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ISBN: 9780810956193

ListPrice: $60.00

Edition: First Edition

Summary: The National Gallery of Art in our nation's capital houses one of the foremost collections of European and American painting in the world, covering more than seven centuries of art-from Byzantine to contemporary-and numbering more than 3,000 works. This sumptuous volume gathers together some of the greatest art in the world, nearly 400 masterworks of the collection, from Leonardo da Vinci's "Ginevra de' Benci" to Jackson Pollock's magisterial "Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist) ". The model for this volume is John Walker's National Gallery of Art, Washington (1984), hailed in its time as a landmark publication. The new book features stunning reproductions and enlightening commentary by John Hand for a new selection of works, including acquisitions of the past 20 years by artists such as Cézanne, Degas, Matisse, Newman, Rothko, and Van Gogh. Shown together with the masterpieces from the Gallery's core collections-by Botticelli, Corot, Giotto, Goya, Homer, Manet, Picasso, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renoir, Rubens, Titian, Van Eyck, Vermeer, and many others-the entire group testifies to the growth and remarkable quality of the nation's art collection. AUTHOR BIO: John Oliver Hand is curator of northern Renaissance paintings at the National Gallery of Art. Earl A. Powell III is the director of the National Gallery of Art.

ISBN: B000COH0AC

ListPrice: $224.94

Edition: Collector's Edition

Summary: LEATHER BOUND book accented in 22kt gold! Renoir's luminous artwork is magnificently presented in this oversized volume. With 600 full-color reproductions and fascinating text, this is a stellar retrospective.

ISBN: 0691004188

ListPrice: $90.00

Edition: First Edition

Summary: A Sorbonne professor and curator of a Delacroix exhibit at the Bibliothèque Nationale gives readers a new, lucid, and well-illustrated study of this painter--a familiar name who is still not widely understood or popular. Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863), so very much tied to the history of his time, created vast canvases using that history as allegory. Therefore, he must suffer in appreciation today, when so few museumgoers have the cultural baggage they possessed a century and a half ago. So, huge canvases like "The Death of Sardanapalus" and "The Murder of the Bishop of Liege" must mean less to contemporary viewers, just as another painting, "Tasso in the Hospital of Saint Anna", was more meaningful to a viewing public who had actually read the work of Torquato Tasso, author of "Gerusalemme Liberata". However, the good reproductions in this book and Barthelmy Jobert's cogent analyses go far to underline Delacroix's inspiration from previous artists like Michelangelo, and his strong grasp of architecture. Princeton University Press has done a good production job on this title, although they are scandalously scant when it comes to crediting the translators, Terry Grabar and Alexandra Bonfante-Warren (who did a clear job of translating from the original French, but are mentioned only in minuscule print on the copyright page). Even the author must have considered this unchivalrous, for he thanked the translators in his own fine-print acknowledgements at the end of the book. Apart from this detail, Jobert's "Delacroix" in English is a bravura effort and a very welcome and attractive addition to any bookshelf of 19th-century European art. "--Benjamin Ivry"

ISBN: 0810915936

ListPrice: $24.95

Edition: Collectors Ed

Summary: Another title from The Crown Art Library, the most useful monographs available on a wide range of significant artists. Each volume is written by an internationally recognized authority and is generously illustrated with full-color reproductions of the artist's paintings and two-color reproductions of sketches and line drawings.