Painting & paintings books

Excerpt from Boucher: The Man, His Times, His Art, and His Significance, 1703 1770 For contemporary writings and...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Lawrence The earliest portraits of which there is a distinct record are those of Mr. And Mrs. (afterwards...  Read More >>

This book reveals that James Ensor did not develop his fantastic and grotesque universe of masks and skeletons out...  Read More >>

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Ideaal Voor Het Opschrijven Van Alles Waar Je Om Geeft Ook Leuk Als Kado! Wil jij graag een notitieboek met karakter?...  Read More >>

Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings by British Artists in the Possession of Sir John...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Meaning of Pictures: Six Lectures Given for Columbia University at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...  Read More >>

Excerpt from John Opie and His Circle It would be impossible here to thank all my correspondents individually: each...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting, Delivered on the Scammon Foundation at the Art...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Guide to Siena, History and Art It only remains to add that, with the ex ception of the Appendix, there...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Painting Its Rise and Progress, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Design in the United States....  Read More >>

Excerpt from Memoir of the Life of David Cox, Member of the Society of Painters in Water Colours: With Selections...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Studio, Vol. 43: February 5, 1908 The latest...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Galerie de Feu S. E. Le Cardinal Fesch, Vol. 4 of 4: Catalogue des Tableaux, des Ecoles Italiennes...  Read More >>

Provides comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, this...  Read More >>

Frank Rose has hiked the Santa Catalina Mountains of Southern Arizona for decades, logging in over a thousand days...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Essays on Art The poet had lost for a while his hold on the calm Spirit proper to all imaginative production,...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Famous European Artists Hermann grimm says, Reverence for what is great is a universal feeling. When...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Illustrating the Arms, Arts,& Literature of Italy, 1440-1630, Vol....  Read More >>

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Excerpt from A General Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Engraved Portraits Dissenting Minister in Ireland ob. 1740,...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from La Chronique des Arts Et de la Curiosite, Vol. 2: Supplement A la Gazette des Beaux-Arts; Annee 1864...  Read More >>

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Excerpt from The Gospels in Art: The Life of Christ by Great Painters From Fra Angelico to Holman Hunt, the d104...  Read More >>