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Orientalism in Art by Christine Peltre Publisher Comments The romance and exoticism of the Orient, as captured by 19th-century European and American painters, are brought to life in this important volume. Nineteenth-century Europe was fascinated by the Orient. Napoleon's Egyptian campaign of 1798 initiated... (read more) List Price $95.00 Your price: $41.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Victorian Painting by Julian Treuherz Synopsis The personalities and careers of Victorian artists, and their social and intellectual context, are explored in this account which aims to reveal how they blended foreign influence with the native British tradition. Artists include the Pre-Raphaelites... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments The MacArthur Fellowship recipient author of Virgin Time describes her fascination with a Matisse painting during her post-college years, which prompted intricate meditations on the painting's symbolism as well as her own international travels.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Exposed: The Victorian Nude by Alison Smith Publisher Comments The epitome of high culture or an assault on public morality? The nude figure was one of the most controversial issues in Victorian art. It was also one of the most conspicuous categories for the visual image at every level, from elite paintings for the... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Seventeenth Century Art and Architecture (04 Edition) by Ann Sutherland Harris Publisher Comments Written by a leading scholar, this new survey of seventeenth-century art survey text focuses on the major artists and architects of the period such as Caravaggio, Bernini, Rubens, Van Dyck, Velazquez, and Rembrandt. Unique in its focus on just the... (read more) List Price $82.00 Your price: $39.00 Used - Hardcover
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Romanticism and Its Discontents by Anita Brookner Publisher Comments A brilliant reassessment of French Romantic painting by a noted art historian and Booker Prize winner In Romanticism and Its Discontents, Booker Prize-winning novelist and celebrated art historian Anita Brookner offers a stunning reassessment of the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Romanticism (Icon Editions) by Hugh Honour Publisher Comments 'This stylish and erudite thematic study of the influence Romanticism exerts upon Western culture and particularly the visual arts is the companion volume to Honour's equally valuable New-classicism.... The text is supported by a useful selection of... (read more) List Price $48.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Symbolism by Norbert Wolf Synopsis The year 1884 saw the appearance in Paris of a fin de sicle cult novel that was celebrated as an altogether perverse sensation on the European cultural scene. The title of the book was A Rebours (translated both as Against the Grain and Against Nature... (read more) Your price: $9.99 Sale - Flexible
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Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art: Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum by Ruud Priem Synopsis The 17th-century in the Netherlands is known as the Golden Age of Dutch art, and the art produced during that period is among the most popular in history. During this time, the Dutch Republic reached unprecedented power. Banking and the first truly... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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Icons of the 16th Century by Rose Marie Hagen Synopsis This text offers important works from the greatest masters of 16th century painting, including: Raphael, Bruegel, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Titian, El Greco, and Veronese.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $3.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Orient in Western Art (Art) by H. F. Ullman Publisher Comments The orient and the mystical images it evokes have always been a special source of inspiration in the history of european painting. From the Venetian portrayal of the Renaissance and the first examples of Turkish Fashion to the heyday of the 19th century... (read more) Your price: $24.99 New - Trade Paper
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A Romance with the Landscape: Realism to Impressionism by Janie Welker Publisher Comments Nineteenth-century France produced a cadre of artists whose first impulse was to escape the turmoil of Paris and seek refuge in the countryside, where they created an art grounded in their fresh responses to the natural world. Such artists as Charles... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move by John Plotz Publisher Comments What fueled the Victorian passion for hair-jewelry and memorial rings? When would an everyday object metamorphose from commodity to precious relic? In Portable Property, John Plotz examines the new role played by portable objects in persuading Victorian... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Rule Britannia!: Art, Royalty & Power in the Age of Jamestown (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts) by Richard Ormond Publisher Comments The British monarchy's abiding connection to the sea during the age of exploration was a critical factor in the establishment of Britain's first colonies in the New World. It is unsurprising, then, that, alongside grand portraiture, a strong tradition of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blue Arabesque: A Search for the Sublime by Patricia Hampl Publisher Comments Hampl explores the allure of a painting by Matisse, featuring a lounging woman immersed in leisure, so at odds with the rush of the modern era. Returning always to his portraits of languid women, she discovers they were not decorative indulgences but... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $3.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Museum Studies #32: Old Masters at the Art Institute of Chicago by Larry J Feinberg Publisher Comments This issue of "Museum Studies" focuses on the Art Institute of Chicago's impressive collection of Old Master paintings, works on paper, textiles, tapestries, and sculptures. With an introduction by Larry J. Feinberg on the growth and evolution of the... (read more) List Price $20.50 Your price: $8.05 Sale - Trade Paper
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Ralph Earl: The Face of the Young Republic by Elizabet Kornhauser Publisher Comments The Athenaeum in Hartford, Connecticut, possesses one of America's finest collections of Italian and Spanish paintings, especially unparalleled works of the 17th and 18th centuries, including masterpieces by Piero di Cosimo, Sebastiano del Piombo... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900 by Peter Parshall Synopsis For many today, the art of the late nineteenth century is dominated by Impressionism and Post-impressionism. By explicating a range of highly engaging, often mysterious and beautiful prints, drawings and small sculptures, The Darker Side of Light evokes... (read more) Your price: $70.00 New - Hardcover
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Arts of the 19TH Century Volume 2 1850 1905 by Francoise Cachin Publisher Comments The second half of the 19th century was a period of rapid change. This era of optimistic industrial achievement and scientific invention inspired new and diverse artistic movements, and saw the dawn of the skyscraper, the automobile, and the cinema. This... (read more) List Price $195.00 Your price: $49.95 Used - Hardcover
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European Art of the Seventeenth Century by Rosa Giorgi Publisher Comments This volume presents the most noteworthy concepts, artists, and cultural centers of the seventeenth century through a close examination of many of its greatest paintings, sculptures, and buildings. The Baroque, rooted in classicism but with a new... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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