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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy : A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
Michael Baxandall
Paperback - $32.95
Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines earl ...
Painters of Reality : The Legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy
Andrea Bayer
Hardcover - $73.95
- This book is the catalogue of an exhibition jointly organized by the Associazione Promozione Iniziative Culturali di Cremona and The Metropolitan Museum of Art and held in Cremona (February 14 to May 2, 2004) and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art ( ...
Max Beckmann and the Self
Sister Wendy Beckett
Paperback - $18.95
As original as he was prolific, German artist Max Beckmann produced nearly a thousand works in a career that spanned two world wars. This beautifully produced volume uses Beckmann's own words as an introduction to the artist's creative expression and ...
Canaletto in England : A Venetian Artist Abroad, 1746-1765
Charles Beddington
Hardcover - $99.95
The fame of Giovanni Antonio Canal, known as Canaletto, rests mainly on his vivid paintings of Venice, his native city. Only rarely was he tempted to travel, but the popularity of his works with British tourists and patrons led him to England in 1746 ...
Stanley Spencer
Keith Bell
Paperback - $73.95
Stanley Spencer (1891 -- 1959) is one of the outstanding painters of the twentieth century. Highly controversial and single-minded in the pursuit of his personal vision, he often suffered neglect and hostility, and he has tended to be seen as an ecce ...
The Germans and Their Art : A Troublesome Relationship
Hans Belting
Hardcover - $60.95
This fascinating book investigates what is specifically German about German art, focusing on the attitudes Germans have had toward their art from the Romantic period to the present and discussing the ways they have tried to find their identity as a n ...
Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief : Rembrandt's 'Night Watch' and Other Dutch Group Portraits
Jr. Berger
Paperback - $65.95
A study of the theory and practice of seventeenth-century Dutch group portraits, Manhood, Marriage, and Mischief offers a account of the genre's comic and ironic features, which it treats as comments on the social context of portrait sitters who are ...