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The latest addition to the best-selling Colour Library series of introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all Leonardo's painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction.

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Painter, inventor, architect, scientist, and engineer: Leonardo da Vinci stands to this day as one of the most accomplished human beings ever to have lived. Whether the smallest arteries of the human heart, exquisite biblical scenes, or far-flung constellations of the universe, explore his insatiable quest for knowledge, invention, and beauty.

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Suitable for scholars, collectors and Aivazovsky's admirers, this book focuses on the works of 19th century master who raised European maritime painting to a new level.

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The life and work of the French-American sculptor in our series Art to Read

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Kiev-born artist Kazimir Malevich painted Black Square in 1915 and with it established the "zero point of painting," a seminal moment for modern and abstract practice. A century on from the Russian revolution, Malevich's groundbreaking pursuit of pure color and geometry remain pivotal influences in the Russian and global avant-garde.

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Man Ray (1890-1976) was a photographer, painter, and creator of objects, experimental films and images which were at times enigmatic. This book presents images with biographical details, enables the creative process involved in each work and reveals the mechanisms and motivating sources of the artist's inexhaustible imagination.

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Features masterpieces of Italian Renaissance drawings from the British Museum, the Louvre and other French public collections in Lille, Rennes and Montpellier. Examining the drawing as part of the creative process, and showing how it reveals the artists mind at work, this book explains the materials and techniques used in Renaissance drawings.

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The British Museum has one of the finest collection of antiquities from ancient Greece and Rome outside of those countries. This book investigates 180 of these works, including the most famous and also a selection of lesser known but equally important pieces.

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Goldsmiths were among the most highly regarded craftsmen in the medieval world, making extravagant objects from precious gold and silver, often enriched with rare stones and engraved gems. This title explores the goldsmiths craft through works in the British Museum and from collections around the world.

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Michelangelo was a genius of unrivaled virtuosity. This dependable edition traces the extraordinary depth and breadth of his work and his ascent to the elite of the Renaissance and art history with ten richly illustrated chapters covering the artist's paintings, sculptures, and architecture with special focus on the tour de force frescoes of the Sistine Chapel.

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Offers an analysis of the work of Mimmo Paladino, one of the most innovative and established contemporary artists in the world. This book covers his entire oeuvre from 1963 to 2015, his role in renewing painting that, after including environmental interventions, shifted to photography and sculpture, architecture and cinema, opera and theatre.

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Displaying the beauty and skill of Chinese ink paintings through a selection of highlights from the British Museum's collection, Modern Chinese Ink Paintings features hanging scrolls, hand scrolls, large-scale paintings and album leaves to explore the innovative contributions of individual masters from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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In this survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its contemporary manifestations.

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A masterfully narrated account of painting in London from the Second World War to the 1970s, illustrated throughout with documentary photographs and works of art

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A splendid catalogue devoted to the work of an artist who was responsible for some of the most original glass artworks in art history.

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An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting

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This visually striking volume showcases the spectacular work of Olafur Eliasson, the contemporary artist selected for the inaugural exhibition of the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

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The Wests fascination with India from the 1800s to today in painting, photography, music, architecture and design.

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Bringing together Polynesian objects gathered during the early period of contact with European voyagers, missionaries and settlers, this book presents around 270 items with short captions, including sculptures in wood and stone, feather and basketry images, decorated bark cloths, ornaments and valuables of ivory and more.

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This extraordinary memoir of a visionary art dealer chronicles the emergence of the Impressionists and their controversial rise to success.

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A monograph-catalogue that reveals the innovative drive in Paul Gauguin's work. It views Gauguin's artistic development from his early impressionist works to his final masterpieces painted on the Marquesas Islands where the artist went in search of an Arcadian kingdom of ecstasy, peace and art, far from the typical European struggle for money.

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This comprehensive tome in a luxurious cloth-bound slipcase covers all aspects of Picassos artistic career, from self-portraits to sculpture to photography, and features an extensive chronology of his life.