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By: N/A
Price: $10.00
Publisher: The Genesee Valley Council On the Arts: 1976
Seller ID: 2275135
Spine and wrappers lightly toned, minor ink underlining. 1976 Soft Cover. 63 pp. Number five in a Series published by the Genesee Valley Coucil of the Arts and the State University College at Geneseo, N.Y. Includes black-and-white illustrations. Art and history of Western New York dating from the 1700s to the 1900s. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: L.C. Page & Company: 1904
Seller ID: 2199664
Early reprint. Spine toned. 1904 Hard Cover. ix, 389 pp. 8vo. Blue-grey cloth, gilt titles, decoration & rules, gilt top page ridge. A survey of the famous gallery which focuses on the Golden Age of painting in Italy. View more info
By: Bailey, Colin J. (Exhibition and Catalogue)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: University of Birmingham: 1983
Seller ID: 1306290
Nice bright copy. 1983 Soft Cover. 78 pp. This is the largest exhibition of 19th-century German drawings and watercolours ever to be held in this country outside London and the first major exhibition of its kind since 1968, when 150 drawings from the Kunstmuseum in Dusseldorf and the Kunsthalle in Hamburg were shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In Great Britain the Ashmolean Museum's collection of German 19th-century drawings is unique, both numerically a... View more info
By: Bassano; Seiferheld Master Drawings
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Seiferheld Master Drawings: 1961
Seller ID: 1527369
Lightly rubbed. 1961 Stapled Binding. 45 pp. A catalog from an exhibition featuring drawings by members of the famous Bassano family of Renaissance artists. View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Editions Cercle D'Art: 1958
Seller ID: 1529913
No jacket. Gilt titles on spine mostly rubbed away. 1958 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 258 pp. 13 x 10. Text in French. Numerous illustrations & color plates. The State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, c... View more info
By: Bazin, Germain
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York Graphic Society: 1956
Seller ID: 2199985
No jacket, boards toned, pages toned. 1956 Large Hardcover. We have more books available by this author!. 21 pp. Colored plates follow text. 54 illustrations with 46 in color. A look at Italian paintings found in the Louvre's collection.Keywords: LOUVRE FRANCE ITALIAN PAINTING ART ARTISTS View more info
By: Beckford, William [Thomas]; Gemmett, Robert J.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 1971
Seller ID: 2198602
Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket lightly rubbed and toned, jacket price clipped. 1971 Hard Cover. 328 pp. 8vo. Edited, with an introduction and notes, by Robert J. Gemmett. A travel memoir by the British writer best known for Vathek, a pseudo-Oriental Gothic novel, but also notable for his extensive collection of art (much of which now resides in museums), and his construction of Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower. Practically a verbatim reprint of the suppressed... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1959
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199945
First edition. Cloth boards faintly toned.Large tear across front and rear of jacket, chip to jacket front. 1959 Hard Cover. 290 pp. Oto Bihalji-Merin was an acclaimed Yugoslav and Serbian writer, art historian, painter and art critic. In the aftermath of World War II, when art circles in Yugoslavia were pressured to adopt the socialist realism state-approved policies of the Soviet Union, Bihalji-Merin used his influence to defend modernist and naïve art styles. For thi... View more info
By: Boardman, John
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Pelican: 1978
Seller ID: 2195636
Wrappers rubbed. 1978 Trade Paperback. An examination of the oldest artistic artifacts from the Northern Mediterranean. View more info
By: Bramly, Serge; Reynolds, Sian
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Edward Burlingame / Harper Collins: 1991
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2276302
First edition. Jacket very faintly toned. Ink name on front endpaper. 1991 Hard Cover. xvii, 439 pp. First published in France, Serge Bramly's acclaimed biography reveals Leonardo to be as complicated, seductive, and profoundly sympathetic as the figures he painted. Bramly spent five years gathering evidence to reconstruct the artist's life--from his early years as an illegitimate child to his death in the arms of the King of France. Includes color and black-and-white im... View more info
By: Brown, Walter R.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Birmingham Museum of Art: 1991
Seller ID: 2198682
Very Good. 1991 Large Softcover. 176 pp. The purpose of this exhibition and catalogue is to take a broad look at the art of the Stuart era and to draw attention to the traditions that it inherited and developed, as well as to the extraordinary innovations and advances that took place during little more than a hundred years from the accession of James I in 1603 to the death of his great-grand-daughter, Queen Anne, in 1714.Keywords: STUART LEGACY ENGLISH ART HISTORY View more info
By: Byatt, A.S.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Chatto & Windus: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2271605
First edition. Signed by author without inscription. Pages very faintly toned. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. ix, 101 pp. A remarkable, sumptuously illustrated exploration of the links between fiction, writers of fiction and portraits -- by the acclaimed Booker Prize winner. Portraits seem the opposite of fiction, fixed in time and space, not running with the curve of a story or a life. Yet since the birth of the novel, writers have been f... View more info
By: Cirici-Pellicer, Alexandre
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Skira: 1965
Seller ID: 2051436
1 inch jacket tear. 1965 Large Hardcover. Great information on the timeless works of art and architecture that has defined Spanish culture. View more info
By: Cochin, Charles-Nicolas; Michel, Christian
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Ecole Française de Roma: 1991
Seller ID: 2198628
Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1991 Large Hardcover. viii, 510 pp. 57 black-and-white plates. French text. A 1991 facsimile of the 18th century Italian travelogue, originally published in 1758. Edited by Christian Michel. Cochin was a French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic who worked for King Louis XV and traveled with the famous Madame de Pompadour on a study tour of Italy, and later toured the excavations of Herculaneum. View more info
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Chronicle Books: 2003
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2275622
First edition. Jacket edges lightly bumped. 2003 Large Hardcover. 63 pp. Send children on a search for tiny details hidden in full-color reproductions of some of the world's most celebrated works of art. Lift-the-flap keys reveal the solutions to each puzzle and the fascinating stories behind the works that helped art develop throughout the ages. View more info
By: Duclere, Teodoro; Martorell, Luisa; Russo, Mario; Fienga, Andrea
Price: $50.00
Publisher: con-fine edizioni: 2013
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2198627
First edition - a paperback original. 2013 Large Softcover. 351 pp. Italian text. A history of the artistic works of Teodoro Duclere over a period of nearly sixty years, with over 350 images reproduced from the collection in the Museo Correale di Terranova. Dueler was born and died in Naples, Italy. He was part of the School of Posillipo and was known for his landscape paintings. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Abrams: 1975
Seller ID: 2204858
Tiny stain to jacket. 1975 Hard Cover. 160 pp. A loving tribute to the world of Walt Disney & his creations, drawing on unprecedented access to the Disney archives, interviews with current & past employees, & previously unpublished art work. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Abrams: 1975
Seller ID: 2264381
Spine base a bit stained. 1975 Hard Cover. 160 pp. A loving tribute to the world of Walt Disney & his creations, drawing on unprecedented access to the Disney archives, interviews with current & past employees, & previously unpublished art work. View more info
By: Freeman, Margaret B.; Rorimer, James J.
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Cloisters / The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1958
Seller ID: 2195558
Includes original slipcase. Book excellent. Slipcase label lightly toned, gift card affixed to front slipcase panel with handwritten note ('a very merry / Christmas to my / favorite teacher / Gretchen Boland').A few tears and a 1 inch chip along edges of onion skin jacket, with some Japanese tissue repairs on reverse. 1958 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. 8vo. The Belles Heures, from which the ex libris and thirty-two illuminations are here reproduced in facsimile, is one of the... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1987
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2200645
1987 third edition. xvi, 378 pp. A scholarly work of art history focusing on exhibitions of Chinese art that feature 41 works by 24 artists from the 14th to 20th centuries. Color frontispiece, black-and-white reproductions throughout text, with an emphasis on the historical context of the works and their value in artistic study. View more info
By: Garrett, Wendell D.; Norton, Paul F.; Gowans, Alan; Butler, Joseph T.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York: 1969
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2165558
First edition. Faint wrinkle to jacket spine.Very Good. 1969 Large Hardcover. 412 pp. A study of various artistic disciplines during America's first full century as an independent nation, featuring chapters by four writers with diverse backgrounds related to art history. Bibliography and index follow text. View more info
By: Ginzburg, Ralph
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Ace: 1958
Seller ID: 1538002
Pages lightly toned. 1958 Mass Market Paperback. 115 pp. A survey of erotic art throughout history, based on the explosive Esquire magazine article. View more info
Price: $2.00
Publisher: Lucien Goldschmidt: 1969
Seller ID: 1306303
Lightly rubbed, small stain on back cover. 1969 Soft Cover. 123 prints in exhibition, many of them pictured. View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Harper & Row: 1980
Seller ID: 2281305
Ink underlining. 1980 Trade Paperback. This encyclopedic guide explores the rich and varied meanings of more than 2,000 symbols—from amethyst to Zodiac. View more info
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Paul Hamlyn: 1970
Seller ID: 2278875
Lightly rubbed, small wrinkle to endpaper. 1970 Hard Cover. Full-color photographs and historical information on the art of the Empire period of French history. View more info
By: Guth, Christine
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Everyman Art Library: 1996
Seller ID: 2271543
An exceptional copy. 1996 Trade Paperback. The Edo period saw the growth of an urban culture of extraordinary richness, sophistication and cultural diversity, and an unprecendented flowering of the arts, in painting, woodblock prints, ceramics, laquer and textiles. This text offers an overview of the arts of the Edo period as they developed in Kyoto, Edo, Osaka and Nagasaki, illustrated with the work of artists such as Korin, Utamaro and Hokusai, as well as with lesser-k... View more info
By: Hale, Walter
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Century Co.: 1916
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2265807
First edition. Title page and frontispiece foxed, a few other pages foxed more lightly, small dealer bookplate on front endpaper. 1916 Hard Cover. xii, [4], 283, [3] pp. 8vo. A firsthand account of World War I France, with notes, drawings, and photographs. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2204344
First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1986 Large Hardcover. Masterpieces of early Netherlandish painting such as Jan van Eyck's Annunciation, Rogier van der Weyden's Saint George and the Dragon, and Gerard David's Rest on the Flight into Egypt--among the greatest examples of northern Renaissance panel painting in North America--are included in this volume. The social, economic, and religious contexts of the paintings are explored, and questions of attribution and ... View more info
By: Jackson, John
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Gale Research Company: 1969
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2279191
1969 reissue of 1861 second edition, which included a new chapter on contemporary artists by Henry G. Bohn. No jacket, front board slightly bowed, top page ridge and bottom page ride lightly foxed, ink marks on front endpapers. xvi, 664 pp. A Treatise on Wood Engraving: Historical and Practical with Upwards of Three Hundred Illustrations Engraved on Wood, by John Jackson. The Historical Portion by W.A. Chatto. With a New Chapter on the Artists of the Present Day, by Henr... View more info
By: Janson, H.W.; Janson, Anthony F.
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Abrams: 1987
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 2277495
Third edition. Light edge wear. 1987 Large Hardcover. For 40 years this widely praised work has remained unsurpassed as an introduction to art in the Western world. And now-with a more contemporary, more colorful design and with 30 percent more color illustrations than in previous editions-this newest update of the Janson classic is an enticing volume. The book features improved sections on ancient art, modern architecture, Mannerism, and Romanticism. Revised material on... View more info
