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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? …
Looking at European Frames – A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques
This is a concise yet detailed and informative guide to the terms, styles, and techniques of European frame making. Works of art in their own right, frames play an essential and …
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 …
Gardens in Art
An intriguing and richly illustrated analysis of the symbolic imagery found in gardens throughout history, this work features dedicated mailing to targeted art and gardening …
Lives of Titian
Biographical accounts by several of Titian's contemporaries, including Giorgio Vasari and Pietro Aretino, trace the fascinating and prolific life of this master of the Italian …
Cuneiform: Ancient Scripts
Cuneiform script on clay tablets is, as far as we know, the oldest form of writing in the world. The resilience of clay has permitted these records to survive for thousands of …
In Focus: August Sander – Photographs from the J.Paul Getty Museum
A collection of photographs by the German photographer August Sander. The book contains 55 plates with commentaries on each by Claudia Bohn-Spector. The book includes an edited …
The Letters of Paul Cézanne
Book of the Year, Apollo Magazine, 2013 Revered and misunderstood by his peers and lauded by later generations as the father of modern art, Paul C zanne (1839-1906) has long been …
Secrets of Pompeii – Everyday Life in Ancient Rome
This title presents a lavishly illustrated and fascinating exploration of the art, architecture, and archaeology of one of the world's best preserved Roman cities. The remains of …
Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors
Paul C zanne (1839-1906) was one of the most influential artists of his day, producing work derived from "the most acute sensibility at grips with the most searching rationality" …
Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) had a short but prolific career as a photographer, taking up the camera in her late forties. Her work, with its distinctive, softly focused …
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 …