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.
This title presents Jan Morris on her favourite artist and her favourite city. An enchanting text, richly illustrated.
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.
First book to explore the visionary late paintings of the Irish-based abstract painter John Kingerlee.
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.
The conversations of Burne-Jones, nineteenth-century painter of melancholy, abstract angels, with his assistant, revealing a loveable, witty man, articulate about his world, craft and contemporaries.
A dazzling collection examining artist, critic and radical John Ruskin’s life and work in his nineteenth-century world and milieu, and extensively proving his continued relevance.
William Blake’s fine watercolours illustrating the most perfect of John Milton’s shorter poems, L’Allegro and Il Penseroso, a revelation in English literature and art.
Jan Marsh examines Elizabeth Siddal’s story to coincide with The Rossetti’s exhibition at Tate Britain.