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Timed to coincide with the first ever public exhibition of the Crystal Sceptre, this new book will present the Sceptre and over 80 of the finest, most historic pieces in the plate collection at Mansion House - the home and office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London.
First serious study of Rodin's late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements (from 1911), comprising essays from leading scholars in the field of sculpture.
Accompanying a display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only 3 known grisaille paintings, this book will examine the sources, function and reception of these 3 exquisite and unusual masterpieces.
Banks and his team returned from the Endeavour voyage with unprecedented collections of artefacts and specimens of stunning birds, fish and plants, and they produced remarkable drawings of the peoples and places they saw. 140 objects will tell the story of the Endeavour voyage.
This beautiful and extensively illustrated catalogue presents in-depth case studies of 24 rare and remarkable Late Medieval panel paintings. Often fragments of larger altarpieces can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.
Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) was one of 18th-century England's most significant cultural figures. At the age of 61, shortly before his retirement, Richardson began to create a remarkable series of self-portrait drawings. Not intended for public display, these were unguarded explorations of his own character.
"Catalogue of the art collection: paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints / John Ingamells": p. 103-177.
Until recently, the Dutch draughtsman Johan Thopas, who was born in 1626 both deaf and dumb, was only known to a small group of connoisseurs, dealers and collectors. However, his remarkable, subtle and technically refined portrait drawings on parchment deserve a wider audience.
A masterpiece of medieval Arab metalwork revealed, shedding light on courtly life in northern Iraq under the Mongol governorship.
The outstanding collection of European bronze scupltures formed by Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian bronzes of the High Baroque, includes masterpieces by some of the greatest sculptors of their age, among them Ferdinando Tacca, Giovanni Battista Foggini, Robert le Lorrain, and Corneille van Cleve.
This groundbreaking reconstruction of Goya's so-called 'Witches and Old Women' album will offer rich insights into the artist's concerns and preoccupations and will immeasurably deepen our understanding of the artist.
Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsborough's masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significance of the multiple versions of designs that the artist produced during the 1780s.
This groundbreaking architectural history examines what people actually wanted in their institutional and private patronage over the last two centuries as opposed to what architects and theorists thought they should want - as seen through the prism of Oxford's principal building contractor and craft practitioner, Symm & Company.
Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream ( Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of all Italian Renaissance drawings and is amongst The Courtauld Gallery's greatest treasures.
Ken Thomson was no mere trophy gatherer. A man of passionate commitment and of wide-ranging cultural curiosity, the late Lord Thomson of Fleet (19232006) began a half-century of collecting in 1953 and continued to the very end of his life. The most important private art collection in Canada, it has drawn the respect of museum curators worldwide.
Accompanies the loan exhibition of drawings from Waddesdon Manor, Rothschild house near Aylesbury, owned by the National Trust. This catalogue reflects the diversity of the Rothschild Collection and the overlapping preoccupations and unflagging curiosity of its creators. It sheds light on the many different techniques and uses of drawing.
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