoli
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Riverside Book Co.,U.S. Canaletto
£14.21
Piano Nobile Publications Thomas Newbolt: Paintings
Book SynopsisFirst published to accompany Piano Nobile's exhibiton at Piano Nobile Kings Place, Thomas Newbolt: Drama Paintings - A Modern Baroque, this fully colour illustrated book presents a substantial publication on contemporary artist Thomas Newbolt. Newbolt's dedication to the figure in art, and the vitality of his work have gained him international recognition. An artist of talent and intellectual integrity, he was Harkness Fellow at the University of Virginia and the University of Wisconsin, and a Fellow-Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a respected teacher at Camberwell, Anglia Ruskin and The Royal Drawing School, London. Recent exhibitions include Ely Cathedral, the Estorick Collection, and a group show, Vital Signs, at Clifford Chance in 2015. His work is held in major international public collections. With essays by Mark Hudson, arts critic at the Telegraph, Professor Maurice Biriotti, and Martin Gayford, critic at the Spectator, this catalogue provides fresh insight into the work of this most enigmati and powerful of artists. Lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed as a work of art in its own right, Thomas Newbolt: Paintings is a reflection on Newbolt's career thus far, and a testament to the significance of his work. The publication includes three essays, a catalogue of works selected by Thomas Newbolt, a chronologyof the artist's career and an index.
£42.75
Archetype Publications Ltd Studying and Conserving Paintings: Occasional
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£73.38
Archetype Publications Ltd Greek Painting Techniques and Materials: From the
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£83.17
Brepols N.V. Rubens in London: Art and Diplomacy
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£89.54
Brepols N.V. Portraits After Existing Prototypes
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£195.13
Archetype Publications Ltd Public Paintings by Edvard Munch and His
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£142.82
Anomie Publishing Matthew Krishanu
Book SynopsisMatthew Krishanu’s paintings explore topics including childhood, race, religion, art history, family, grief and love. His subjects – frequently Brown people, especially children – are realised with a shallow pictorial depth, delicate washes of colour, and with a sense of interior life. Through this, Krishanu questions the positions of his painterly subjects and depictions of landscapes in relation to the legacy of European colonialism and the art historical canon. Krishanu’s practice is heavily informed by his early childhood spent in Dhaka where his parents moved in order to work for the Church of Bangladesh.This, his first trade monograph, presents a number of series of Krishanu’s works: Another Country, Expatriates, Mission, House of God, Religious Workers and In Sickness and In Health. The paintings included have been made in oil and/or acrylic on canvas, linen or board, with the earliest produced in 2007 and most recent completed in 2022.The publication features essays by Mark Rappolt and Dorothy Price, alongside an interview with the artist by Ben Luke. Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief at ArtReview magazine, details the various worlds present within Krishanu’s paintings. He draws out key themes within Krishanu’s oeuvre such as power, religion, identity and memory, while highlighting its distance from didacticism, and at times, its carefully constructed ambivalence, through examination of key works such as Mission School (2017), Mountain Tent (Two Boys) (2020) and Playground (2020). Price, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at The Courtauld, writes sensitively about solitude, memory and emotion which are palpable within Krishanu’s work. In particular, the series In Sickness and In Health, which traces a life path of Uschi Gatward, the artist’s late wife, over sixteen years to her untimely death from cancer in late 2021. The series is foregrounded as a significant and intimate body of work that subtly shifts over the time period it depicts. In a new interview with Luke, a critic and editor at The Art Newspaper, Krishanu discusses his practice in relation to ideas of religion, race, global art history, photography, health and personal experiences. Krishanu’s work explores, in the artist’s own words, ‘the puzzle of painting’.The publication has been edited by Georgia Griffiths and Matt Price. It has been designed by Joe Gilmore, printed and bound by EBS, Verona, and produced by Anomie Publishing and Niru Ratnam, London. The publication has been supported by Guy Halamish; Jhaveri Contemporary, Mumbai; Niru Ratnam, London; Taimur Hassan; and Tanya Leighton, Berlin and Los Angeles.Matthew Krishanu (b.1980) was born in Bradford and is based in London. He completed an MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include ‘Playground’, Niru Ratnam (2022), ‘Undercurrents’, LGDR, New York (2022), ‘Picture Plane’, Niru Ratnam, London (2020), ‘Arrow and Pulpit’, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2021), ‘Corvus’, Iniva, London (2019), ‘House of Crows’, Matt’s Gallery, London (2019), ‘A Murder of Crows’, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2019), ‘The Sun Never Sets’, Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, (2019) and ‘The Sun Never Sets’, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield (2018). He has recently been in the group exhibitions ‘The Kingfisher’s Wing’, GRIMM, New York (2022), ‘Prophecy’, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre (2022), ‘Mixing It Up: Painting Today’, Hayward Gallery, London (2021), ‘Coventry Biennial’, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, Leamington Spa and Herbert Art Gallery & Museum (2021), ‘John Moores Painting Prize’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2021), ‘Everyday Heroes’, Hayward Gallery/Southbank Centre (2020) and ‘A Rich Tapestry’, Lahore Biennale (2020).
£24.00
Anomie Publishing ChibụIke ỤzọMa – to Kick a Stone
Book SynopsisChibụike Ụzọma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, text and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut.Documented here are sixteen of the artist’s large paintings rendered in oil and acrylic or acrylic spray paint on canvas, made in 2022. Accompanying an exhibition of the same name at Simon Lee Gallery, London, the first solo exhibition of his work in the UK, this publication is the fourth pillar of a collaborative project by the artist, setting his own paintings in relation to video and audio works by Edward Owens and João Orecchia respectively. Ụzọma works with non-linear narratives, using a mix of painting languages that dodges and weaves the liminal spaces between representation and meaning. Fragments of stencilled letters jolt against textured pools of paint, and diaphanous figures are cropped by cinematic horizons. Comprising colourful, abstruse portraiture against stark black and white backgrounds, the paintings in 'To Kick a Stone' are deeply suggestive, but ultimately formalist explorations of shape and composition.An introduction by Kat Sapera, Director of Simon Lee Gallery, draws upon her first encounters with the artist and details the influence of philosophy and the act of looking. Sapera brings the collaboration with Orecchia and Owens to the forefront of her discussion while touching on Ụzọma’s making processes.In an essay by Ụzọma, the artist himself writes lyrically upon subjects including poetry, religion, good and evil, in order to bring a number of key concepts that circle his work into the field of view.Essays by Bishupal Limbu, Associate Professor of English at Portland State University, and by Carlos Valladares, writer and critic, help amass a portrait of an artist whose enquiry is informed by film, philosophy and pictorial language – with the layering, unravelling and opening-up of narrative as a core focus. Their writing brings key art historical figures into dialogue with Ụzọma’s work.Lastly, the artist appears in conversation with writer and curator Ekow Eshun. This frank and illuminating conversation provides insight into the artist’s painting practice, previous series of works and intentions, while also discussing issues of identity and Blackness. Their interview further reflects on past exhibitions, connections with other key artists and Ụzọma’s recent MFA studies at Yale.Published on the occasion of the exhibition Chibụike Ụzọma – To Kick a Stone, 19 January – 25 February 2023, Simon Lee Gallery, London.Edited by Kat Sapera, designed by Joe Gilmore, printed by Pressision, Leeds and co-published in 2023 by Simon Lee Gallery and Anomie Publishing, London.Chibụike Ụzọma (b. 1992, Port Harcourt, Nigeria), is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, photography, drawing, text and video, living and working in New Haven, Connecticut. Ụzọma received his BFA from the University of Benin, an MFA from Yale University School of Art and was awarded the Francis Greenburger Fellowship in 2018. His work is included in the public collections of Kistefos Museum, Jevnaker, Norway; Didi Museum, Lagos, Nigeria and Fotohof Salzburg, Austria. Recent exhibitions include Pace, New York, NY (2021); Lyles & King, New York, NY (2021); Everard Read, Cape Town, South Africa (2019); Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Florida, FL (2019); Circa Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa (2017); and D-Contemporary Gallery, London, UK (2017).
£19.00
Anomie Publishing Jonathan Wateridge – Uncertain Swimmer
Book SynopsisUncertain Swimmer is the second monograph on the work of British artist Jonathan Wateridge (b. 1972, Lusaka, Zambia), presenting around eighty paintings and works on paper made between 2019 and 2022. Following on from the bodies of work Enclave and Expatria (2016–18), Uncertain Swimmer develops the artist’s interest in modes of representation and the legacies of twentieth-century modernist painting through a visual and social exploration of the motif of the pool, depicting swimmers and sunbathers, often by night. Far from being an escapist environment of aspiration and privilege, Wateridge imbues the pool with a disquieting atmosphere, creating a cumulative feeling of unease and ennui among those present, now seemingly unsure of their world.The publication charts a marked evolution in the artist’s style from the realism of his earlier paintings with complex multi-figure compositions to more solitary, gestural and expressive works. His masterly application of paint takes new forms in the beautiful, curious and often haunting paintings and works on paper showcased here. Art historian and curator Marco Livingstone’s essay considers the change from Wateridge’s naturalistic paintings to the flattened, reduced shapes, forms and lines of the modernism- and abstraction-infused pieces he is making today. Francis Bacon, Edvard Munch and Paul Cézanne are among numerous art historical influences cited by Livingstone, who ruminates on the identity of the people in Wateridge’s portraits and the mercurial spaces they occupy, examining how Wateridge’s current critical preoccupations have transitioned from the autobiographical to more formal concerns.In the featured conversation between Wateridge and fellow painter Caroline Walker, the two artists discuss their overlapping experiences studying painting at Glasgow, as well as Wateridge’s fourteen-year break from painting until 2005. He eventually returned to the medium when he realised it excited him more than anything else. Wateridge elaborates on his fascinating painting process, staging shoots in studios with hired actors and using elements from the photographs in the paintings, often over a period of years. On his canvases, he will scrape back the paint and reapply it, frequently taking pictures of the paintings in their various stages; he will then print the photographs and draw over them to continue working out what he will do with the final paintings. For Wateridge, a painting works when it stops failing, and he embraces unforeseen conclusions.Jonathan Wateridge has recently exhibited with the Hayward Gallery, London; Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, New York and Brussels; TJ Boulting, London; Galerie Haas, Zurich; Pace Gallery and HENI, London. Wateridge's art is in the collections of institutions worldwide, including Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; Pinault Foundation, Venice; the Saatchi Collection, London; the Rennie Collection, Vancouver; and Simmons & Simmons, London. He has been featured in publications such as The Sunday Times, The Independent, Fad Magazine, Artforum and Artnet. Wateridge is represented by Nino Mier Gallery.
£40.00
Anomie Publishing Attila SzűCs – Portraits of the Last Golden Age
Book SynopsisPortraits of the Last Golden Age is the latest major monograph on the work of Budapest-based artist Attila Szűcs (b.1967, Miskolc, Hungary), one of the leading painters in Hungary today. Following on from his 2016 monograph, Specters and Experiments, published by Hatje Cantz, Portraits of the Last Golden Age features a substantial in-conversation between Szűcs and Sándor Hornyik, an art historian, curator and senior research fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest. ‘Mankind is in an extremely tense situation,’ Szűcs asserts, ‘with the escalation of natural disasters, with artificial intelligence getting out of hand, the world can easily take a dystopian turn.’ During the course of the conversation, the two men discuss topics ranging from portraiture to posthumanism, meditation to metaphysics, intuition to the irrational.In addition to presenting examples of Szűcs’ accomplished and haunting monochrome works on paper employing materials such as acrylic, charcoal and graphite, the publication features over seventy oil paintings made between 2019 and 2023 depicting dark dreamscapes and transcendental scenes of alternate realities. Disembodied hands grab or caress, as if apparitions from another dimension; sleeping figures exhale multi-coloured breath that verges on the supernatural; long golden hair flows down the side of a bed, pooling on the floor like an uncanny waterfall; heads float in dark water as if decapitated; otherworldly fires rage while apocalyptic explosions highlight environmental disasters and humankind’s seemingly unstoppable drive towards auto-destruction. Szűcs’ work is both an exploration into the human psyche and into the universe itself, much of which is as-yet unknown: quantum worlds and multiverses, the complexities of time and space, and the possibilities of an afterlife. Bleak yet beautiful, dark yet dazzling, Szűcs’ practice asks what painting can bring to twenty-first century thinking and image-making.Produced by Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, and co-published by Anomie Publishing, London, the publication features texts in English and Hungarian (translated by Dániel Sipos), was designed by Géza Ipacs, and printed and bound by EPC Nyomda, Budaörs.Attila Szűcs (b.1967, Miskolc, Hungary) is an artist based in Budapest. Solo shows include Portraits of the Last Golden Age, Erika Deák Gallery, Budapest, 2023; Duplicated Dreamer, FL Gallery/Wizard, Milan, 2022; Transhuman Etudes, Centrul de Interes, Cluj-Napoca, 2020; Preparing for Lightness, Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Düsseldorf, 2017; and Specters and Experiments, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2016. Group exhibitions include Becoming. The force of existence, HAB, Art Center Budapest, 2023; Men, The male body in Robert Runtak's collection, The South Bohemian Gallery, Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, 2022; You know who, Ömer Koç Collection, Abdülmecid Efendi Mansion, Istanbul, 2022; and Ludwig-30-Costumize/Testreszabás, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2019.
£33.25
Anomie Publishing Duncan Wylie Multiple Realities
Book SynopsisA publication dedicated to Duncan Wylie's practice, exploring the evolution of his distinctive paintings between 2005 and 2025. It includes an introduction by curator Adelaide Bannerman, an interview by museum director Juliette Singer, and texts by Zimbabwe-based critic and gallerist Valerie Kabov and writer and curator, Marc Donnadieu.
£47.50
ATF Press Chinese Masters of the 20th Century Volumes 1 Art
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£103.05
ATF Press Chinese Masters of the 20th Century Volumes 3 Art
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£103.05
Shanghai Press Chinese Brush Painting Four Seasons: Paint
Book SynopsisThis book combines Chinese painting techniques with twenty-four solar terms of traditional Chinese culture. According to the sequence of the four seasons—spring, summer, autumn, and winter—natural scenes are refined into a series of charming ink paintings. Following the tutorials in this book, you can complete beautiful ink and wash paintings in just a few strokes. In this book: •Starting with the most basic knowledge, you will gain an understanding of the classification and characteristics of the brush, ink, paper, inkstone, and pigment. •You can gradually move from superficial to deeper techniques as they are integrated into the tutorials, including a total of more than 30 painting techniques that can be easily learned through practice. •Follow meticulous graphic steps and intimate key tips to complete 24 fine ink paintings with rich themes centered around flowers, birds, vegetables and fruits, fish and insects, and landscapes. •Gain inspiration to integrate these paintings into life and turn them into practical items which can be used to decorate your home or as gifts. •Easily copied images and the spine binding design make it easy to spread the book evenly as you practice.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One Tools and Materials 1. Paintbrush 2. Ink 3. Paper 4. Inkstone 5. Pigment Chapter Two Spring Painting 1. Beginning of Spring 2. Rain Water 3. Awakening of Insects 4. Spring Equinox 5. Pure Brightness 6. Grain Rain Chapter Three Summer Painting 1. Beginning of Summer 2. Grain Buds 3. Grain in Ear 4. Summer Solstice 5. Minor Heat 6. Major Heat Chapter Four Autumn Painting 1. Beginning of Autumn 2. End of Heat 3. White Dew 4. Autumn Equinox 5. Cold Dew 6. Frost’s Descent Chapter Five Winter Painting 1. Beginning of Winter 2. Minor Snow 3. Major Snow 4. Winter Solstice 5. Minor Cold 6. Major Cold
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Brepols N.V. The Retablo De Isabel La Catolica by Juan De
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Brepols N.V. The Flemish Primitives
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£119.52
Brepols N.V. Flemish Wall Painting
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£130.24
Brepols N.V. Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes,
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£78.85
Brepols N.V. Making and Marketing: Studies of the Painting
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£100.49
Brepols N.V. Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545-c. 1589): Portrait
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£112.64
Brepols N.V. In the Footsteps of Christ: Hans Memling's
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£124.10
Brepols N.V. Elisabetta Sirani 'Virtuosa': Women's Cultural
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£202.26
Brepols N.V. Willem Key (1516-1568): Portrait of a Humanist
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£159.38
Brepols N.V. The Notion of the Painter-Architect in Italy and
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£132.40
Bohlau Verlag Geschichte Der Venezianischen Malerei: Paolo
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£93.10
Bohlau Verlag Palais Ephrussi
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£57.28
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Geschichte Der Venezianischen Malerei: Band 2:
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£93.10
Bohlau Verlag Hans Winkler (1919-2000): Informelle Malerei als
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£76.29
Dietrich Reimer Bilder Des Alterns: Greise Korper in Kunst Und
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£999.99
Dietrich Reimer Fighting for Visibility: Woman Artists in the
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£38.00
Dietrich Reimer Kult Und Kunst - Kopie Und Original: Altarbilder
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£64.60
Dietrich Reimer Die Sudseeblase in Der Englischen Kunst Des 18.
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£999.99
Hirmer Verlag Emil Jakob Schindler Poetic Realism
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£999.99
