Sasanian Stamp Seals in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Christopher J Brunner
(This title was originally published in 1978/79.)
(This title was originally published in 1993/94.)
The Cesnola Collection of antiquities from Cyprus preserves the island's artistic traditions from prehistoric through Roman times and represents the first large group of ancient Mediterranean works to enter the museum's collection. This catalogue, which focuses on Cypriot glass, contains over 500 works dating from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Byzantine period (ca. 1500 B.C.-ca. A.D. 625) from one of the most comprehensive collections of Cypriot art in the world. Illustrations of each object...
Beverley Minster is one of the most spectacular and impressive of English non-cathedral churches. It owes its origins to the Saxon St John of Beverley, who is buried here, though most of what we see today dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, when Beverley was one of the largest and wealthiest towns in England and the Minster was a major pilgrimage centre. Despite a long building programme, the church was constructed in a consistent architectural style which gives the interior, in parti...
A hundred years after the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the Museum Fünf Kontinente is showing the special exhibition In trockenen Tüchern! Gewebtes und Besticktes aus dem Osmanischen Reich [A Stitch in Time! Woven and Embroidered Textiles from the Ottoman Empire]. The accompanying publication provides an insight into the different aspects of inhabitants’ life during the Late Ottoman Empire, based on selected textiles and everyday items from the collections of the Museum Fünf Kontinente as well as...
The Grosvenor School of Modern Art was founded by the influential teacher, painter and wood-engraver, Iain McNab, in 1925. Situated in London’s Pimlico district the school played a key role in the story of modern British printmaking between the wars. The Grosvenor School artists received critical acclaim in their time that continued until the late 1930s under the influence of Claude Flight who pioneered a revolutionary method of making the simple linocut to dynamic and colourful effect. Cyril Po...
Heart's Desire: The Darnley Jewel and the Human Body (The Watson Gordon Lecture)
by Cynthia Hahn
The Darnley jewel, a masterpiece of the goldsmith's art on display at Edinburgh's Holyrood Palace, has been deemed a love token, but has also been labelled an emblem of political ambition. Taking the shape of a heart, the jewel was produced at a moment (1565-75) when such objects worn by courtiers were a primary means of asserting status and proclaiming allegiances. With a deep medieval history - originally the fleshly power centre of the human body, the seat of the soul, and place of memory and...
This Tiny Folio takes readers on a fascinating tour of New York City history - from the land of the Lenape to today's metropolis - as illustrated by some 250 diverse items from the incomparable collections of the Museum of the City of New York. These include paintings, photographs, drawings, manuscripts, decorative arts and fashion, and unique artefacts such as a lock of George Washington's hair, 'Boss' Tweed's tiger-headed cane, and the famous Stettheimer Dollhouse, adorned with miniatur...
(This title was originally published in 1987/88.)
(This title was originally published in 1980/81.)
Peter Carl Faberge, born in St Petersburg in 1846, has been called the greatest craftsman in the age of craftsman and is unanimously regarded as the owner of the largest jewelry ever to have operated anywhere on earth! This book is an extraordinary collection of work."
(This book was originally published in 1976/77.)
Masterworks of the Musee de l'Orangerie
by Marie-Paul Vial and Marie-Madeleine Masse
The catalogue of the Musee de l Orangerie features the totality of works from the collection of Jean Walter and Paul Guillaume on display in that museum. The collection was assembled by the art dealer Paul Guillaume between 1912 and 1934 and was subsequently reorganized by his widow and her second husband, Jean Walter. It includes works by Cezanne, Derain, Laurencin, Renoir, Picasso, Matisse, Modigliani, Monet, Rousseau, Soutine, Utrillo and others. This richly illustrated catalogue is a testam...