This book explores Édouard Vuillard’s early career combining intimate subject matter with abstraction by simplifying pictorial elements and observing... Læs mere
Anthony Langdon’s guide to Rome’s baroque palaces, a companion to Anthony Blunt’s A Guide to Baroque Rome: The Churches. Features 140 prints, plus diagrams, new photographs, references and indexes.
The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century is John Ruskin’s rigorous and prophetic denunciation of capitalism’s assault on the environment, developed through his conflicted relationship with 19th-century science.
The first biographies of Caravaggio, by Mancini, Baglione and Bellori: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art. Richly illustrated.
A monograpgh dedicated to the leading German Reformation artist, Lucas Cranach, who was one of the most influential northern Renaissance printmakers. His Passion series has drama and pathos rivalling his contemporary Dürer.
A volume dedicated to Albrecht Dürer’s series of woodcuts illustrating the Passion of Christ. An astonishing sixteenth-century demonstration of virtuosic printmaking.
The classic guide to the enchanting destinations of the Ile-de-France, all within an hour’s journey from central Paris, with maps, photographs and all practical information.
An anthology of Sir John Everett Millais’s illustrations for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins and weekly periodicals – some of the finest black and white work of the Victorian era.
Charles Ricketts wrote this account of his close friendship with Oscar Wilde, partly as an imagined conversation with a fictitious French writer. Facsimile with afterword.
Rarely seen watercolours by the greatest English artists of the 19th century, beautifully reproduced.
The classic Guide to Baroque Rome was called ‘the greatest architectural guidebook ever written’. Over 300 entries discuss the churches’ history, design, construction and significant features, including paintings.
On long hikes, Caspar David Friedrich compiled many sketchbooks. The ‘Oslo Sketchbook of 1807’ records trees he would use in many paintings.