Atheist Kevin Jackson’s diary of his pilgrimage with his friend the Rev. Richard Coles, ‘Britain’s best-loved vicar’, to the historic sites of the Holy Land.
A passionate plea to defend Venice’s fate from mass tourism, commodification and cultural homogenization, by art historian, archaeologist and ‘conscience of Italy’ Salvatore Settis.
A key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael's own art but also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues.
Ninth edition of J. G. Links’ classic guidebook to Venice, with four walks and an introduction by Jan Morris. 'The greatest guidebook ever written' (The Times)
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg’s rich, extensive commentaries on Hogarth’s ‘Marriage à la Mode’ paintings, which satirised eighteenth-century marriages of convenience, brilliantly translated and with much additional material.
A facsimile of Whistler’s published 1885 lecture, the culmination of years of work and self-promotion after Ruskin’s bruising criticism, expressing his artistic beliefs with satire and beauty.
This publication presents three very different biographies of Rembrandt by contemporaries. An introduction by Charles Ford situates these biographies in the context of 17th-century appreciation of art, and the trajectory of Rembrandt's career.
A sequel to the best-selling An Hour from Paris, this guide takes the reader to ten more secret destinations easily accessible from central Paris by public transport.
In 1903 Rilke published this essay, a sustained and profound meditation on the unique power of Rodin's sculpture that has never been equalled. Written around a chronology of Rodin's work,... Læs mere
Samuel Palmer was one of the most original artists Britain has produced. This book reprints the first major writings on Palmer.
In this little book for children, first made in 1793, William Blake charted the course of human life and experience in eighteen enigmatic emblems.
William Blake's wood engravings, published in a stand-alone book for the first time, with the original text of Ambrose Philips' version of the first Eclogue of Virgil.