Duccio to Leonardo, Italian Painting 1250-1500 by Simona de Nepi, softback published by The National Gallery. ISBN 978-1-8570-9421-3, price 9.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
This latest title in the series from The National Gallery covers 250 years of Italian painting. Like all the book in this excellent series, there is a series of mainly full page plates of [...]
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Duccio to Leonardo by Simona de Nepi
A Closer Look: Colour by David Bomford et al
A Closer Look: Colour by David Bomford & Ashok Roy, softback published by the National Gallery. ISBn 978-1-8570-9442-8, price 7.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
We look at paintings as a whole, instead of considering the colour, how it was achieved, why it was chosen. This compact book takes a closer look at colour, exploring how painters apply colour, [...]
El Greco to Goya by Dawson W Carr
El Greco to Goya Spanish Painting by Dawson W Carr, softback published by the National Gallery. ISBN 978-1-8570-9460-2, price 9.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
This 72 page book traces the history of Spanish painting from Master of Riglos to Goya, extending from the mid fifteenth century with the birth of Master of Riglos and Murillo to 1828 when [...]
Picasso Challenging The Past
Picasso Challenging The Past, hardback published by The National Gallery. ISBN 978-1-8750-9452-7, price 19.99 from www.yalebooks.co.uk
This informative book examines what Picasso learnt from the Masters and how he interpreted and used what he learned from them. His influences include the Spanish Masters such as Velazquez and Goya but also Rembrandt and Cezanne amongst others. The [...]