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1	Artists and Illustrators of the Old West 1850-1900 more books like this by Robert Taft add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France more books like this by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby add to wishlist In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists -Girodet, Gros, Gericault and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events and issues in faraway, colonial lands. This examination of six of these paintings argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, ... see all copies from $61.44! new only from $80.69! \| SVS
3	Napoleon more books like this by Jean F. Tulard, Christophe Pincemaille, Bernard Chevallier add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.91! \| first editions
4	Vermeer's World more books like this by Irene Netta add to wishlist Jan Vermeer (1632-1675) is widely acknowledged as one of the most important painters of the 17th century. His paintings of genre scenes and landscapes are famous throughout the world for their use of light. This volume offers an insight into the life and works of the Dutch artist. Focusing on life in Vermeer's native city, Delft, the author ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Transfer Printed Creamware and Pearlware for the American Market, 1760-1860 more books like this by David Arman, Linda Arman add to wishlist see all copies from $37.00! first editions
6	Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery more books like this by Ms. Helen A Cooper (Editor), Robin Jaffee Frank, Elisabeth Hodermarsky add to wishlist The American experience, from its colonial beginnings to the modern age, has captured the imagination of all Americans, including its artists. This richly illustrated book explores works from the renowned collections of American paintings, decorative arts, prints, and photographs at the Yale University Art Gallery and creates a vivid portrait of a ... see all copies from $25.30! new only from $48.81! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Recreating Ancient History: Episodes from the Greek and Roman Past in the Arts and Literature of the Early Modern Period more books like this by Al de Perkins, Karl Enenkel, Jan Dejong add to wishlist This work offers examples of how historians, writers, playwrights, and painters in the early modern period used ancient history as a rich field of raw material that could be used, recycled, and adapted to new needs and purposes. They focused on classical antiquity as a source from which they could recreate the past as a way of understanding and ... see all copies from $16.87! new only from $16.87!
8	Tapestry Mirror of History more books like this by F P Thomson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Subject Pictures more books like this by Martin Postle add to wishlist Sir Joshua Reynolds's subject pictures were among the most widely discussed British paintings of the eighteenth century. Today Reynolds's reputation rests principally on his portraits, his theoretical writings on art and his role as president of the Royal Academy. But while he could complete the face of a portrait-sitter in a matter of hours, his ... see all copies from $50.91! new only from $106.91! \| first editions
10	Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's Paintings of Past and more books like this by Amy Kurtz Lansing, Amy Kurtz Lansing add to wishlist This is the catalogue of an exhibition presented at the Yale University Art Gallery starting in the summer of 2005 and extending through December. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $7.95! \| SVS
11	Dugout more books like this by Terry Allen, Dana Friis-Hansen (Introduction by) add to wishlist '["Dugout"] starts to be about us ...not just about one Texas family. It's about how do we do this, deal with the darker sides of ourselves and our own histories - histories both national and personal. How do we face the repulsive rotten festering things that live inside us and somehow emerge as functioning, and maybe even better, human beings? ... see all copies from $18.27! new only from $22.18! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Picturing History more books like this by Barbara J Mitnick, Rizzoli, William Ayers (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $10.15! new only from $54.54! \| first editions
13	James Barry: The Artist as Hero more books like this by William L. Pressly, James Barry, Tate Gallery add to wishlist see all copies from $2.90! new only from $34.75! \| first editions
14	Mantegna and Painting as Historical Narrative more books like this by Jack M Greenstein add to wishlist A series of brilliant meditations on the ways in which Europeans represented non-European peoples and claimed to take possession of their lands during the Age of Discovery. "A marvellous book. It is also a compelling and a powerful one. Nothing so original has ever been written on European responses to 'The wonder of the New World.'"--Anthony ... see all copies from $24.95! new only from $47.00! \| first editions
15	La Grande Maniere: Historical and Religious Painting in France, 1700-1800 more books like this by Donald A Rosenthal add to wishlist see all copies from $4.54! new only from $55.99! \| first editions
16	Art as History: Episodes in the Culture and Politics of Nineteenth-Century Germany more books like this by Peter Paret add to wishlist Paintings and graphics, novels and poems are historical sources as well as aesthetic objects. Artists themselves become historians when they interpret the pastby painting a historical scene, for instance, or by discussing earlier times in a novel. Artists both reflect and shape their environment. These concepts underlie Peter Parets new study of ... see all copies from $6.17! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Harvest of Memories more books like this by Reiman Publications, Randy Penner, Rick Van Etten (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.95! \| signed copies
18 view cover	The Origins of Roman Historical Commemoration in the Visual Arts more books like this by Peter James Holliday add to wishlist History was an important element of Roman Republican culture, as revealed by the numerous historical accounts and panegyrics written during this period. Roman patrons also exploited the visual arts to convey messages about history whose immediacy no text could rival. In this study, Peter Holliday explores the development of Roman history painting ... see all copies from $76.18! new only from $90.82!
19 view cover	Angel in the Sun more books like this by Gerald Finley add to wishlist J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), widely known as perhaps the most eminent landscape painter of the romantic era, considered himself particularly a painter of historical landscapes. His distinctive landscapes were often enriched with symbolism and allegory that set them apart from those of his artist contemporaries and mystified his audiences. "Angel ... see all copies from $19.98! new only from $47.19! \| first editions
20 view cover	The So-Called Peleus and Thetis Sarcophagus in the Villa Albani more books like this by Frank G J M Muller add to wishlist In this iconological study, the author demonstrates the invalidity of the current interpretation of the relief on the so-called Peleus and Thetis sarcophagus in the Villa Albani in Rome, an interpretation which goes back to Winckelmann. By applying a modern art-historical method, he arives at a fundamentally new interpretation. It becomes clear ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $66.08! \| SVS
21 view cover	Mythology and History: The Great Paintings of the Prada more books like this by Rosa Lopez Torrijos add to wishlist A selection of the master paintings from the Prado. Includes Goya and Rubens. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $14.10!
22	The Valiant Hero: Benjamin West & Grand-Style History Painting more books like this by Ann U. Abrams add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $84.26!
23	History in Art more books like this by Ariane Ruskin Batterberry add to wishlist Presents art through the ages from the early Greeks and Romans to modern times. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	After the Revolution: Antoine-Jean Gros, Painting, and Propaganda Under Napoleon more books like this by David O'Brien add to wishlist Napoleon and Antoine-Jean Gros first met in 1796 in Italy, where the young French painter was working as a portraitist and attempting to recover from the upheavals of the French Revolution. The meeting changed Gros's life. Soon thereafter, he was making paintings-Napoleon Visiting the Battlefield of Eylau, Napoleon Visiting the Plague-Stricken in ... see all copies from $70.00! new only from $86.40! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Gonzaga Cycle more books like this by Jacopo Tintoretto, Alte Pinakothek (Editor), Veronika Poll-Frommel add to wishlist Alongside Titian and Veronese, Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) is one of the most highly regarded 16th century Venetian painters, yet his Gonzaga Cycle, which belongs among the finest works of this era, has not been properly appreciated until now. It was Duke Guglielmo Gonzaga who commissioned Tintoretto to paint a series of eight paintings for two ... see all copies from $26.00! new only from $149.95!

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