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The Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings, with French Paintings Before 1600
The National Gallery, London possesses an important collection of paintings by 16th-century Netherlandish artists, including Joachim Beuckelaer, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Jean Gossart, and Quinten Massys. They are...
National Gallery Technical Bulletin
Volume 33
The acclaimed National Gallery Technical Bulletin features contributions by curators, scientists, and conservators, on materials and techniques of painting, and the scientific examination of paintings. Volume 33 presents...
Imperial Gothic
Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870
The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with 18th- and 19th-century British cultural politics. By the middle of the 19th century, architects and theorists had transformed the movement into a...
Carscapes
The Motor Car, Architecture, and Landscape in England
When the motor car first came to England in the 1890s, it was a luxury item with little practical purpose—drivers couldn't travel very far or quickly without paved roads or traffic laws. Thus began a transformation that...
Designing Antiquity
Owen Jones, Ancient Egypt and the Crystal Palace
In the 19th century, designers became involved in the public presentation of the past, focusing specifically on the decoration of historical monuments. By exploring ornamental designs and the way they represented the cultural...
The Cloisters
Medieval Art and Architecture, Revised and Updated Edition
Home to an extraordinary collection of treasured masterworks, including the famed Unicorn Tapestries, The Cloisters is devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. This splendid new guide, published to celebrate The...
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art
The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas...
Religious Poverty, Visual Riches
Art in the Dominican Churches of Central Italy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
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Under the Banyan Tree
Relocating the Picturesque in British India
Under the Banyan Tree is the first comprehensive study of the evolution and flourishing of the picturesque during the British Raj. Romita Ray argues that this concept allowed British artists and writers traveling in...
Aethelstan
The First King of England
"Æthelstan was perhaps the most important king of tenth-century England, but we know very little about him, and he has no modern biography. Sarah Foot triumphantly fills this gap, and adds to the richness of our...