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This book accompanies an exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, that will be the first to offer a comprehensive account of the parallel artistic paths charted by Mondrian and Nicholson during this remarkable decade. It will bring together an extraordinary group of paintings and reliefs to show how each artist was driven by a profound belief in the potential of abstract art to attain the highest aesthetic and spiritual power. This publica...

Silver, porcelain and ruby glass seem unlikely bedfellows, yet the objects in the Zilkha Collection are all united by the medium of silver or luxury metalwork. The objects were also made, for the most part, over about a century and a half. All of them tell a fascinating story of the particular circumstances that produced them: a maker, a workshop, a patron. They also tell the wider story of the society that made them necessary or desirable, th...

The greatest treasure of the City of London has been, until now, the least known. The unique Crystal Sceptre of c.1420 - seen only at the inauguration of the Lord Mayor and at coronations, and never photographed before - is here presented with as much as is known of its history, its materials and their origins and its first recorded outing, to the coronation of Catherine of Valois, the wife of King Henry V, in 1421 at Westminster Abbey. Timed ...

The Shahnama (Book of Kings), which chronicles the history of Iran from the Creation to the Islamic conquest, was written by the poet Firdawsi at the turn of the eleventh century. Its central importance to Iranian culture is reflected in the thousands of copies made since then, many superbly illustrated and produced for royal and other powerful patrons. One of these copies, presented to Queen Victoria in 1839, is one of the finest treasures am...

In his joint capacities of Premier peintre du roi, director of the Gobelins manufactory and rector of the Acad¿e royale de peinture et de sculpture, Le Brun exercised a previously unprecedented influence on the production of the visual arts ¿ so much so that some scholars have repeatedly described him as ¿dictator¿ of the arts in France. The Sovereign Artist explores how Le Brun operated in his diverse fields of activities, linking and juxtapo...

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 celebration of the creative genius of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as represented in his distinctive draughtsmanship. Ruskin's drawings and watercolours will also be read as indicators of periods of euphoria and intellectual engagement, as well as moods of bleak despair and his eventual descent into insanity.

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Prolific and successful in his own lifetime, and Picture drawer to Charles I, Cornelius Johnson (1593¿1661) is now the forgotten man of seventeenth-century British art. This is the first book ever to address his life and work. Johnson's surviving works, all portraits, are found in most public collections in Britain and in many private collections seen on the walls of British country houses, in the possession of descendants of the original sitt...

The self-portrait of Baccio Bandinelli in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, shows the scupltor pointing not to a work of marble or bronze, but to a drawing. Bandinelli was particularly proud of his skills as a draughtsman, and he was prolific in his production of works on paper. This set him apart from contemporaries in his profession, many Renaissance sculptors left us no drawings at all. Accompanying an exhibition at the Gardner M...

Accompanying a landmark exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, this book examines the remarkable drawings made by Du¿rer as a young man from 1490 to 1495, especially those made during his journeyman years, or Wanderjahre ¿ considered the final part of a craftsman¿s training ¿ and a second shorter trip which immediately followed and seems to have brought the artist to Italy. These trips form the framework for the book, which focuses on the young ...

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A foreword by the Rt Revd Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, and twelve essays by distinguished authorities will illustrate aspects of evolving liturgy and Church history, alongside a beautiful display of the 250 gold and silver objects spanning the history of the church which were exhibited at the Goldsmith's Hall, London.

?This is a comprehensive introduction to the young Epstein, a study of his personality, his art, his culture, his milieu, his domestic menages, his Jewishness, his unJewishness, his vision, his lovers and again his art, for Epstein lived, starved and suffered all for his art. Immigrants to New York, his parents took the name Epstein without appreciating that it would make him forever a foreigner in his chosen homeland, London, where his startl...

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.