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Artists' Techniques & Materials
An artist's materials - from the broad brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf of a Byzantine mosaic, to the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase - are …
Looking at Paintings – A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition
Fully revised and updated, here is a concise and authoritative guide to the technical terms most commonly used in painting. What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? …
Latin Inscriptions: Ancient Scripts
Visitors to museums or ancient Roman sites are often confronted with Latin texts inscribed on objects or buildings from classical antiquity. To the uninitiated such Latin …
Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J.Paul Getty Museum
This book presents a lavishly illustrated survey of the art of illumination from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It features 71 full-colour reproductions. This …
Insects and Flowers – The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was an intrepid artist and scientist who defied the conventions of her time to pursue her passion for documenting the natural world in all its …
Julia Margaret Cameron Biography
British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) has been described as one of the Finest portraitists of the nineteenth century-in any medium. Raised in a well-connected and …
Pieter de Hooch – A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy
This volume examines 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 …
Death and Resurrection in Art
This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3,000 years of the iconography of death and resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human …
In Focus: Hill and Adamson – Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum
Shortly after the dawn of photography, the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most …
Sophocles' Antigone
Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through …
The J.Paul Getty Museum Handbook of the Collections
Fully revised and updated to include many major new pieces, as well as the more familiar masterpieces that millions of visitors have become acquainted with over the years, this …
Marguerite Makes a Book
In medieval Paris, Marguerite helps her nearly blind father finish painting an illuminated manuscript for his patron, Lady Isabelle