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The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 5
Book XII: Concerning the Little Sea Trees, and Stony Sea Growths, Which Resemble Plants; Auctuarium, or Augmentation of The Ambonese Herbal
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the...
The Ambonese Herbal, Volume 6
Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the...
The Ambonese Herbal, Volumes 1-6
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the...
Duccio to Leonardo
Renaissance Painting 1250-1500
This generously illustrated book presents highlights from the National Gallery’s display of Italian Renaissance painting, one of the richest collections of its kind in the world. Duccio to Leonardo focuses on...
A Closer Look: Faces
Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery’s collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. It is often the faces shown that communicate most directly in a picture;...
A Closer Look: Saints
Drawing on the National Gallery’s comprehensive collection of religious images, A Closer Look: Saints explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. Erika Langmuir underlines...
The National Gallery
An Illustrated History
The National Gallery started life in 1824 when the British government purchased the collection of 38 pictures belonging to the estate of wealthy banker John Julius Angerstein. As there was no suitable space available...
Fashion Victims
Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette
A thoughtful, lavishly illustrated, and highly readable account of the fabulous French fashion world in the pre-Revolutionary period This engrossing book chronicles one of the most exciting, controversial,...
A Laboratory for Art
Harvard's Fogg Museum and the Emergence of Conservation in America, 1900-1950
Harvard’s Fogg Museum was the first American museum with a scientifically based conservation and research department. During a period of immense growth of collections in the United States, director Edward W. Forbes and...
The Madonna of 115th Street
Faith and Community in Italian Harlem, 1880-1950
Third Edition
“An impressive fusion of the inner histories of immigrant social and religious life.” —John W. Briggs, American Historical Review “An in-depth historical study of the Italian-American community and...