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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...

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This volume, with full entries on Oskar Reinhart's entire collection of 207 works by 45 leading scholars in their field, and superb plates carefully checked against the originals, sets out to give the important works in Reinhart's collection (including a number of Old Masters and many French ninteenth century paintings) the attention they deserve.

Accompanying an exhibition at the Wallace Collection, this catalog will seek to examine relationships between these two works and their creation, focusing on establishing common threads drawn from contemporary French social and cultural history. When seen together, the two paintings acquire a new resonance, showing the imaginative and Parisian response of two very different painters to a new interest in scenes from everyday life. The paintings...

Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson Canadian Collection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art. There are rare and incomparable examples of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art. Krieghoff¿s inspired accounts of life in the Canadas, prior to Confederation, bring the light and atmosphere of history fully into the present. A staggering power to capture the fleeting and the fugitive in paint still distinguishes th...

Manet's well-known painting in the National Gallery London of a caf-concert a kind of cabaret performance and music-making that was the latest fashion in Paris of the 1870s has a peculiar history. The painter initially planned an ambitious canvas with which he grew dissatisfied, then cut it in two, one half being the painting in the National Gallery and the other half now in Winterthur in Switzerland. He repainted both fragments to make each w...

To celebrate the recent opening of the Thomson Collection galleries at the transformed Art Gallery of Ontario, Torontoredesigned by Canadian architect Frank Gehryfive new books recording Ken Thomsons historic donation of 2, 000 superb works of art have been published by Skylet in association with the AGO. All five jacketed paperbacks are available in a box set.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, June 15-Dec. 1, 2007.

There can be few examples of intensive fashioning and self-fashioning by a Renaissance figure more remarkable than Prince Henry (1594-1612). Two decades after the appearance of Roy Strong's revelatory Henry Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance this collection of essays reexamines the extraordinary artistic and cultural response to Prince Henry and presents many new findings in the context of recent scholarship.

This inspiring collection of over 50 of his paintings and stone carvings portrays the suffering, joy and innocence of St Bernadette, a poor shepherdess who had miraculous visitations from the Virgin Mary at Lourdes in 1858. These visionary paintings present a radical new image of St Bernadette and Mary in the mystery of their poignantly close relationship amid the vibrant forces of nature, all infused by the Divine Spirit. Philip Vann explores...

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. Executed in c. 1533, The Dream exemplifies Michelangelo¿s unrivalled skill as draftsman. Accompanying an exhibition at the Courtauld in 2010, this catalogue examines this celebrated work in the context of a group of closely related drawings by Michelangelo, as we...

Over the course of the last forty years art historian Jonathan Brown has done more than anyone to reform our approach to the art of the Hispanic world between the age of El Greco and Velzquez and that of Goya. This volume of contributions to the symposium in his honor in 2008 testifying to the character and range of his influenceincludes 19 essays by distinguished scholars.

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?This beautiful book celebrates the career of Jonathan Horne FSA MBE, an international authority on English pottery and for 40 years a London dealer at the top of his field. Bringing together many of the worlds leading scholars, curators and archaeologists, this book offers fresh insight and cutting-edge research in the field of English pottery and its historical context. The breadth and variety of papers, together with an extensive up-to-date...

Vartan of Nazareth is the little-known story of a medical hero who founded a hospital in Nazareth 150 years ago. This book traces the remarkable story of Pacarooni Kaloost Vartan, the son of a poor Armenian tailor in Constantinople (modern day Istanbul). Born in 1835 at a time of great change in the Ottoman Empire, the young Vartan attended the first American missionary school in the imperial city. He left school to join the British Army as an...

Hans Memling was one of the most important, prolific and versatile painters active in 15th-century Bruges, and one of the leading artists of the Early Netherlandish School. Commissioned by Abbot Jan Crabbe, one of Memling¿s most signifcant and erudite patrons, the triptych of the Crucifi xion ¿ in particular its wings, with their complex and meticulously conceived background landscapes and the convincing realism of the portraits ¿ ostentatious...

This book is about a family tree: the line of descent that can be traced from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth. It is not the usual kind of genealogy, of those connected by blood, more an 'apostolic succession', following the way in which art in Europe was taught, from one generation to the next, from 1480 to 1880. The book reveals how the nature and methods of artistic instruction changed...

Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement is the first serious study of Rodin¿s late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist¿s fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue give an account of Rodin¿s passion for new forms of dance ¿ from south-asian dances to the music hall and the avant garde ¿ which began appearing on the French stage around 1900. Rodin made ...

There was a time when museums might have been regarded as rather forbidding and austere centres of learning, but today they are more likely to position themselves firmly within the tourism and leisure industry with all manner of food, fun and familyentertainment on offer. A high-profile museum brand often relies on a fast-changing menu of temporary exhibitions with an attractive programme of activities, cleverly marketed to ever-growing number...

The city of Venice holds a special place in the global imagination. This book explores the creation of one of its largest surviving depictions, which has remained almost unknown to the wider public since its creation exactly four centuries ago.