A Closer Look – Faces by Alexander Sturgis, softback from the National Gallery. ISBN 978-1-8570-9464-0, price 7.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
This handy pocket-sized book could accompany you on a visit to the National Gallery or be used by armchair lovers of art. It is a guide to some of the portraits that hang in the National Gallery, [...]
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A Closer Look – Faces by Alexander Sturgis
The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary
The Jaharis Gospel Lectionary, The Story of a Byzantine Book, by John Lowden, hardback published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-300-14899-2, price 18.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
The illustration on the front cover entices you to look inside this book and indeed it is beautifully produced with similar illustrations inside, but not enough for my taste. [...]
Serizawa by Joe Earle (ed)
Serizawa, Master of Japanese Textile Design , ed Joe Earle, softback published by Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15047-6, price 25.00 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
This beautifully produced 134 page book is full of inspiring Japanese textile design. It pays tribute to the work of Serizawa Keisuke, who was designated a living national treasure in 1956, and is considered [...]
A Closer Look at Saints by Erika Langmuir
A Closer Look at Saints by Erika Langmuir, softback by the National Gallery. ISBN 978-1-8570-9465-7, price 7.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
Some of the National Gallery’s religious images are contained in this book, which looks at the significance of saints and their role in the history of European painting. It gives an account as to how and why [...]
Tullio Lombardo by Alison Luchs
Tullio Lombardo by Alison Luchs, hardback published by Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-15667-6, price 45.00 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
Subtitled ‘and the Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture’, this handsome book is a pictorial representation of Venetian sculpture. The accompanying learned text is from many contributors. Links are seen with the work of Bellini and others, at the same time [...]