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Aubrey Beardsley - A Catalogue Raisonne by Linda Gertner Zatlin
$268.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
This is the first book to bring together the recorded works of the English artist Aubrey Beardsley. Despite his early death from tuberculosis in 1898, at the age of 25, these amount to nearly 1100 completed works of art (plus many related sketches) as well as more than 100 sketches in his letters and th ...Show more
Durham Cathedral: History, Fabric and Culture by David Brown
$172.00 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
For over a millennium, Durham has occupied a central place in English religious history, with its Norman rebuilding (1093--1133) marking it as an internationally significant masterpiece in the history of architecture. Its setting, perched on a peninsula formed by a bend in the River Wear, adds to the v ...Show more
George Frederick Bodley & the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America by Michael Hall
$112.00 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
British architect George Frederick Bodley (1827-1907) fundamentally shaped the architecture, art and design of the Anglican Church throughout England and the world; his work survives in the United States, Australia, India and Italy, as well as the United Kingdom. This important book is the first to expl ...Show more
Ham House: 400 Years of Collecting and Patronage by Christopher Rowell
$170.00 AUD
Category: Interiors | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Built in 1610 during the reign of James I and remodeled in 1637-9 by the future first Earl of Dysart, "Ham House" and its gardens have endured through centuries of English history while remaining representative of the styles and culture of the original inhabitants. It is one of the few places where Caro ...Show more
James Wyatt, 1746-1813: Architect to George III by John Martin Robinson
$99.95 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
James Wyatt (1746-1813) is widely recognized as the most celebrated and prolific English architect of the 18th century. At the start of his lengthy career, Wyatt worked on designs for the Oxford Street Pantheon's neo-Classical interior as well as Dodington, the Graeco-Roman house that served as the mode ...Show more
John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes 1908-1913: The Complete Paintings: Volume VIII by Richard Ormond
$106.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
After John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) determined to curtail his internationally successful portrait practice, he had more freedom to paint where and what he wanted. Volume VIII of the John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonne transports us to the artist's most beloved locations, often with his friends and ...Show more
Magnificent Entertainments: Temporary Architecture for Georgian Festivals by Melanie Doderer-Winkler
$110.00 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
A thoroughly original study of ephemeral architecture and design, Magnificent Entertainments examines the spectacular displays created for large-scale public and private celebrations in the Georgian period. The book focuses on a number of specific occasions - including elegant country fetes, lavish gala ...Show more
Nicholas Hilliard - The Life of an Elizabethan Artist by Elizabeth Goldring
$85.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: The\Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Ser.
This illustrated biography follows Nicholas Hilliard's long and remarkable life (c. 1547-1619) from the West Country to the heart of the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts. It showcases new archival research and stunning images, many reproduced in color for the first time. Hilliard's portraits--some no lar ...Show more
Owning the Past: Why the English Collected Antique Sculpture, 1640-1840 by Ruth Guilding
$119.00 AUD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
In a lively re-examination of the British collectors who bankrupted themselves to possess antique marble statues, Owning the Past chronicles a story of pride, rivalry, snobbery, and myopic obsession with posterity and possession. Analyzing the motives the drove "Marble Mania" in England from the 17th th ...Show more
The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages by Beth Fowkes Tobin
$99.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Margaret Cavendish Bentinck, the 2nd Duchess of Portland (1715-1785), was one of the wealthiest women in 18th-century Britain. She collected fine and decorative arts (the Portland Vase was her most famous acquisition), but her great love was natural history and shells in particular. Over the course of t ...Show more
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