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After goldsmiths work, tapestries and embroideries were among the costliest art forms of the Middle Ages, due to their precious materials and the countless hours required to produce them. Whether hung on the wall or worn about the person, textiles provided a potent display of their owners¿ wealth and status. Their vivid decoration also provided the perfect backdrop for courtly pageants, royal ceremonies, and liturgical festivals. Even the quic...

Detailed biographies describe the lives of twelve collectors of tribal art in Britain, active between 1770 and 1990. These men were rarely field collectors and only occasional travellers, but they were vigorous hunters, for whom the pursuit, handling and possession of such objects was what mattered. The climax of the period of collecting from around 1880 to 1960 coincided with the maximum extent of Empire, when legions of explorers, missionari...

Marking 150 years since the artist's birth, this catalogue accompanies the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Edouard Vuillard's portrayal of his mother, Madame Marie-Justine-Alexandrine Michaud Vuillard.

William Jackson, one of Gainsborough¿s closest friends and biographers, noted that if he had ¿to rest his [Gainsborough] reputation on one point, it should be on his Drawings¿. Gainsborough was indeed a draftsman of rare talent and creativity, and his experiments in drawing inspired an entire generation of British artists, from John Constable (1776¿1837) to J. M. W. Turner (1775¿1851). When not occupied with his lucrative portrait business, Ga...

This trans-historical exhibition of drawings is devoted to the subject of the artist at work. Drawn principally from a very fine specialist private collection, this display will focus on the depictions of artists¿ studios, their own portraits, models and assistants in symbolic, as well as from life, representations of the m¿er of drawing, painting and sculpture. Art historians have interpreted these themes variously as the means of elevating t...

Explores the celebrated talents of Fra Angelico - storyteller and his artistic contributions that shaped a new ideal of painting.

In 1621, Peter Paul Rubens (1577¿1640) wrote a letter to William Trumbull, the English diplomat and political agent to King James I, in which he described a large painting of a lion hunt that he had just completed: ¿As you rightly observe, such things have more grace and power in a large picture than in a small one ¿ because the large size of a picture gives one much more courage to express one¿s ideas clearly and realistically¿. Rubens here c...

Celebrating the enduring British taste for collecting Dutch paintings from thelong seventeenth century, this exhibition catalogue will explore why and how this particular type of art was desired, commissioned and displayed, through the consideration of Golden Age masterpieces from a number of National Trust houses.

Published to accompany the exhibition: Talking time: Chardin's Boy building a House of Cards and other paintings, 28 March--15 July 2012 at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire"--T.p. verso.

Aims to shed light on the creative power of drawing by staging a series of dialogues between historic works in the Courtauld collection, together with a selection of works by living artists.

The Dresden Kupferstich-Kabinett (Museum of Prints, Drawings and Photographs of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden), which has one of the greatest collections of prints and drawings in Europe, has particularly important and unique holdings of the work of the outstanding German graphic artist K縠 Kollwitz (1867�45). Kollwitz formed a long association with Max Lehrs (1855�38), a leading art historian and then the director of the Dresden Kupfe...

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This radical re-examination of one of the crucial periods of modern British and Irish art demolishes the idea that control of the art world passed after the War from rich individuals to faceless state institutions. This highly original book puts history back into the history of art. It approaches the British and Irish art worlds from the historical viewpoint, avoiding theories unsupported by facts. Individual artists discussed include Francis ...

One of the many aspects of London that never failed to attract comment from foreign visitors in the late 18th and early 19th century was the Clubland that sprouted along Pall Mall and St James s. Paris and Vienna had nothing like it. From its foundation in 1764, Brooks s was accepted as one of the most important manifestations of this new form of London living. From its inception, its membership drew on some of England s wealthiest and most in...

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Twenty-five years after Captain Cook, the London Missionary Society sent its first representatives to the South Seas. Their goal was to eradicate heathenism and idolatry, but unwittingly, they became agents for the preservation of Polynesian culture through their diligent recording of language and religious practices. They even preserved a number of religious artifacts, which they sent back to England for exhibition in the Mission Museum in Lo...

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Published on a USB drive, the Complete Digital Catalogue presents all the arms and armor held by the Wallace Collection in more than 7000 new photographs, ranging from whole pieces to close details and presenting them from many angles. This magnificent and visually stunning resource is both rapidly searchable and is fully comprehensive, containing also the texts of Sir James Manns 1962 catalogue of the European arms and armorwhich remains a fu...

?This publication celebrates for the first time the important creative collaboration between the artist Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (18641901) and his muse, the dancer Jane Avril (18681943). Avril was one of the stars of Moulin Rouge in the 1890s, and was nicknamed La Mlinite after a form of explosive. She was known for her alluring style and exotic persona, and her fame was assured by a series of dazzlingly inventive posters designed by Lautrec.

This exquisite catalog of sixty-five Italian drawings ranging in date from 1525 to 1835 celebrates the second part of a major acquisition made by the National Gallery of Art in late 2007, the purchase of one of the finest private European holdings of old master drawings, the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection. The drawings presented here and in the accompanying exhibition span the last flowering of the Renaissance to the rise of neoclassicism.