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Masters and Pupils: The Artistic Succession from Perugino to Manet 1480–1880

400 pages, hardback, 300 x 240 mm, 250 colour illustrations
PRICE: £50.00
ISBN: 9780955406324

This book is about a family tree: the line of descent that can be traced from Perugino in Italy in the fifteenth century to Edouard Manet in France in the nineteenth. It is not the usual kind of genealogy, of those connected by blood, more an ‘apostolic succession’, following the way in which art in Europe was taught, from one generation to the next, from 1480 to 1880. Read more

The Courtauld Cézannes

The Courtauld Gallery holds the finest group of works by Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) in Britain. This is the catalogue to an exhibition showing the entire collection together for the first time, marking the culmination of The Courtauld Institute of Art’s 75th anniversary. The importance of the collection lies not only in its exceptionally high quality but also in its wide range, with seminal paintings and rarely seen drawings and watercolours from the major periods of the artist’s long career. More

Renoir at the Theatre: Looking at La Loge

This book accompampanies an exhibition in celebration of The Courtauld Institute of Art's 75th anniversary which unites La Loge for the first time with Renoir's other treatments of the subject with the loge paintings by contemporaries, including Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Concentrating on the early yes of Impressionism during the 1870s, the books explores how these artists used the loge to capture the excitement and changing nature of fashionable Parisian society. More

Xanto: Pottery-painter, Poet, Man of the Renaissance

WINNER of The Art Newspaper / AXA Exhibition Catalogue Award 2007. Francesco Xanto Avelli da Rovigo was an intriguing artist who painted some of the most beautiful and fascinating ceramics produced in Renaissance Italy. With surfaces entirely painted with scenes from classical literature, Roman history or the Bible, his dishes were much sought after by the educated elite of his time, and continue to fascinate ceramics enthusiasts today... More

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