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Canadian Art The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario Together with important First Nations material, the Thomson Canadian Collection is the largest of all private holdings of Canadian art. There are rare and incomparable examples of Northwest Coast Aboriginal art. Krieghoff's inspired accounts of life in the Canadas, prior to Confederation, bring the light and atmosphere of history fully into the present. A staggering power to capture the fleeting and the fugitive in paint still distinguishes the work of the early 20th-century painter Morrice.

PUBLISHER: Skylet ISBN: 9781903470831 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £25.00 PAGES: 159 PUBLICATION DATE: October 15, 2008 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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Chevening A Seat of Diplomacy

By Julius Bryant · A hugely welcome new guide to the handsome architecture, sumptuous decoration, notable collections and glorious gardens of Chevening, the grand country residence used typically by Britain's Foreign Secretary

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing

Chevening stands in a magnifi cent park below the wooded escarpment of the North Downs in Kent. It has a history dating back around 800 years, but the house we see today is almost entirely the creation of seven generations of the Stanhope family, building on the original Inigo Jones house of 1630. For 250 years the Stanhopes served their country as soldiers and statesmen, and at Chevening as patrons of architecture and art. This new guide highlights the contributions of the Earls and Countesses Stanhope to the building, furniture, pictures, gardens and landscape of Chevening. It also gives a short account of the family in the wider world in order to set their creations in context.

PUBLICATION DATE: October 31, 2017

The decoration and architectural features of each of the rooms – from the Entrance Hall with its spectacular swirling staircase of c. 1721 to the sumptuous Tapestry Room with its rare Berlin tapestries woven by Huguenot craftsmen in 1708 – are described and illustrated, and signifi cant and unusual works of art highlighted, such as important portraits by Allan Ramsay, Thomas Gainsborough, and Sir Thomas Lawrence. The Estate consists of some 3,000 acres, and the gardens include a lake, maze, parterre and a double hexagonal walled kitchen garden. The history of the garden is explored, from the extensive landscaping in the formal style by the 1st and 2nd Earls in the early 18th century, to the naturalistic style created in 1775–78 – much of the character of which survives today – to the re-formalizing in the 19th century, with the creation of the 'Italian' gardens, a maze and hedged allées. The wonderful restoration of recent decades and the replanting to the designs of Elizabeth Banks is celebrated with new photography.

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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Chevening Act coming into eff ect with the death of the last Earl Stanhop and the 300th anniversary of his family's acquisition of Chevening Estate.

ISBN: 9781911300113 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £30.00 PAGES: 144 ILLUSTRATIONS: 130 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 242mm x 212mm

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A Reservoir of Ideas Essays in Honour of Paul Williamson Edited by Glyn Davies and Eleanor Townsend An invaluable reference for all those interested in the history of sculpture and medieval art. This lavishly illustrated volume is a celebratory tribute to the leading scholar and curator Paul Williamson, formerly Keeper of Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781911300168 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £50.00 PAGES: 292 SPECIFICATION: 287mm x 247mm PUBLICATION DATE: February 28, 2017

This rich collection of over twenty fully illustrated essays covers an array of medieval topics, with a particular emphasis on sculpture. The contributors, all friends and colleagues of the dedicatee, are prominent experts in their different fields, from the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States. The wide range of subjects covered includes ivories, wood carvings, alabaster, architectural sculpture, caskets, reliquaries, and questions of imagery and iconography. With a full scholarly apparatus, A Reservoir of Ideals is an invaluable work of reference. The volume celebrates the museum career and scholarship of Paul Williamson, a scholar and curator whose outstanding contribution to art history continues to expand and inspire the study of sculpture in general and medieval art in particular. Williamson joined the V&Ain 1979 as one of the youngest curators ever appointed. He took over as Chief Curator in 1989, and he was Director of the Collections from 2004-07, and Acting Deputy Director in 2013. During his 36-year career at the V&Ahe wrote 17 books and over 150 articles. Williamson's profound experience and expertise as a curator at the V&Ahave both enhanced his own well-deserved reputation as the leading expert in the study of European sculpture, and simultaneously enriched the standing and holdings of the collections themselves. The works acquired during his time at the V&A, and the gallery displays that he either oversaw or curated himself, amply demonstrate his tremendous range of knowledge and appreciation of art. Despite his wide-ranging expertise and enthusiasm for the art of all periods, it seems fitting that this volume is devoted to medieval art, and primarily to sculpture - the works of art that undoubtedly lie closest to his heart. It is a testament to his standing at the pinnacle of medieval studies that so many leading experts have eagerly contributed to this exceptional collection.

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Decorative Textiles from Arab and Islamic Cultures Selected Works from the Al Lulwa Collection

By Jennifer Wearden and Jennifer Scarce This exceptional collection of Islamic textiles published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are exquisite textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781907372872 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £40.00 PAGES: 200 ILLUSTRATIONS: 140 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 300mm x 245mm PUBLICATION DATE: March 31, 2016 READER INTERESTS: Middle East NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are shared among all media – metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, tilework and textiles. In textiles the main themes are based on angular and geometric shapes – vertical and horizontal striped bands; hexagons and octagons, which can be linked and infinitely extended; stylized and rhythmic scrolls of foliage and flowers; and Arabic calligraphy, of which the letters can be formed into continuous borders, panels and medallions. These motifs can be used separately or combined into complex patterns, of which the repetitive and twodimensional features are ideal for textile production, especially where varying lengths are required – for hangings, curtains, robes and shawls.

Valued for their role in the subtleties of court ceremonial and fashion, these textiles were also much admired beyond the Islamic lands.

The exceptional collection published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent linked by a shared vocabulary of ornament – evidence of the international nature of Islamic design. Materials represented are silk – the most prestigious of fibres, requiring highly respected weavers – wool, cotton and linen. Decoration is based on variations of weave and colour and embellishment through embroidery, printing and appliqué and illustrates the work of both professional and domestic workers.

The strengths of the collection are concentrated in the textile production of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which, thanks to the basically conservative nature of textile technique and design, preserve and continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world. They are important in an assessment of Islamic textiles both for their quality and as illustrations of survival and adaptation in a major industry.

Their heritage reaches back well over a thousand years, even though their very high perishability means that for the earlier part of the tradition our knowledge is reliant very largely on written sources. These, however, attest to the superb quality and quantity of textiles at the courts of the period.

OTHER FORMATS AVAILABLE: Paperback, 9781907372872, £20 Hardback, 9781907372957, £50

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Basic Instincts Love, Lust and Violence in the Art of Joseph Highmore

By Jaaqueline Riding The first major publication dedicated to the important 18th-century British artist Joseph Highmore, whose works address themes ranging from love, friendship and motherhood, to abuse, abandonment, infant death and murder. His extraordinary painting The Angel of Mercy, the centrepiece of this book, is one of the most controversial images in 18th-century British art.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781911300281 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £25.00 PAGES: 120 ILLUSTRATIONS: 80 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 260mm x 216mm PUBLICATION DATE: September 30, 2017 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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The Museum by the Park 14 Queen Anne's Gate

By Max Bryant The depth of history at Queen Anne's Gate – a handsome Baroque street overlooking St James's Park – is unusual even in London, and few houses resonate with more memories than the extraordinary number 14. The story of the house over the centuries features political revolutionaries, occult initiations, clandestine war meetings, and a decapitated head. It begins, however, as a museum of Roman sculpture, unrivalled outside Italy, designed for connoisseur and virtuoso Charles Townley (1737–1805).

Townley embodied Enlightenment values perhaps more completely than any other figure in the art world of 18th-century Britain – his portrait by Johann Zoff any (seen above) is one of the iconic paintings of the period – yet remarkably he has never been the subject of a major publication.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781911300328 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £25.00

Written with a sparkle matching Townley's own enthusiasm, this beautiful and engaging publication tells the story of 14 Queen Anne's Gate and examines the extraordinary life of Charles Townley and his remarkable collection of over 150 Roman marble statues (mostly now in the British Museum but captured in spectacular engravings of the period). It will be a revelation. The house was designed as a temple to the past, reviving in the modern city the occult practices of the ancient world. Here visitors in eighteenth century would have found an assembly of Roman sculpture unrivalled outside Italy, as well as a library and collection devoted to understanding a universal 'generative sprit' worshipped by early civilizations. That spirit may be found in the succession of major roles the house has continued to take through generations of dramatic change up to the present day.

PAGES: 128 ILLUSTRATIONS: 100 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 260mm x 215mm PUBLICATION DATE: October 31, 2017 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture

Charles Townley, for whom the house was built, was a fi gure both marginal and emblematic. Catholic and bisexual, he forged a life literally on the borders of the Protestant British establishment. He remains little understood or appreciated in his homeland and, remarkably, has never been the subject of a major exhibition or publication. The 'emblematic' side of Townley's life was dedicated to virtù, the term used for an appreciation of fi ne art pursued for its own sake. The 'marginal' side of Townley, by contrast, manifested itself in a fascination with the ancient occult, particularly the Bacchic mysteries. The house he made for himself was at once a temple to virtù and to Bacchus and contained an unprecedented programme of Bacchic iconography.

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THOMSON COLLECTION AT THE ART GALLE Celebrating the recent opening of the Thomson Collection galleries at the transformed Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.

They have been redesigned by Canadian architect Frank Gehry--five new books recording Ken Thomson's historic donation of 2,000 superb works of art have been published by Skylet in association with the AGO. All five jacketed paperbacks are available in a box set.

ISBN: 9781903470862 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £100.00 PUBLICATION DATE: October 15, 2008 NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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Pride and Persecution Jan Steen's Old testament Scenes

By Robert Wenley, Nina Cahill and Rosalie Van Gulick · Full of humanity and even humour, the Old Testament paintings by master visual storyteller Jan Steen are often treated like incidents in 17th-century Holland.

This groundbreaking examination considers the infl uence of Jewish history and Dutch theatre on this exciting element of his oeuvre

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781911300090 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £25.00 PAGES: 80 ILLUSTRATIONS: 46 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 210mm x 210mm PUBLICATION DATE: October 1, 2017 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

The Leiden-born artist Jan Steen (1626–1679) is widely admired as one of the most engaging and technically brilliant painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This volume accompanies an exhibition that will be the first in the UK devoted to Steen's Old Testament subjects. The focal point will be his magnificent Wrath of Ahasuerus (c.1668–69), one of the highlights of the Barber's collection, which will be joined by a number of other paintings by Steen from private and public collections across the world.

Three essays will examine the core themes of the show – the role of Jewish history in Steen's Old Testament scenes; the infl uence of Dutch theatre on his work; and the critical response to his Old Testament paintings from the 17th century to date.

Robert Wenley (Barber Institute of Fine Arts) will look at how the Dutch nation established its identity in part by associating its people with the Biblical Israelites, seeing themselves as persecuted by the Spanish for their faith. He will explore the popularity of the story of Esther and other Old Testament subjects in Dutch culture – in plays as well as paintings – and the possibility of Jewish patrons for Steen's Old Testament paintings.

Nina Cahill (University of Kassel) will put forward new research about how Steen adopted the gestural language of contemporary Dutch theatre, amateur and professional, in order to represent the key fi gures in these scenes and to convey the pivotal dramatic moments. In some instances, Steen may have been quoting from an actual production of a play based on the Biblical story.

Rosalie van Gulick (Utrecht University) will consider how Steen's Old Testament scenes have been received and understood over the years. She will investigate how the apparent farcical character of these scenes has been understood over the centuries and why they have prompted adversely critical responses from some modern art historians.

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Decorative Textiles from Arab and Islamic Cultures Selected Works from the Al Lulwa Collection

By Jennifer Wearden and Jennifer Scarce This exceptional collection of Islamic textiles published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are exquisite textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent, mainly from the 19th and early 20th centuries, which continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781907372957 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £50.00 PAGES: 200 ILLUSTRATIONS: 140 colour illus.

PUBLICATION DATE: April 30, 2016 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

One of the most distinctive features of Islamic design is the evolution of an increasingly abstract and repetitive repertoire of motifs, which are shared among all media – metalwork, woodwork, ceramics, tilework and textiles. In textiles the main themes are based on angular and geometric shapes – vertical and horizontal striped bands; hexagons and octagons, which can be linked and infinitely extended; stylized and rhythmic scrolls of foliage and flowers; and Arabic calligraphy, of which the letters can be formed into continuous borders, panels and medallions. These motifs can be used separately or combined into complex patterns, of which the repetitive and twodimensional features are ideal for textile production, especially where varying lengths are required – for hangings, curtains, robes and shawls.

Valued for their role in the subtleties of court ceremonial and fashion, these textiles were also much admired beyond the Islamic lands.

The exceptional collection published here ranges widely in region, material and technique. There are textiles and garments from North Africa, Syria, Arabia, Iran, Turkey and the Indian subcontinent linked by a shared vocabulary of ornament – evidence of the international nature of Islamic design. Materials represented are silk – the most prestigious of fibres, requiring highly respected weavers – wool, cotton and linen. Decoration is based on variations of weave and colour and embellishment through embroidery, printing and appliqué and illustrates the work of both professional and domestic workers.

The strengths of the collection are concentrated in the textile production of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which, thanks to the basically conservative nature of textile technique and design, preserve and continue the traditions established in the medieval Islamic world. They are important in an assessment of Islamic textiles both for their quality and as illustrations of survival and adaptation in a major industry.

Their heritage reaches back well over a thousand years, even though their very high perishability means that for the earlier part of the tradition our knowledge is reliant very largely on written sources. These, however, attest to the superb quality and quantity of textiles at the courts of the period.

OTHER FORMATS AVAILABLE: Paperback, 9781907372872, £20

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OSKAR REINHART COLLECTION This volume, with full entries on the entire collection of 207 works by 45 leading scholars in their field, both American and European, and superb plates carefully checked against the originals, sets out to rectify this state of affairs.

When Oskar Reinhart (1885–1965) bequeathed a significant part of his remarkable art collection – chiefly of French nineteenth-century painting but also containing a number of outstanding Old Masters – to the Swiss nation, he did so on condition that the works of art would never be loaned. As a consequence the many very important works in the collection have not been discussed in major exhibition catalogues and have not received the scholarly attention they deserve.

ISBN: 9781903470381 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £65.00 PUBLICATION DATE: August 15, 2006 NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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The Honour and Grandeur Regalia, Gold and Silver at the Mansion House

By Ralph Holt, Michael Hall and Clare Gifford Timed to coincide with the first ever public exhibition of the Crystal Sceptre, this new book will present the Sceptre and over 80 of the finest, most historic pieces in the plate collection at Mansion House – the home and office of the Lord Mayor of the City of London.

The greatest treasure of the City of London has been, until now, the least known. The unique Crystal Sceptre of c.1420 - seen only at the inauguration of the Lord Mayor and at coronations, and never photographed before - is here presented with as much as is known of its history, its materials and their origins and its first recorded outing, to the coronation of Catherine of Valois, the wife of King Henry V, in 1421 at Westminster Abbey.

PUBLISHER: Sam Fogg ISBN: 9781907372896 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £15.00 PAGES: 200 ILLUSTRATIONS: 100 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 212mm x 168mm PUBLICATION DATE: October 31, 2015 READER INTERESTS: Art History NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

Timed to coinicide with the first ever public exhibition of the Crystal Sceptre, which opens on the occasion of the 600-year anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, this new book will present the Sceptre and over 80 of the finest and most historic pieces in the plate collection at Mansion House - the home, office and centre of entertainment for the Lord Mayor of the City of London. The regalia includes several famous items, notably the 16th-century gold and enamel Chain of Esses, the great Mace of 1735-36 and the Pearl Sword of the 1570s, carried by the Lord Mayor before the Sovereign on visits to the City. The silver-gilt and silver, used constantly during the year, includes pieces by some of the greatest names of English silversmithing - Paul de Lamerie and Paul Storr, for example - but also rare ones by more modern masters - Latino Movio and Omar Ramsden - including masterpieces previously completely unknown to silver historians.

An inscription on a silver-gilt cup presented to the Lord Mayor in 1741 records that the intention of the gift was to increas - the Honour and Grandeur - of the City of London. It is just one piece of a vast, eclectic and exceptional collection of plate, which is constantly in use at the Guildhall and Mansion House today to uphold that honour and in the grandest way possible - a rare survival of medieval practices of display. The quality and quantity of the 19th- and 20th-century pieces in particular is extraordinary.

This volume is the third in the series on the treasures of Mansion House, following The Harold Samuel Collection of Dutch and Flemish Paintings (2012) and Magnificent Marble Statutes: A Guide to the Sculpture at the Mansion House (2013). Intended to introduce to a broad audience the plate collection - as well as the history of the Lord Mayors, the City guilds and Mansion House itself, and the formation of the collection, it will also be of interest to specialists in silver, who will discover many masterpieces of style and technique.

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This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rural idyll and the countryside more broadly, through the innovative integration of a wide range of art and visual cultures. These include classic landscapes by artists such as Blake, Claude, Constabl The Rural Idyll

By Verity Elson and Edited by Rosemary Shirley · In addition to the new scholarship on the rural idyll – by academic experts from a wide range of disciplines, encompassing the spheres of art history, contemporary art, poetry, literature, rural history, agriculture, and everyday life – it includes interviews with ten key contemporary artists who are working with the rural in innovative ways PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing

· It contains newly commissioned material from leading artists and writers which articulate the themes of the publication in ways that differ from the traditional catalogue essay

ISBN: 9781911300106

· It will include a specially commissioned visual essay by Jeremy Deller.

BINDING: Paperback

In the contemporary art world the rural is seriously under-represented as an arena of critical inquiry and artistic production

PRICE: £20.00 PAGES: 120 SPECIFICATION: 260mm x 216mm PUBLICATION DATE: March 18, 2017 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

· This publication will make a significant contribution towards redressing this situation · Highly original and vibrant study that will examine how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll and how contemporary artists continue to access and often challenge this concept The rural idyll is a powerful force in the British national imagination. This highly original and vibrant study will examine how key moments in art history have shaped the concept of the idyll and how contemporary artists continue to access and often challenge this concept.

This publication offers new ways of thinking about the rural idyll and the countryside more broadly, through the innovative integration of a wide range of art and visual cultures. These include classic landscapes by artists such as Blake, Claude, Constable and Turner, works of modern British art, and contemporary works by artists who present new perspectives on the rural idyll. Crucially, this volume will enter these familiar and unfamiliar art works into a productive dialogue with an extensive range of visual cultures which populate everyday life now and in the past, for instance Frank

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Newbould's iconic wartime recruitment posters of 1942–44 and rural-themed video games. In the contemporary art world the rural is seriously under-represented as an arena of critical inquiry and artistic production. This publication will make a significant contribution towards redressing this situation.

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OLIVETAN GRADUAL (ITALIAN)

ISBN: 9781903470909 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £15.00 PUBLICATION DATE: September 15, 2008 NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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Building a Crossing Tower A Design for Rouen Cathedral of 1516

By Costanza Beltrami Prompted by the recent discovery of a 3-metre tall Gothic drawing of a soaring tower that was never built, this book offers a rare insight into the processes of designing and building a major Gothic project. Who drew this, and when? This book explores these questions, and uncovers the dramatic circumstances in which the drawing was created.

PUBLISHER: Sam Fogg ISBN: 9781907372933 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £25.00 PAGES: 136 ILLUSTRATIONS: 70 colour illus.

SPECIFICATION: 300mm x 245mm PUBLICATION DATE: January 22, 2016 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture Medieval & Renaissance NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

Prompted by the recent discovery of an impressive three-metre tall late Gothic drawing of a soaring tower and spire, this book offers a rare insight into the processes of designing and building a major gothic project. The drawing's place and date of creation are unknown, and it corresponds to no surviving Gothic tower. Equally mysterious is the three-quarter, top-down perspective from which the tower is represented, without parallel in any other medieval drawings. Who drew this? When? And what did he hope to convey with his choice of a top-down representation of the tower? Building a Crossing Tower explores these questions, and uncovers the dramatic circumstances in which this drawing was created.

The first part of the book links the drawing to an early 16th-century building project in the city of Rouen in Normandy, France. Rouen was then a thriving port, one of the most populous cities in France, and a vibrant construction site, where dazzling, flamboyant creations were erected side by side with Renaissance buildings. At the centre of this intense building activity was Roulland le Roux, the city's leading master mason, most likely the author of the newly discovered drawing. Given the scarcity of French gothic drawing, the discovery of this impressive piece and its attribution to a known artist are significant events in themselves. Moreover, in this exceptional case it is also possible to recreate the social context of the drawing's production, explored in the second part of the book. Previously unpublished minutes of the cathedral chapter reveal that the drawing was realised following the dramatic fire which destroyed the cathedral's crossing tower in 1514. The fire sparked fierce disputes among the cathedral's canons, who divided into two factions: one hoping to see the crossing tower reconstructed in stone, the other lobbying for a safer and cheaper wooden spire. The differences between the two parties and the changing fortunes of artists employed in the reconstruction project are documented in gripping detail in the chapter's minutes, which reveal how the new drawing was commissioned and realised. But the minutes also reveal that this drawing ultimately failed to convince the chapter to support and authorise the project, despite its impressive size, perspective and skilful representation of virtuoso carving. The flamboyant gothic tower never was erected, and the worksite came to a standstill until 1542, when a Renaissance tower was eventually built by Robert Becquet. This drawing then represents a failed design proposal. Yet, for this very reason, it offers a unique insight into the politics of building a great late gothic project, shedding light on an ever-changing landscape of contrasts and collaborations. If drawings are often interpreted as a direct window into a master's mind, graced by the touch of his hand, this drawing is unexpectedly revealed as a mirror of the social life of a key late Gothic building site.

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Legacy of the Masters Islamic Painting and Calligraphy

By Will Kwiatkowski A stunning collection, accumulated over many years, of paintings, drawings and calligraphy of the highest quality mostly created for albums from the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires from the 16th to early 19th century. Lavishly illustrated, this unusually exquisite and scholarly book is a noteworthy addition to its field.

A stunning collection, accumulated over many years, of paintings, drawings and calligraphy of the highest quality mostly created for albums from the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires from the 16th to early 19th century. Lavishly illustrated, this unusually exquisite and scholarly book is a noteworthy addition to its field.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781911300731 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £50.00 PAGES: 224 SPECIFICATION: 300mm x 235mm PUBLICATION DATE: October 1, 2019 READER INTERESTS: Art History Middle East NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

This publication presents a collection of over sixty paintings, drawings and calligraphic specimens mostly made in the Safavid, Uzbek, Ottoman and Mughal Empires in the period from the 16th through the early 19th century for inclusion in albums (muraqqa').

The compilation of these albums, involving the collection and ordering of the works to be included as well as the design and execution of decorative borders, was an art form in itself and amounted to a broader cultural phenomenon that has increasingly become the focus of scholarly attention.

This was the age of the master artist, whose work was eagerly sought by collectors, imitated by admirers and forgers, taken as loot by invaders, and exchanged as gifts that had value across political borders. The international currency of a master artist's work is particularly apparent in the case of the calligrapher Mir 'Ali of Herat (d. 1544), whose calligraphies were almost obsessively sought out by the Mughal rulers of India and provided a model for subsequent generations of calligraphers in India and Iran.

In Iran, Shah 'Abbas' new capital of Isfahan was the breeding ground for a generation of artists specialized in single-page calligraphic compositions, paintings and drawings, often working in distinctive styles. These included calligraphers such as Mir 'Imad alHasani and 'Ali Riza 'Abbasi, and painters like Riza 'Abbasi, Muhammad Qasim and, later, Mu'in Musavvir.

The processes of collection and compilation were complex, as albums were gifted and reassembled to suit the tastes and outlook of new owners. An eloquent example of this ongoing evolution is the famous St. Petersburg Album. Compiled and given decorative borders in Iran in the mid-18th century, the album contains a number of Mughal and Deccani paintings and drawings presumed to have been taken to Iran as plunder by Nadir Shah following the invasion of India in 1739. The end of this tradition is marked in the publication by a number of works from Mughal-style albums of calligraphy and painting acquired by officers and administrators of the British East India Company such as Warren Hastings and William Fraser.

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Kenneth Thomson the Collector The Thomson Collection at the Art Gallery of Ontario Ken Thomson was no mere trophy gatherer. A man of passionate commitment and of wide-ranging cultural curiosity, the late Lord Thomson of Fleet (1923–2006) began a half-century of collecting in 1953 and continued to the very end of his life. The most important private art collection in Canada, it has drawn the respect of museum curators worldwide.

PUBLISHER: Skylet ISBN: 9781903470794 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £25.00 PAGES: 200 PUBLICATION DATE: October 15, 2008 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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HOGARTH, FRANCE AND BRITISH ART

By Robin Simon

ISBN: 9780955406300

Hogarth has long been viewed as an insular and chauvinistic individual, with a particular aversion to all things French. On the contrary, while Hogarth himself liked to project this image, his effective invention of British art was founded upon a profound knowledge of contemporary French art and theory. This lavishly illustrated book conjures up in great detail the French and wider European context within which Hogarth's art was formed. Robin Simon examines the ways in which Hogarth interacted with and influenced his contemporaries not only in painting and printmaking, but also in sculpture, poetry, the novel, the theater, public life, art education, copyright law, music and opera. In this wide-ranging but richly detailed book, full of analyses of individual works, the author draws upon a mass of new material, with fresh analyses of Hogarth's most famous and less well-known works alike, opening a window on to one of the most creative and formative periods in British life. Robin Simon, FSA, is Editor of The British Art Journal, having been Editor of Apollo magazine and a tenured university academic for many years before that. He is the author of many scholarly articles on British art, and his books include The Portrait in Britain and America (1987).

BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £45.00 PAGES: 448 SPECIFICATION: 296mm x 218mm PUBLICATION DATE: January 15, 2007 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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Bruegel in Black and White Three Grisailles Reunited

By Karen Serres Accompanying a display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only 3 known grisaille paintings, this book will examine the sources, function and reception of these 3 exquisite and unusual masterpieces.

Accompanying a focused display at The Courtauld Gallery that will bring together for the first time Pieter Bruegel the Elder's only three known grisaille paintings – the Courtauld's Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery (which is barred from travel), The Death of the Virgin from Upton House in Warwickshire (National Trust) and Three Soldiers from the Frick Collection in New York – this book will examine the sources, function and reception of these three exquisite masterpieces. The panels will be complemented by prints and contemporary replicas, as well by other independent grisailles in order to shed light on the development of this genre in Northern Europe.

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781907372940 BINDING: Paperback

Despite his status as the seminal Netherlandish painter of the 16th century, Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525–1569) remains an elusive artist: fewer than forty paintings are ascribed to him. Of these, a dozen are cabinet-sized. These small-scale works offer key insights as they often bear a personal significance for the artist and were sometimes given as gifts to friends and patrons. Presenting these works together for the first time is not only an extraordinary and unprecedented opportunity but it will be extremely revealing, considering their unusual nature in both Bruegel's oeuvre and 16th-century art in general.

PRICE: £12.95 PAGES: 60 ILLUSTRATIONS: 40 colour illus.

PUBLICATION DATE: February 4, 2015 READER INTERESTS: Art History Medieval & Renaissance NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

Monochrome painting in shades of grey was a mainstay of Netherlandish art from the early 15th century, most often present on the wings of altarpieces and preparatory sketches for engravings. In contrast, Bruegel's panels constitute one of the earliest and rare examples of independent cabinet pictures in grisaille, created for private contemplation and enjoyment. This seemingly austere type of painting has often been imbued with religious or political significance. On a purely artistic level, it enabled the painter to showcase his skill by limiting his palette. The publication, which includes a technical investigation of the three panels, will provide the opportunity to reassess the practical aspects of the grisaille technique and the many ways in which this effect was achieved. Indeed, Bruegel's three monochromatic paintings display quite different techniques, raising the question of the painter's intent.

This is the latest in the series of books accompanying critically acclaimed Courtauld Gallery displays, following on from Collecting Gauguin (2013), Antiquity Unleashed (2013), Richard Serra (2013), A Dialogue with Nature (2014), Bruegel to Freud (2014) and Jonathan Richardson (2015).

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Inspired by Italy Dutch Landscape Painting 1600-1700

By Anne Charlotte Steland and Laurie Harwood

PUBLISHER: Dulwich ISBN: 9781898519195 BINDING: Paperback PRICE: £25.00 PAGES: 224 ILLUSTRATIONS: 75 colour & 75 b&w illustrations SPECIFICATION: 244mm x 272mm PUBLICATION DATE: March 15, 2003 NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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Collecting for the Public Works That Made a Difference Edited by Bart Cornelis, Ger Luijten, Louis Van Tilborgh and Tim Zeedijk · "Best Art books of 2016" Evening Standard In this celebration of collecting, in 34 essays, renowned curators and art historians discuss the acquisition of works of art, medieval to modern, by museums in Europe and the United States – acquisitions that have made a difference, crucial acquisitions from a more distant but also the recent past.

There was a time when museums might have been regarded as rather forbidding and austere centres of learning, but today they are more likely to position themselves firmly within the tourism and leisure industry with all manner of food, fun and family

PUBLISHER: Paul Holberton Publishing ISBN: 9781911300045 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £30.00

entertainment on offer. A high-profile museum brand often relies on a fast-changing menu of temporary exhibitions with an attractive programme of activities, cleverly marketed to ever-growing numbers of visitors. Many of these changes have been positive and beneficial but they have not been without risk to the central purpose of museums as repositories for collections that are looked after, researched and displayed with knowledge and sensitivity. The permanent collection should be the heart and soul of any museum. Nurtured and developed with intelligence, a collection can be an endless source of surprise and delight as well as a focus of local and national pride.

The museum in this view is a setting for sustained encounters with objects and works of art, somewhere to be visited and revisited over the course

PAGES: 240 SPECIFICATION: 260mm x 216mm PUBLICATION DATE: June 16, 2016 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

of a lifetime, a place that helps to bind communities, with collections that are cared for and shared as a reminder of the past and a source of inspiration for the present. The process of acquiring works for public collections is rarely easy in any setting. In the face of escalating prices on the art market and diminishing public funds it is all too easy for complacency and apathy to settle upon the museum community. But the task of building collections of national or local importance is never finished. It should not be about casual 'shopping' or satisfying the whims of museum directors or sponsors. It is about building a heritage that is richer, more complete and more relevant for future generations; with every successful acquisition, a museum's collection gains in strength and character. The volume is dedicated to Peter Hecht, the great champion of public art collections, who throughout his career has worked to show us why museums matter and how their collections, large or small, national or local, can make a profound difference to the lives of those who use them. We hope that it will bring people the world over to realise the importance of collecting for the public, locally, nationally and internationally, and to acknowledge and encourage the role of private individuals, associations and institutions, as well as public bodies, in this vital endeavour.

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MASTERS AND PUPILS

By Gert-Rudolf Flick This book is about a family tree: the line of descent that can be traced from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth. It is not the usual kind of genealogy, of those connected by blood, more an 'apostolic succession', following the way in which art in Europe was taught, from one generation to the next, from 1480 to 1880. The book reveals how the nature and methods of artistic instruction changed over the centuries, from the guild system and the individual workshop to the academy and the establishment of state institutions dedicated to the purpose, as exemplified in France.

ISBN: 9780955406324 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £50.00 PAGES: 400 SPECIFICATION: 305mm x 248mm PUBLICATION DATE: March 15, 2008 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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Irish Paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland Volume 1

By Nicola Figgis and Brendan Rooney The first volume cataloging the Irish painters in the National Gallery of Ireland covers more than 220 paintings from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth century, including figures such as George Barret, James Barry, Hugh Douglas Hamilton, William Hickey, Nathaniel Hone, Charles Jervas, James Latham, Thomas Roberts, and Martin Archer Shee. All of the paintings are illustrated in excellent color reproductions.

These paintings are not only of intrinsic interest but provide important insights into the social, political, cultural, and environmental history of eighteenth-century Ireland.

PUBLISHER: NGI ISBN: 9780903162708 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £60.00 PAGES: 496 SPECIFICATION: 292mm x 248mm PUBLICATION DATE: March 15, 2006 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF

By Peter Somerville-Large The National Gallery of Ireland was founded in 1854 and has since acquired an extraordinary collection of masterpieces by artists such as Caravaggio, Lanfranco, Poussin, Rubens, Uccello, Velázquez, and Vermeer, as well as British artists such as Gainsborough and Reynolds and the leading lights of Irish art, from James Barry to Jack Yeats. The Gallery has expanded steadily, benefiting from the royalties to the works of George Bernard Shaw and from numerous generous donations by figures such as Lane, Milltown, Beit, Mahon, and Chester Beatty.

The story of the Gallery, with all its tribulations and struggles, good and bad luck, good and bad judgement, all its personalities, is told for the first time. It displays the breadth and depth of the collection, but it also reveals much about the rebirth of a nation and changing attitudes to art over time.

ISBN: 9781904288084 BINDING: Hardback PRICE: £40.00 PAGES: 480 SPECIFICATION: 254mm x 178mm PUBLICATION DATE: March 15, 2006 READER INTERESTS: Art Art & Culture NOT FOR SALE: CA, MX, US

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