Portraits

A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the color pink in eighteenth-century France Francois Boucher's 1750 half-length portrait of Madame de Pompadour-influential court figure and mistress to King...

Slave Portraiture in the Atlantic World is the first book to focus on the individualized portrayal of enslaved people from the time of Europe's full engagement with plantation slavery in the late sixteenth century to its final official abolition in...

The artistic gaze into the mirror - Egon Schiele personally and in close-up. Many artists share the desire for involvement with the self and their own appearance. In the oeuvre of Egon Schiele, self-portraits occupy a central role. Over a period of...

In London in 1770 Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) remarked, 'What a work could be written on Shakespeare, Hogarth and Garrick! There is something similar in the genius of all three.' Two-and-a-half centuries on, Robin Simon's highly original and...

This survey of Lawrence's first twenty-five years tells the story of an exceptional artist growing up at the end of the century as Britain created its own unique artistic voice. Like his Renaissance predecessors Raphael, Michelangelo and Durer, the...

Sofonisba Anguissola (c.1532–1625), an Italian Renaissance painter born in Cremona to a noble family, was one of the first women artists of Europe to establish an international reputation during her lifetime. This book explores the evolution of Sofonisba...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959856638Author Zach LynchFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint SalzgeberPublisher SalzgeberWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm) 323mm * 246mm * 20mm

Accompanying a major exhibition at Philip Mould & Company, Fruit of Friendship: Portraits by Mary Beale presents the work of the remarkable sevenenteenth-century woman artist. Mary Beale (1633-1699) was Britain's first woman artist to run a successful...

This latest volume in The Met’s acclaimed How to Read series explores the meaning of portraiture across time and cultures—from funerary masks to realism to abstraction Portraiture goes far beyond capturing a likeness. Portraits speak to such fundamental...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734053074Author Karen CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Karen CampbellPublisher Karen Campbell

This richly illustrated publication explores the lasting influence of Gainsborough's Blue Boy on British art and culture Marking the return of Gainsborough's Blue Boy to the UK exactly 100 years since it left for the United States, this richly...

Using a series of 300 drawings and diagrams, the author analyzes the basic structure, anatomy and proportions of the human head. He delineates the musculature of every facial feature, explains wrinkle patterns and demonstrates how to draw the head from...

Brings together, for the first time, Lucian Freud's oil on copper paintings, including his lost portrait of Francis Bacon and two works that have never been reproduced before In the early 1950s, Lucian Freud produced several works in oil paint on copper,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524763503Author New York TimesFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Clarkson PotterPublisher Random House USA Inc

A new account of painting in early modern England centered on the art and legacy of Anthony van Dyck As a courtier, figure of fashion, and object of erotic fascination, Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641) transformed the professional identities available to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525521068Author Edward SorelFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781600619700Author Lee HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint North Light BooksPublisher F&W Publications Inc

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about...

Excerpts from art critic, historian, lecturer and broadcaster James Hall’s lively and comprehensive cultural history of self-portraiture, including such artists as Dürer, Gentileschi, Van Gogh and Kahlo. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching:...

"An inspiring makeshift ingenuity....These mirror images with their uncanny resemblances traverse space and time, spotlighting the black lives that have been silenced by the canon of western art, while also inviting us to interrogate the present." -Times...

Throughout the history of art most of the world's greatest artists have produced portraits at some point in their careers, whether commissioned by rulers or magnates; created to preserve a cherished friend or relation; or even to capture the artist's own...

Jean Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) was one of the most accomplished, idiosyncratic and witty artists of 18th-century Europe. Born in Geneva, he pursued a remarkable career, travelling across the continent and the Near East, portraying a riveting...

The Medici family ruled unofficially and later as dukes the city of Florence and Tuscany, from the end of 14th to the end of the 18th century. Under their patronage the Renaissance was born. The members of this powerful family were able to build their...

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; their expressions may reveal the drama of...

Understanding Caricature offers a lively guide to an old and respected art form. A great caricature is one that not only captures the subject's look and personality but amplifies them significantly. They are almost always funny and very often (but not...

A richly illustrated celebration of the paintings of President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama From the moment of their unveiling at the National Portrait Gallery in early 2018, the portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama have become two of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947243651Author Creative ColoringFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Creative ColoringPublisher Creative ColoringWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 279mm...

Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait necessarily implies painting and the assumption that Enlightenment thought is manifest chiefly in French art...

A tribute to the groundbreaking drag elders who helped pave the way for the queens of todayDrag has officially transcended the underground and exploded into the mainstream. Queens have more media representation than ever-in film, television, music,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916515000Author Jeanette WintersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Eiderdown BooksPublisher Eiderdown Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585423361Author Deborah DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 132mm *...

Building on the foundations set by our popular Art Fundamentals book, Beyond Fundamentals shows artists how to take their work a step beyond techniques and mechanics. A memorable, unique image requires more than just accurate anatomy and choosing the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781036933838Author Emma WoolleyFormat HardbackImprint Emma WoolleyPublisher Emma Woolley

The complete guide to painting the portrait in oils.From Steve Forster, award-winning portrait artist and co-director of the Long Island Academy of Fine Art, Painting Luminous Portraits for Artists presents essential lessons on how to paint a radiant...

The Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. The prestigious competition showcases the very best in contemporary...

Illustrated with 167 full colour images, this landmark book charts Alexander Moffat's career from student days at Edinburgh College of Art in the 1960s to the recent Scotland's Voices. Iconic portraits of major figures in literature and the other arts...

As we approach the bicentennial, in 2017, of the birth of Henry David Thoreau, there is considerable debate and confusion as to what he may, or may not have, contributed to American life and culture. Almost every American has heard of Thoreau, but only a...

The art of Dusti Bonge was influenced by her experiences in three distinctive American cities: Biloxi, Mississippi; New Orleans, Louisiana; and New York, New York. In developing her artistic practice in these vibrant urban settings, she portrayed a...

This book explores a range of experimental self-portraits made in France between 1840 and 1870, including remarkable images by Hippolyte Bayard, Nadar, Duchenne de Boulogne, and Countess de Castiglione. Adapting photography for different social purposes,...