Provides a close-up look at forty-five important artworks from the world's greatest artists, furnishing biographical notes on each artist, a detailed analysis of each work, and a study of artistic …
A chronological compendium of fifty great artists and their most important works spans six centuries of world art and encompasses biographical profiles and information on style, movements, influenc…
an introduction to the history and tools of illumination through more than 25 practical projects. Guidance on techniques such as decoration, gilding..,
This first ever survey of the subject demonstrates that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the twentieth century--from Eakins, B…
Although American Protestants often claims that they are opposed to the use of devotional images in their religious life, they in fact draw on a vast body of religious icons to disseminate confessi…
The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural a…
Chrisitanity is another country, says the author, and we need to familiarize ourselves with it in order to understand the universal meaning of its art. In this beautifully written book, the auhtor …
The Indian paintings catalogues in this book were executed over a period of seven centureis, from about AD 1000 until 1700. At the beginning of the period the sub continent was divided into numerou…