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One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are shared among all media ¿ metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, tilework and textiles. In textiles the main themes are based on angular and geometric shapes ¿ vertical and horizontal striped bands, hexagons and octagons, which can be linked and infinitely extended, stylized and rhythmic scrolls of foliage a...

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This book presents magnificent artifacts collected by an aristocratic family of fabulous wealth. It shows goldsmiths' work and jewelry of extraordinary quality, dating from the fifteenth through the seventeenth centuries. These include some of the finest creations of their time by artists such as Hans Petzolt of Nuremberg and Augsburg's Drentwett family, as well as other renowned German and Hungarian goldsmiths of the Mannerist and Baroque era...

Botticelli: Heroines and Heroes explores the work of the legendary Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, focusing on a genre called spalliera that Botticelli employed with staggering originality. The catalgoue and exhibition, held at the Gardner Museum, Boston, include significant loans from European and American public collections. Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (14 February ¿ 19 May 2019), this ca...

The Courtauld Collection: A Vision for Impressionism accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris exploring Samuel Courtauld¿s role as one of the great collectors of the twentieth century. The catalogue and exhibition showcase Courtauld¿s extraordinary collection, which will be on display in Paris for the first time in over sixty years. One of the finest collections of Impressionism anywhere in the world was assemb...

Eliot Hodgkin (1905-1987) is best known as a painter of still life subjects beautifully executed in tempera. His depictions of everyday objects ¿ such as lemons, radishes, dead leaves and feathers ¿ have always been much prized by collectors. Less well known are his haunting views of bomb-sites in London after World War II, with rank weeds and wildflowers pushing up through mounds of rubble. This revealing, fully illustrated catalogue accompan...

Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696�70). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during World War II. The catalogue accompanies an exhibition at The Frick Collection. In 1730�, Tiepolo undertook his firs...

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This publication is the latest in the Close Up series of books accompanying Gardner Museum exhibitions which showcase aspects of the museum's outstanding permanent collection.

Based at Bardon Hall, Leeds, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art was established in 1993 and opened their London gallery in St James¿s in 2013. Dino and Raffaello are recognised internationally for specialising in important European sculpture from the early Renaissance to the Neo-Classical periods, with a particular knowledge of European Renaissance bronzes. They have interests in several other fields including Old Master paintings, antiquities, fine fu...

Photography of ocean wildlife and underwater nature accompanied by reflections on sea conservation work from around the world.

This innovative and compelling study reconsiders Whistler¿s work from the context of his military service and his relationship with ¿nature at the margins¿. Whistler came from a family of soldiers and engineers, his father, Major George Washington Whistler, was originally a US military engineer. Drawing and mapmaking were important components of the military training that Whistler acquired as an offi cer cadet at West Point Academy in 1851-4 a...

This catalogue presents a selection of important European terracotta sculptures from the neolithic to the neoclassical periods. The accompaning exhibition traces the history of ¿fired clay¿ starting with the Vinca civilisation of South-Eastern Europe in the fifth millennium BC, which produced the fascinating Idol of a Mother and Child in the show and from there, via the ancient classical period and the Renaissance, to the high baroque, ending ...

Patron Saints: Collecting Stanley Spencer is a revealing new exhibition at the renowned Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham ¿ Spencer¿s spiritual home and major source of inspiration. The exhibition draws together a spectacular collection of loans, including The Centurion¿s Servant (Tate), Love on the Moor (Fitzwilliam), John Donne Arriving in Heaven, (Fitzwilliam) and one work not seen in the public domain in over 50 years. The exhibition and ...

This publication brings together 27 objects that were made in Europe during the Middle Ages, between the 11th and the early 16thcenturies. They represent some of the finest examples of sculpture, metalwork, painting, drawing, and stained glass still in private hands, and together offer a startling insight into the period¿s rich artistic achievements.

An in-depth examination of one of the most important ancient works in America, the exquisite Farnese Sarcophagus.

The artist should not only paint what he sees before him, claimed Caspar David Friedrich, but also what he sees in himself. He should have a dialogue with Nature. Friedrich's words encapsulate two central elements of the Romantic conception of landscape -- close observation of the natural world and the importance of the imagination.Exploring aspects of Romanticn landscape drawing in Britain and Germany from its origins in the 1760s to its fina...

Accompanying an exhibition to be held at The Courtauld Gallery, it explores the role the Queen Mother Regent Catherine De' Medici played in a key series of drawings.