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SILENT WITNESSES
Trees in British Art, 1760-1870CHRISTIANA PAYNE
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You Save: 50%Many of Britain’s most important landscape painters, including Paul Sandby, John Constable, Samuel Palmer, Edward Lear and the Pre-Raphaelites, made themselves experts in the drawing and painting of... Learn More -
THE ARCHITECTURE OF SUNDERLAND, 1700-1914
MICHAEL JOHNSON and GRAHAM POTTS
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You Save: 51%Sunderland is largely a product of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when coalmining and shipbuilding fuelled rapid expansion and development. Once known as the largest shipbuilding town in the... Learn More -
CAPTAIN LINNAEUS TRIPE
Photographer of India and Burma, 1852-1860ROGER TAYLOR, CRISPIN BRANFOOT and SARAH GREENOUGH
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You Save: 55%Captain Linnaeus Tripe occupies a special place in the history of nineteenth-century photography for the outstanding body of work he produced in India and Burma in the 1850s, despite the challenges th... Learn More -
CHARLOTTE SALOMON AND THE THEATRE OF MEMORY
GRISELDA POLLOCK
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You Save: 45%Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) is renowned for a single, monumental, modernist artwork, Life? or Theatre? (Leben? oder Theater?), comprising 784 paintings and created between 1941 and 1942.... Learn More -
FLORENCE
The Paintings and Frescoes, 1250-1743ROSS KING and ANJA GREBE
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JERUSALEM, 1000-1400
Every People Under HeavenEdited by BARBARA DRAKE BOEHM and MELANIE HOLCOMB
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You Save: 50%Medieval Jerusalem was a vibrant international centre and home to multiple cultures, faiths and languages. Harmonious and dissonant influences from Persian, Turkish, Greek, Syrian, Armenian, Georgian,... Learn More -
LEONARDO DA VINCI AND THE BOOK OF DOOM
Bianca Sforza, the Sforziada and Artful Propaganda in Renaissance MilanSIMON HEWITT
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You Save: 53%A deep investigation into the politics and cynicism of Renaissance Milan. The author brings the tragic Bianca Sforza to life, suggests why and by whom she was likely murdered, and explains why Leonard... Learn More -
MAKING EMMANUEL COOPER
Life and Work from His Memoirs, Letters, Diaries and InterviewsEdited by DAVID HORBURY
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You Save: 45%The memoir Emmanuel Cooper (1938-2012) wrote against the clock, edited and footnoted by his partner. It is full of surprises, reminding us, for example, that ceramics was one of the key counter-cultur... Learn More -
PICTURING INDIA
People, Places and the World of the East India CompanyJOHN McALEER
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You Save: 47%The British engagement with India was an intensely visual one. Images of the subcontinent, produced by artists and travellers in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century heyday of the East India Company... Learn More -
PIETRO BEMBO AND THE INTELLECTUAL PLEASURES OF A RENAISSANCE WRITER AND ART COLLECTOR
SUSAN NALEZYTY
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You Save: 41%One of the most influential scholars of the Renaissance, Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) gained fame not only for his literary theory and poetry, but for his incredible collection of art and antiquities. T... Learn More
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