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This book tells the fascinating story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. It accompanies the first ever major loan exhibition devoted to Clara and celebrity pachyderms in the UK and will offer a significant contribution to scholarship on the subject. The latest in the Barber's acclaimed object-in- focus series, Miss Clara focuses on a small bronze sculpture of a rhinoceros, and also considers other c...

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The first comprehensive study of an important Italian Renaissance bronze-caster by a leading authority.

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This richly illustrated and scholarly catalogue accompanies an exhibition at Carlton Hobbs in New York, January 2017. Among the 25 beautiful works, dating from the early Renaissance to the Neoclassical period, are important statuettes by masters such as Gianfrancesco Susini, Willem Danielsz van Tetrode, Masimiliano Soldani-Benzi, Pietro Tacca and Joseph Nollekens.

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Joseph de Levis applied his distinctive signature (between 1577 and 1605) to a whole range of fantastic, Mannerist, bronze artefacts, some 45 in all. They range from large church-bells - some still in situ - and miniature table-bells, to mortars, inkstands, perfume-burners, door-knockers, firedogs, statuettes, and even a portrait-bust. Joseph's sons and nephews continued the family business into the seventeenth century, signing a similar range...

Scottish artist Charles Avery embarked on a lifelong project titled The Islanders, a detailed description of a topography, cosmology and inhabitants of fictional island, realised in drawing, objects and texts.

There has never been an art book devoted to these beautiful and intelligent animals, although they have figured in Western iconography for more than two thousand years as religious and political symbols and as paradigms of grace. Charles Avery rectifies the oversight with an endearing book that combines charm, intellectual scholarship, and serious art history.

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bTitle:/b Soldiers of the Queen, or, Jack Fenleigh's luck. A story of the dash to Khartoum.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collec...

Photographs of children and text in both English and Spanish explore a wide range of human emotions.

This bumper collection of sewing projects made using fat quarters offers the perfect solution to sewers with a bundle of fabrics waiting to be stitched into something lovely. Eleven talented designers have contributed to make this a high-value package that will show you how to use just one fat quarter or up to ten to sew something stunning today.

The exceptional bronzes presented here have been carefully selected, over the course of many years, to represent the Tomasso Bothers¿ passion for this most fascinating material, and they range from the dawn of Italian humanism in the early 15th century to the high point of the Italian late Baroque. Highlights include a remarkable and rare relief depicting the Triumph of Caesar over King Juba by Italian artist Filarete (c. 1433), an exceptional...

This volume contains papers written in the years following 1986 which discuss both specific examples of sculpture, such as Donatello's Madonna, or broader surveys of a particular sculptor or style. Both stone and bronze sculptures are studied, including garden sculpture and other metal artefacts, for example seals and locks.

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