Edward Norgate

Edward Norgate

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Edward Norgate, aristocratic friend of Charles I and the Earl of Arundel, made his mark in seventeenth-century England as musician, herald, and courti... Lees meer

Discourses on Art

Joshua Reynolds

• Paperback | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• The 'Discourses on Art' of Sir Joshua Reynolds form one of the most eloquent literary documents in the history of European art. Composed as lectures t... Lees meer

City of Gold and Mud

Nancy Rose Marshall

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• London was the quintessential modern city of the 19th century, and its artists were the first to rise to the challenge of depicting the many facets of... Lees meer

Town Houses of Medieval Britain

Anthony Quiney

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• This uniquely wide-ranging book explores British medieval houses, from humble to grand, in greater detail than ever before. Anthony Quiney synthesizes... Lees meer

Ireland and the Picturesque

Finola O'Kane

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted, and manipulated during the lo... Lees meer

English Vernacular Furniture, 1750-1900

Christopher Gilbert

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• The vernacular furniture used by ordinary people has only recently been considered a subject worthy of study. In this magisterial book--the first comp... Lees meer

Copper Into Gold

Ellen G D´oench

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world, John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific printmaker of his time... Lees meer

Rediscovering Architecture

Sigrid de Jong

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture ups... Lees meer

The Marble Index

Malcolm Baker

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Providing the first thorough study of sculptural portraiture in 18th-century Britain, this important book challenges both the idea that portrait neces... Lees meer

The Image of Antiquity

Sam Smiles

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• How was the remote past of Britain imagined in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? What part did the visual arts play in that process? In this bo... Lees meer

French Art in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Edward Morris

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• During the nineteenth century, what had been British hostility toward French art shifted toward acceptance and even enthusiasm, a change that transfor... Lees meer

Imperial London

M H Port

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• This important book tells the story of the public buildings erected in London during the period when that city served as the capital of a worldwide em... Lees meer

The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages

Rudiger Joppien, Rüdiger Joppien, Bernard Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Captain James Cook's three voyages of exploration to the Pacific between 1768 and 1780 were the first of the great European voyages of discovery to ca... Lees meer

A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840

Howard Colvin

• Paperback | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• This authoritative and now classic work of reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some 2,000 architects... Lees meer

Durham Cathedral

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 inter... Lees meer

The Arts of Industry in the Age of Enlightenment

Celina Fox

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• During the 18th century, the arts of industry encompassed both liberal and mechanical realms--not simply the representation of work in the fine art of... Lees meer

Constructed Abstract Art in England

Alastair Grieve

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Much admired as a realist painter, English artist Victor Pasmore surprised the art world in 1948 by suddenly directing his efforts toward the making o... Lees meer

Wyndham Lewis

Paul Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
• Equally talented as a writer and painter, Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative and controversial artistic figures of twentieth-cen... Lees meer