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Founded by Buddhist monks in the late fourth century, Mogao grew into an artistic and spiritual center whose renown extended from the Chinese capital to the far western kingdoms of the Silk Road. Among its treasures are 45,000 square meters of murals, more than 2,000 statues, and some 50,000 medieval silk paintings and illustrated manuscripts.

Focuses on all known aspects of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman cults and rituals. In this volume, fifty-five authors discuss various life stages, health, sustenance, craft production, economics, travel, public and private life, guilds, priesthoods, priestly colleges and other institutions, law, diplomacy, and war.

The first study devoted to classical art's vital creative impact on the work of the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens.

This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in internationalcollections.

A comprehensive overview of ancient ambers, the only such book in English, is now revised.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries first modern, public museums of art appeared throughout Europe, setting a standard for nature of such institutions that has made its influence felt to present day. This book includes chapters on fifteen of the earliest major examples, from Capitoline Museum in Rome, opened in 1734, to Alte Pinakothek in Munich.

Takes readers on a romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in Western art - ranging from chaste tenderness to overwhelming frenzies of the senses, and from Classical allusion to sexual fantasy.

When life (in a global pandemic) imitates art . . .

Offers a detailed overview of the greatest archaeological sites and discoveries from ancient Greece - with contributions from both those who have excavated the sites and scholars who have spent a lifetime studying the monuments.

Dutch sculptor Adriaen de Vries (1556-1626) spent much of his life working for the most discerning royal courts of the age. A master of composition and technique, De Vries was relatively unknown until the J Paul Getty Museum's exhibition in 1999. This volume that presents the results of the technical study of 25 bronzes from the exhibition.

Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest research project of the Union Academique Internationale. Nearly four hundred volumes have been published since the first fascicule appeared in 1922.

This stunning volume illuminates the current moment of artists' engagement with books, presenting artists' books as an essential medium in contemporary art.

Drawing from Getty Research Institute's Harald Szeemann Archive and Library, this heavily illustrated volume examines the groundbreaking career of the Swiss Curator Harald Szeemann (1933-2005), widely regarded as one of the most influential curators of the twentieth century.

An informative, lavishly illustrated survey of one hundred years of fashion photography, including more than three hundred photographs by the genre's most famous practitioners.

"In a study of sixty neglected panel paintings from Roman Egypt, the authors present evidence for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance"--Provided by publisher.

Bringing together leading conservation scholars and professionals from around the world, this volume offers a timely look at values-based approaches to heritage management.

A fascinating look at one of photography's most controversial and beloved icons

The history of art is inseparable from the history of colour. This book takes readers across the globe and over the centuries on a tour through the history of color in art. It aims to uncover the origins and science of colour. It is illustrated in full colour throughout with 166 major works of art.

With a contextual approach that encompasses the full range of media, from textiles to stucco, this study traces the concept of a unified interior. It argues that art history - even the emergence of the modern category of fine art - was worked out as much in the rooms of palaces as in the printed pages of Vasari and other early writers on art.

Controversial, misunderstood, and sometimes overlooked, Minor White (1908-1976) is one of the great photographers of the 20th-century, whose ideas exerted a powerful influence on a generation of photographers and still resonate today. This is an illustrated tribute to one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth-century.

Louis Lumiere is perhaps best known for his seminal role in the invention of cinema, but his most important contribution to the history of photography was the autochrome. This book treats the technology of the autochrome, including the technical challenges of plate fabrication, described in detail, and a thorough account of autochrome manufacture.

Eliot Porter was a pioneer in use of colour photography. His work also became a powerful visual argument for environmental conservation. Possessing a gift for close observation, Porter explored new ways of depicting nature, building blinds in trees so he could study his avian subjects at closer vantage.

Argues that art should address a broad audience and explains the painter's responsibility to his spectators. This book explains how - even if the archbishop did not succeed in reforming the arts - Paleotti's treatise constituted one last synthesis of art as a reading of creation and salvation history, and "sacred" art as a vehicle of devotion.

Provides an examination of the history and use of modern house paints. This title traces the history of the household paint industry in the USA and UK over the first half of the 20th century.

Photography was introduced to China in the 1840s through the West's engagement in the Opium Wars and the subsequent reforms of Chinese statesmen. This title offers an illustrated exploration of the history of photography in China.

A companion to the prize-winning exhibition catalogue "Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe". This volume contains thirteen selected papers presented at the two conferences held in conjunction with the exhibition.

"A practical guide to the conservation of museum and other cultural heritage collections in hot and humid climates"--Provided by publisher.

An anthology of important texts tracing the historical development of the conservation of works of art on paper.

Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and collector of string figures and other patterns, Harry Smith (1923-1991) was among the most original creative forces to emerge in post-war American art and culture. This title presents an examination of the life and works of Harry Smith.