"Over the span of his six-decade career, Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has created a distinctively stylized vision of the modern American landscape of gas stations, highways, and industrial buildings. Incorporating text, stark typography, and commercial logos, the artist’s multivalent images both portray and interrogate the contemporary world’s relentlessly packaged environment. By placing Ruscha’s celebrated Course of Empire—a ten-painting instal ..."
"A fascinating look at the art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, revealing the crucial role he played in the development of French Impressionism One of the most forward-thinking art dealers of all time, Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922) played a crucial role in the rise of French Impressionism. This book explores how Durand-Ruel discovered, exhibited, and shaped an audience for Impressionist paintings at a time when they were not yet appreciated. Du ..."
Renaissance Florence The Art of the 1470s Postcard Book by NationalGalleryLondon Hardcover, 31 Pages, Published 1999 by The NationalGallery, London ISBN-13: 978-1-85709-286-8, ISBN: 1-85709-286-4
"From back cover: Men more muscular in body, more vigorous in action, and more ferocious in expression than any seen in the art of Western Europe for nearly a thousand years made their appearance in Florentine paintings and sculpture in the 1470s -- especially in the work of Antonio del Pollaiuolo and Andrea del Verrocchio. At the same time the representation of women -- particularly of the Virgin Mary but also of the pagan goddess Venus ..."
French Landscapes by NationalGalleryLondon Hardcover, Published 1994 by NationalGallery Publications Limited ISBN-13: 978-1-85709-053-6, ISBN: 1-85709-053-5
"This book, the catalogue of an exhibition held at the National Gallery, London, from July 1991, is the first full consideration in English of the work of Guercino, one of the greatest Italian artists of the 17th century. It focuses on 31 works by Guercino in British collections, all illustrated in colour. 1991 is the 400th anniversary of the birth of Guercino (1591-1666), the leading painter, together with Guido Reni, of the Bolognese s ..."
Heaven in Art [Thirty Masterpieces from the NationalGallery, London] by Ljiljana Ortolja-Baird, NationalGallery Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1998 by Watson-Guptill Publications ISBN-13: 978-0-8230-0334-1, ISBN: 0-8230-0334-5
People in Art (Fine Arts Oriental Book) by NationalGallery Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1998 by Watson-Guptill ISBN-13: 978-0-8230-0335-8, ISBN: 0-8230-0335-3
"Celebrate the joy of Christmas with this beautiful collection of traditional and modern carols and sheet music, illustrated with some of the finest paintings from the National Gallery, London. A detail from Jan Breughel the Elder?s The Adoration of the Kings brings warmth and life to "Once in Royal David?s City." Fra Angelica's glorious angels illustrate "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing." Boticelli?s remarkable Mystic Nativity illuminates ..."
"Titian is acknowledged as the greatest of the sixteenth-century Venetian painters, best known for his portraits, mythological pictures and religious subjects. Yet his first great achievement as a painter, schooled in the workshop of Giovanni Bellini, was to refashion the portrayal of nature in his own distinctive style by studying the work of Albrecht Durer, whose naturalistic paintings of plants, animals and landscape - for which north ..."