Richard Parkes Bonington on the Pleasure of Painting Pre-Publication Review Copy

Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Published by J. Paul Getty Museum, 1980. 1st Ed softcover. Rooted in a passion for the Italian Renaissance as well as Dutch and ...

Veronese's Drawings. A Catalogue Raisonné by Richard Cocke. Published in London: Sotheby's Publications, 1984. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Paolo Spezapreda, known as 'Veronese...

This set of antique books were published in England by Leipzig Gernhard Tauchnitz in 1883 and 1884. The two volumns contain Italian sketches by a ...

Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) by Carol Gibson-Wood. Yale Unive...

French Painting Hardcover collectible art book by Charles Stuckey– January 1, 1997 by Charles Stuckey (Author) Hardcover · 320 page Stuckey examines...

By Patricia Reed William Nicholson (1872-1949) is among the most admired and elusive painters in the history of British art. Neither academic nor overtly modernist, his ravishing paintings are a singular achievement of the early twentieth century. Nicholson made his name as a graphic artist in the 1890s before turning to painting full-time. Over the next four decades he explored the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life with exceptional inventiveness, wit and technical skill. Yet his aversion to art groups and his reluctance to make public pronouncements about art have made it difficult to place his work within the main narratives of twentieth-century art history. The breadth of Nicholson's painting is revealed in this sumptuous book, the first fully illustrated catalogue raisonné of the oils. Many of Nicholson's pictures have not been recorded before and most are reproduced here for the first time. The catalogue, which represents more than twenty years of scholarship on the part of its author, Patricia Reed, includes detailed entries on all Nicholson's oil paintings and the most comprehensive chronology of his life to date. The art historian Wendy Baron gives a context for Nicholson in British art at the beginning of the twentieth century, and the painter and critic Merlin James...

This is an antique copy of The Pageant of Venice, a superb early 20th century art and history book written by Edward Hutton with illustrations by the renowned artist Frank Brangwyn. ...

The Story of Painting, the Essential Guide to the History of Western Art. By Sister Wendy Beckett, in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Hardcover book wi...