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An account of the invention of soft power and the bucket list destination, through Alexander VII and Bernini's creation of Baroque Rome

The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape forever. A witty, elegant, opinionated pilgrimage of taste.

Texts by and about the pioneering woman artist of the Baroque, Artemisia Gentileschi, some printed for the first time in English.

Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studies Wordsworth's poetry to understand more fully this deeply private and often enigmatic personality, and it observes the artist's life to better grasp the meaning of the deceptively immediate verses which conceal many layers of meaning.

Witty, urbane insights on life, art, and culture from Aubrey Beardsley, illustrated with selected drawings from his Grotesques series.

In his day, John Ruskin was revered as an art critic - champion of Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites - as well as an artist, educator and campaigner. However, by the mid-20th century, his message was relegated to the footnotes of debate. The Ruskin Revival: 1969-2019 celebrates the world's welcome re-engagement with his radical worldview.

William Blake (1757-1827), hailed as 'the glorious luminary' by William Rossetti, is one of the great mystics in the history of Western art. This volume brings together some of the most illuminating writings by people who knew Blake, and brings this astonishing visionary to life

- Richard Suart's celebration of English National Opera's iconic Jonathan Miller production of The Mikado, which has run worldwide for over 35 years, with excellent color photography"The audience should feel as they come out of this show that they have over-eaten an enormous cream meringue". Jonathan Miller's ambition was completely successful, and his Mikado has been revived umpteen times in London and played in LA, Houston, New York and Venice. It brought together some of the finest stage talents of its time, and revolutionized Gilbert and Sullivan. Richard Suart, iconic incarnation of KoKo, Lord High Executioner, celebrates this landmark production in all its variations over the years, with his unmistakeable wit and humor, and deep understanding of the stagecraft of opera and the history of G&S. Over 200 photographs take the reader on a unique journey into the heart of a theatrical masterpiece.

William Hogarth's pithy autobiography and writings on his own art - hitherto virtually unobtainable.

Who was John Ruskin? What did he achieve - and how?Where is he today? One possible answer: almost everywhere.

Two essays remembering Degas by the most acute observers of the avant-garde art of their time, Walter Sickert and George Moore. Introduced by Professor Anna Gruezner Robins, a leading expert on Degas and his British admirers

For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessentialRenaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci wasa painter, architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor,anatomist, geometer, naturalist, poet and musician.

The most exhilarating painter of the Renaissance and arguablyof the whole of western art, Tintoretto was known as Il Furiosobecause of the attack and energy of his style.

Titian was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting.

Aidan Dodson's British Royal Tombs covers all the burials of the kings, queens (and lords protector) of England, Scotland and the United Kingdom, from the occupant of the great Sutton Hoo ship burial, to George VI, last Emperor of India, including of course the long-lost Richard III.

One of the best-loved painters in English history, ThomasGainsborough (1727-1788) was also one of the mostpersonally engaging. Bon vivant, wit, amateur and enthusiasticmusician, he charmed sitters and friends alike. His ebullient,if not always reliable, personality comes to life in these twomemoirs, written by two very different friends.

The autobiography that Rossini never got round to writing

Presents a collection of two of the most important biographies on the artist Diego Velazquez. Diego Velazquez (1599-1660) is for many the greatest painter ever to have lived. His astonishing naturalism had an immediate and lasting impact on his contemporaries, inspiring both awe and fierce debate.

Ovid's matchless love poems in a glittering translation by the young Christopher Marlowe and illustrated by Rodin

This volume brings together the groundbreaking criticism of Emile Zola, from his vigorous defence of the iconoclastic young painter to the memorial essay written after Manet's untimely death. A new introduction by Robert Lethbridge sets Zola's essays in the context of Manet's career and his relationship with the writer. 49 pages of illustrations

What were Montmartre and Montparnasse really like in their hey-day roughtly between 1904, when the youthful Picasso had just arrived on the Hill of Martyrs, and 1920, when Amedeo Modigliani , justly called `the prince of Bohemians', died of consumption and dissipation in Montparnasse?

Jim Dearden's latest book, A John Ruskin Collection, brings together a lifetime's worth of articles on the lives of John Ruskin and those around him

This elegant and concise introduction to the baroque and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, not long before Blunt died, and represents a summation of his teaching. It is republished here separately, copiously illustrated with contemporary engraved views and measured drawings.

Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. This book draws a picture of Michelangelo - the man and the artist. It features 45 pages of colour illustrations covering his achievement, and more.

What is Venice worth? To whom does this urban treasurebelong? This eloquent book by the internationally renownedart historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions,igniting a new debate about the Pearl of the Adriatic andcultural patrimony at large.

Marzena Pogorzaly made two trips to Havana. There, she walked the streets of Havana Vieja and El Centro, the old districts, trying to capture the melancholy beauty and decay of the city, and its inhabitants.

Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguablythe greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. Hisastonishing naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting andis still a source of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice willconfirm.

The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled. Witty, profound and endlessly entertaining. Drawing on French, Italian, Spanish, English and American sources, many hitherto neglected, Ronald Ridley has compiled an endlessly vivid and thought-provoking collage-portrait of Rome.