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William Blake (1757-1827), hailed as 'the glorious luminary' by William Rossetti, is one of the great mystics in the history of Western art. This v...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted some of the 19th century's most spectacular portraits, particularly of three very different women who were his muses...

Anthony Dawton has worked as a photographer in some of the most deprived areas of the world, raising awareness of poverty and suffering. Shocked, o...

The robin was hardly understood when David Lack - Britain's most influential ornithologist - started his scientific observations. This book is a la...

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Zola's writings on Manet, the most important of which are presented in this volume, were the first to identify the painter's seminal role in the em...

One of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and akey document of the Renaissance. Written by a friend, fellowpainter and fellow Flor...

This volume brings together ground-breaking and intenselypersonal memoirs of Degas, by Moore, the first writer in Englishon Impressionism, and Sick...

One of the best loved painters in English history, ThomasGainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the mostpersonally engaging. Bon vivant, wit, ama...

Titian was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian...

The Life of Raphael is a keytext not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art -whose development and chronology Vasari describes in detail, t...

The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. A witty, elegant, opinionated pilgrimage of t...

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The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art.

The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. These three biographies of the artist show th...

In his day, John Ruskin was revered as an art critic - champion of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites - as well as an artist, educator and campaigner. ...

Publisher: Pallas AtheneAuthor(s): John RamsdenNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 136 x 204 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

Publisher: Pallas Athene PublishersAuthor(s): Margaret MacdonaldIllustration(s): 40 colour and black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 40Publ...

Following on from the success of her large book, TastingGeorgia: A Food and Wine Journey in the Caucasus, awardwinningfood, wine and travel writer ...

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Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, f...

Witty, urbane insights on life, art, and culture from Aubrey Beardsley, illustrated with selected drawings from his Grotesques series.

The cult guide to the A272 - now in a revised fourth edition.

For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessentialRenaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci wasa painter, architect, theatre designer, engineer, ...

Fully illustrated with many details, this publication marks the first time the 24 Woburn Canalettos have been reproduced in colour. An extensive in...

This elegant and concise introduction to the baroque and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, not long befo...

Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully th...

Vincent van Gogh's short, passionate life was driven by an almost unimaginable creative energy that eventually overwhelmed him. It is Jo van Gogh-B...

DescriptionRuskin is one of the most influential and exhilarating writers in English. Art critic, architectural visionary, social reformer, climate...

The last work of Burne-Jones: a series of woodcut illustrations to the first chapters of Genesis, making a perfect epitome of his art. Reprinted fr...

The first facsimile of Ruskin's epoch-making 'Nature of Gothic' as printed by his disciple William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Essays by special...

Discover half-hidden chateaux and artists' country houses; walk, boat or dance by the river; explore old towns and country footpaths; and eat in fa...

What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their heyday, roughly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of ...

Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve - and how?Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere.

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Joining this year's fourth-centenary celebrations, this flipbook is a delightful catalogue of Shakespeare's plays. It is also the only unpublished ...

Award-winning food writer and photographer Capalbo has travelled Georgia collecting recipes and gathering stories from food and winemakers in this ...

Provides a portrait of a day in the life of an artist at work and at home. This novel features Monet, his wife, Alice, grieving for a lost daughter...

The battleship Yamato, of the Imperial Japanese Navy, was the most powerful warship of World War II and represented the climax, as it were, of the ...

Reducere. Proverbs bring color to our speech. A way to understand a foreign culture is to learn some of its proverbs. This book presents a selection of more ...

Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguablythe greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. Hisastonishing naturalism revolut...

Reducere. Proverbs bring color to our speech. A way to understand a foreign culture is to learn its proverbs. This book presents a selection of more than 700...

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The most important contemporary appreciation of Hogarth, by one of the leading figures of the German enlightenment, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg ('s...

Reducere. The main body of the present book is a presentation of 62 Arabic poems in the original from the 7th century of the work of Qays b. al-Mulawwah (d. ...

Based on original documents never before discussed, this account of the disastrous marriage of Effie Gray and John Ruskin overturns the myths that ...