Yale University Press
Thomas Lawrence: Regency Brilliance and Power
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Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the pre-eminent portraitist of the Regency period, depicting…
Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age
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Seventeenth-century Dutch paintings of the laid table are rich with products of the trade that made…
Contemporary British Studio Ceramics
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In Britain today the output of excellent ceramics seems more eclectic than elsewhere. This stylish…
John Brett, Pre-Raphaelite Landscape Painter
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Drawing on a wealth of unpublished sketchbooks, journals and writings, this essential guide to John…
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors
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Working in his villa in the south of France, Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) suffused his late canvases…
Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange
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Inverting rules with obvious relish, Florentine artist Piero di Cosimo (1462–1522) is known…
Parmigianino
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Parmigianino (1503–1540) was one of the Italian Renaissance’s great geniuses. Characterized by a…
Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention
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Born Emmanuel Radnitzky, the artist known as Man Ray (1890–1976) revealed multiple artistic…
Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt
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Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious…
Venice: Canaletto and His Rivals
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View painting in 18th-century Venice began with the emergence of Luca Carlevarijs and ended with…
The Art of Parmigianino
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The sheer beauty of the work of sixteenth-century artist Parmigianino (1503-40) makes it easy to…
The Empire's New Clothes: A History of the Russian Fashion Industry, 1700-1917
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In 1701, Tsar Peter the Great decreed that all residents of Moscow must abandon their traditional…
A Closer Look: Still Life
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What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the…
Accessorize! 250 Objects of Fashion and Desire
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From purses to parasols, spectacles to slippers, wigs to walking sticks, the Rijksmuseum has a…
Dutch Seventeenth-century Genre Painting
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The appealing genre paintings of great seventeenth-century Dutch artists — Vermeer, Steen, de…
William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings
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The friendship between William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones began when they met as undergraduates…
Luis Melendez: Master of the Spanish Still Life
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Offers a look at the life and work of Luis Melendez, one of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest…
Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey
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In the aftermath of the Revolution, the French public turned to British history as a way of making…
The Drawings of Bronzino
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Drawings by the great Italian Mannerist painter and poet Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572) are extremely…
Jeff Koons
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In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the…