National Gallery
Companion Guide
ISBN: PB: 9781857097030,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
February 2024
400 pp., 23,9x17,4 cm, 230 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,9x17,4 cm, 230 colour illus.
"The National Gallery: Companion Guide" celebrates over 200 masterpieces from one of the finest art collections in the world. The reader is guided through the history of the Western European painting tradition, from the thirteenth to the twentieth ce...
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22.00 GBP
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Landscape
ISBN: PB: 9781857096279,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
February 2018
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 80 colour illus.
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 80 colour illus.
Landscape is probably the most popular type of painting, but anyone who has ever been disappointed by vacation photographs knows how difficult it is to turn a view into a picture. This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space...
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9.99 GBP
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Still Life
ISBN: PB: 9781857095005,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
November 2010
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 80 colour illus.
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 80 colour illus.
What is still life? We are familiar with the objects portrayed but have difficulty explaining the essence of this popular art form. Erika Langmuir examines the special fascination of still life, and what distinguishes it from other categories of pain...
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9.99 GBP
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Allegory
ISBN: PB: 9781857094855,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
May 2010
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 90 colour illus.
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Allegory" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide helps readers understand the language of allegory within Western painti...
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9.99 GBP
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Angels
ISBN: PB: 9781857094848,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
May 2010
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 90 colour illus.
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Formerly part of the popular "Pocket Guides" series, "Angels" is published in a new edition as "A Closer Look", with a wealth of beautiful reproductions. This informative guide helps readers identify angels and their significance in a painting – be i...
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9.99 GBP
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Saints
ISBN: PB: 9781857094657,
Yale University Press,
National Gallery London,
January 2010
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 90 colour illus.
96 pp., 21,0x14,8 cm, 90 colour illus.
Drawing on the National Gallery's comprehensive collection of religious images, "A Closer Look: Saints" explains the importance of saints and their role in the history of European painting.
Erika Langmuir underlines the fundamental importance of sai...
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9.99 GBP
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Imagining Childhood
Themes in the Imagery of Childhood
ISBN: HB: 9780300101317,
Yale University Press,
October 2006
256 pp., 27,0x20,4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.
256 pp., 27,0x20,4 cm, 45 colour images, 55 black&white illus.
The images of children that abound in Western art do not simply mirror reality; they are imaginative constructs, representing childhood as a special stage of human life, or emblematic of the human condition itself. In a compelling book ranging widely...
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47.50 GBP
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