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European Art of the Seventeenth Century by Rosa Giorgi
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.18The seventeenth century was an era of absolute monarchs, the Habsburgs of Spain and Louis XIV of France, whose patronage of the arts helped furnish their opulent palaces. But it was also the... -
In Focus: Edward Weston - Photographs from the J.Paul Getty Museum by Brett Abbott
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.48A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (1886 - 1958) began his long and colourful career in Southern California. Among the more than fifty prints gleaned from the Getty... -
American Painters on Technique - 1860-1945 by Lance Mayer 9781606061350
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £39.17This is an insightful survey on the materials and techniques of American artistis, from 1860 to 1945. This second volume in the American Painter's on Technique series is the first overview of an... -
A Royal Menagerie - Meissen Porcelain Animals . Wittwer 9780892366446
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.74A catalogue of the almost life-size porcelain animals created for the elector of Saxony and king of Poland, Augustus the Strong, in 1735. This was perhaps the most significant commission for... -
Pieter de Hooch - A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy . Franits 9780892368440
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.99This volume examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and works, explores his stylistic development, and considers as well, his often complex relationship with other artists. "Pieter de... -
Murano by Mark Doty 9780892365982
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46Murano, a recent work by the distinguished American poet Mark Doty, is a contemplative meditation on human mortality and the mystery of artistic creation. Addressed to his late friend, the poet Lynda... -
Looking at Greek and Roman Sculpture in Stone - A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques by Janet Burnett Grossman 9780892367085
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.00Tool marks and joins, Cycladic and Daedalic styles, and kouroi and kanephoroi are among the many terms pertaining to the study of classical stone sculpture that are succinctly described in this... -
European Art of the Fourteenth Century by Sandra Baragli 9780892368594
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.99In the fourteenth century, Europe was a place ravaged by the effects of war and famine and then devastated by the Black Death. These multiple crises lead to a widespread mystical religiosity, which... -
Death and Resurrection in Art by Enrico de Pascale 9780892369478
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.06This title presents a gloriously illustrated exploration of 3,000 years of the iconography of death and resurrection in world art. As one of the unavoidable realities of human existence, death is... -
Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari 9781606066218
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066218Author Giorgio VasariFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher... -
In Focus: Carleton Watkins - Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Peter E. Palmquist 9780892363995
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.52This volume is devoted to the smaller and more unusually-shaped works of Carleton E. Watkins, many of which have not been published before. The book also contains an overview of his life, and an... -
Seeing the Getty Center - Buildings and Gardens by . Publications 9780892365555
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.72Here, two of the Getty's most popular books are brought together in one handsome boxed set. In Seeing the Getty, numerous color photographs show the Getty Center in all its magnificence-from the tram... -
Inside Pompeii by Luigi Spina 9781606068908
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £85.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606068908Author Luigi SpinaFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J... -
Looking at Paintings - A Guide to Technical Terms, Revised Edition by Tiarna Doherty
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.47Fully revised and updated, here is a concise and authoritative guide to the technical terms most commonly used in painting. What is tempera? What is foreshortening? What is fresco? These are just... -
Marguerite Makes a Book by Bruce Robertson
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.14It is Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a... -
Planning and Engineering Guidelines for the Seismic Retrofitting of Historic Adobe Structures by E.Leroy Tolles 9780892365883
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £34.80This is a companion volume to "Seismic Stabilization of Historic Adode Structures: Final Report of the Getty Seismic Adode Project", and it offers guidance for planners, architects and engineers in... -
Lives of Caravaggio by Giulio Mancini 9781606066225
RRP: £10.95Booksplease Price: £7.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066225Author Giulio ManciniFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher... -
Herb Ritts - L.A Style by Paul Martineau 9781606061008
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.08This is a stunning collection of photographs - many never before published - celebrating the remarkable talent of Herb Ritts. "Herb Ritts" traces the life and career of the iconic photographer... -
A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII by Curator of Manuscripts Thomas Kren 9780892368297
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892368297Author Curator of Manuscripts Thomas KrenFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint J. Paul... -
Latin Inscriptions: Ancient Scripts by Dirk Booms 9781606064665
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606064665Author Dirk BoomsFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J... -
Lives of Gainsborough by Philip Thicknesse 9781606066645
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066645Author Philip ThicknesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint J. Paul Getty... -
Picture Worlds by Megan E O'Neil 9781606069059
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.28Satyrs and sphinxes, violent legumes, and a dancing maize deity-what do these very different subjects have in common? Interestingly, they figure in the stories painted on the pottery produced by the... -
Roman Art . Zanker 9781606061015
RRP: £26.00Booksplease Price: £23.73Presented in very clear and accessible language, "Roman Art" offers new and fascinating insights into the evolution of the forms and meanings of Roman art. Traditional studies of Roman art have... -
Artists' Techniques & Materials by Antonella Fuga
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.56An artist's materials - from the broad brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting, the sparkling gold leaf of a Byzantine mosaic, to the fragile translucence of a porcelain vase - are not just the... -
Poussin and the Dance by Emily A Beeny 9781606066836
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066836Author Emily A BeenyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J... -
Anecdotes of William Hogarth by William Hogarth 9781606066447
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606066447Author William HogarthFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher... -
The Ancestors of Christ Windows at Canterbury Cathedral by Jeffrey Weaver 9781606061466
Booksplease Price: £24.78This is an illuminating look at some of the oldest stained glass - and most famous medieval paintings - in all of England. Eighty-six near life-size figures of the male ancestors of Christ once... -
Greeks of the Black Sea - Ancient Art From the Hermitage . Trofimova 9780892368839
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.42The ancient Greeks were one of the most feared and respected sea-faring peoples of their era - they travelled widely and founded colonies in many far-away locations. One such area was the north coast... -
Illuminated Manuscripts of Germany and Central Europe in the J.Paul Getty Museum by Thomas Kren 9780892369485
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.13This book presents a lavishly illustrated survey of the art of illumination from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. It features 71 full-colour reproductions. This sumptuous volume presents... -
Animals in Photographs by Arpad Kovacs 9781606064412
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.97This is a compelling look at one of photography's most beloved subjects. This volume is the ninth in a group of photography books drawn from the holdings of The J. Paul Getty Museum, each volume... -
Runes by Martin Findell 9781606064481
RRP: £18.95Booksplease Price: £18.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606064481Author Martin FindellFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher... -
Lives of Titian by Signor Giorgio Vasari 9781606065877
RRP: £12.95Booksplease Price: £8.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606065877Author Signor Giorgio VasariFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint J. Paul Getty... -
The Greek Body by Dr Ian Jenkins 9781606060025
Booksplease Price: £31.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606060025Author Dr Ian JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint J. Paul Getty MuseumPublisher J... -
The History of Alexander the Great by Scot McKendrick 9780892363711
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £112.67A lavishly produced monograph about a late 15th Century illuminated manuscript. The text is a translation into French, by Vasco da Lucena, of one of the primary sources for the life of Alexander. The... -
Music in Art by Alberto Ausoni 9780892369652
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £18.34This is a superbly illustrated exploration of the history of music in Western art, from ancient sculptures to modern art. "The Guide to Imagery" series introduces readers to the important visual... -
Gardens in Art by Lucia Impelluso 9780892368853
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.99An intriguing and richly illustrated analysis of the symbolic imagery found in gardens throughout history, this work features dedicated mailing to targeted art and gardening related media and... -
The Book of Marvels: A Medieval Guide to the Globe Larisa Grollemond 9781606069035
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.54From the classical encyclopedias of Pliny to famous tales such as The Travels of Marco Polo, historical travel writing has had a lasting impact, despite the fact that it was based on a curious... -
Photographer of Modern Life: Camille Silvy by Mark Haworth-Booth 9781606060254
Booksplease Price: £40.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606060254Author Mark Haworth-BoothFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint J. Paul Getty... -
Understanding Greek Vases - A Guide to Terms, Styles, and Techniques by . Clark 9780892365999
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.81What is a pyxis? Who was the Amasis Painter? How did Greek vases get their distinctive black and orange colours? This volume offers definitions and descriptions of these and many other Greek vase... -
Tunisian Mosaics - Treasures from Roman Africa . Abed 9780892368570
Booksplease Price: £33.72As the Roman Empire expanded its borders into North Africa, thousands of mosaic floor pavements were designed and created to adorn the town houses and rural estates of the upper classes. As these...