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Accompanying a display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only 3 known grisaille paintings, this book will examine the sources, function and reception of these 3 exquisite and unusual masterpieces.
Banks and his team returned from the Endeavour voyage with unprecedented collections of artefacts and specimens of stunning birds, fish and plants, and they produced remarkable drawings of the peoples and places they saw. 140 objects will tell the story of the Endeavour voyage.
This beautiful and extensively illustrated catalogue presents in-depth case studies of 24 rare and remarkable Late Medieval panel paintings. Often fragments of larger altarpieces can be monumental and dramatic or small and intimate, but all on close examination prove to be rich in meaning.
Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) was one of 18th-century England's most significant cultural figures. At the age of 61, shortly before his retirement, Richardson began to create a remarkable series of self-portrait drawings. Not intended for public display, these were unguarded explorations of his own character.
"Catalogue of the art collection: paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints / John Ingamells": p. 103-177.
Until recently, the Dutch draughtsman Johan Thopas, who was born in 1626 both deaf and dumb, was only known to a small group of connoisseurs, dealers and collectors. However, his remarkable, subtle and technically refined portrait drawings on parchment deserve a wider audience.
A masterpiece of medieval Arab metalwork revealed, shedding light on courtly life in northern Iraq under the Mongol governorship.
This publication will be a valuable resource for art historians as well as the general public, with little scholarship previously published in English about Zorn.
The outstanding collection of European bronze scupltures formed by Peter Marino, which focuses especially on French and Italian bronzes of the High Baroque, includes masterpieces by some of the greatest sculptors of their age, among them Ferdinando Tacca, Giovanni Battista Foggini, Robert le Lorrain, and Corneille van Cleve.
Inspired by the recent identification of a third autograph version of Gainsborough's masterpiece The Cottage Door, this book examines the significance of the multiple versions of designs that the artist produced during the 1780s.
Michelangelo's masterpiece The Dream ( Il Sogno) has been described as one of the finest of all Italian Renaissance drawings and is amongst The Courtauld Gallery's greatest treasures.
Ken Thomson was no mere trophy gatherer. A man of passionate commitment and of wide-ranging cultural curiosity, the late Lord Thomson of Fleet (19232006) began a half-century of collecting in 1953 and continued to the very end of his life. The most important private art collection in Canada, it has drawn the respect of museum curators worldwide.
?This is a comprehensive introduction to the young Epstein, a study of his personality, his art, his culture, his milieu, his domestic menages, his Jewishness, his unJewishness, his vision, his lovers and again his art, for Epstein lived, starved and suffered all for his art. Immigrants to New York, his parents took the name Epstein without appreciating that it would make him forever a foreigner in his chosen homeland, London, where his startlingly original responses to public commissions worked the popular press into a lather.
Accompanies the loan exhibition of drawings from Waddesdon Manor, Rothschild house near Aylesbury, owned by the National Trust. This catalogue reflects the diversity of the Rothschild Collection and the overlapping preoccupations and unflagging curiosity of its creators. It sheds light on the many different techniques and uses of drawing.
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