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FRA ANGELICO
GABRIELE BARTZ
£6.50The artist and Dominican friar posthumously called Fra Angelico (c1395-1455) pioneered many of the stylistic trends that distinguish the early Renaissance, including the rational treatment of pictoria... Learn More -
HIGH SPIRITS
The Comic Art of Thomas RowlandsonKATE HEARD
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You Save: 53%Portly squires and rake-thin curates. Jane Austen heroines and their gruesome chaperones. Dashing young officers and corrupt old politicians. The keenly observant caricatures by Thomas Rowlandson (175... Learn More -
THE IMAGE OF VENICE
Fialetti’s View and Sir Henry WottonDEBORAH HOWARD and HENRIETTA McBURNEY
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You Save: 57%This beautiful volume explores the creation of one of the largest surviving depictions of Venice, which has remained almost unknown since its creation four centuries ago. Signed and dated 1611, the pa... Learn More -
INFORMAL BEAUTY
The Photographs of Paul NashSIMON GRANT
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You Save: 48%Best known for his evocative landscape paintings, Paul Nash (1889-1946) was also a consummate photographer, who believed that the camera could reveal aspects of the world that the painter could not. W... Learn More -
IT’S ALL A BIT HEATH ROBINSON
Re-inventing the First World WarLUCINDA GOSLING
In association with Mary Evans Picture LibraryList Price: £9.99
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You Save: 41%Combining a distinctive draughtsmanship with a curious and ingenious mind, the advent of the First World War inspired Heath Robinson to dream up a series of increasingly outlandish and bizarre militar... Learn More -
KEEP BRITAIN TIDY
And Other Posters from the Nanny StateHESTER VAIZEY
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You Save: 47%This collection of public information posters from the period 1945-75 is published in conjunction with the National Archives, where the originals are located. The posters provide an insight into the p... Learn More -
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE PIANO
The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians: from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in BetweenSTUART ISACOFF
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You Save: 41%Presenting the instrument that has been at the core of musical development over the centuries in all its beauty and complexity, this history of the piano explores its capabilities and the range of emo... Learn More -
PARISH CHURCH TREASURES
The Nation’s Greatest Art CollectionJOHN GOODALL
Photography by PAUL BARKERList Price: £25.00
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You Save: 53%Our parish churches constitute a living patrimony without European parallel. Their cultural riches are astonishing, not only for their quality and quantity, but also their diversity and interest. Fine... Learn More -
PEACOCK & VINE
On William Morris and Mariano FortunyA S BYATT
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You Save: 47%The Arts and Crafts Movement promoted a philosophy that challenged the distinctions between fine art and craft, family life and work. Byatt has applied this unifying principle to a study of two endles... Learn More -
SHADOWS
The Depiction of Cast Shadows in Western ArtE H GOMBRICH
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You Save: 39%Gombrich discusses the way shadows were represented -- or ignored -- by artists from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century and then describes how Romantic, Impressionist and Surrealist artists ex... Learn More
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