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A Closer Look: Frames by Nicholas Penny
Category: Craft Collecting Hobbies | Series: National Gallery London
Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Frames" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide offers an insight into the various forms of frame housing some of the finest paintings in the National Gallery Collection. Fram ...Show more
A Closer Look: Techniques of Painting by Jo Kirby
Category: Interior Design | Series: National Gallery London
Materials and working practices influence a painter just as much as contemporary intellectual and cultural developments. "Techniques of Painting" aims to help readers develop a painterly eye by learning to recognize different materials and methods of application and to appreciate how these features cont ...Show more
Facing the Modern: The Portrait in Vienna, 1900 by Gemma Blackshaw
Category: Art and Design | Series: National Gallery London
During the great flourishing of modern art in fin-de-siecle Vienna, artists of that city focused on images of individuals. Their portraits depict artists, patrons, families, friends, intellectual allies, and society celebrities from the upwardly mobile middle classes. Viewed as a whole, the images allow ...Show more
LEONARDO DA VINCI: PAINTER AT THE COURT OF MILAN LONDON) by SYSON, LUKE
Category: Art | Series: National Gallery London
Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a painter. This catalogue focuses on a crucial period in the 1480s and '90s when, as a salaried court artist ...Show more
Renaissance Faces: Van Eyck to Titian by Lorne Campbell
Category: Art and Design | Series: National Gallery London
Explores the development of portrait painting in Northern and Southern Europe during the Renaissance, when the genre first flourished. This book considers the relationship between artists of the north and south to illuminate the notion of likeness. It offers research on some of the greatest portraitists ...Show more
Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present by Hope Kingsley
Category: Photography | Series: National Gallery London
Today's photography is part of our own cultural moment, but it also arises from artistic traditions of the past. "Seduced by Art" looks at the effects of art and its history on the creation of photographs, tracing continuities in aims, visual style, and technical experimentation. This sumptuous book sho ...Show more
The Italian Paintings Before 1400: National Gallery Catalogues by Dillian Gordon
Category: Art | Series: National Gallery London
The National Gallery houses one of the most important collections of early Italian paintings outside Italy, including works by Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto and the di Cione brothers. Since these were last catalogued there have been four new acquisitions, while reexamination of the collection has revealed, th ...Show more
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