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C. R. W. Nevinson: This Cult of Violence Best Price: $36.31 C.R.W. Nevinson was one of the most important, colourful, and talked about artists of his...	Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $43.10 When we lived in England, we were constantly visiting old homes, stately mansions, and castles,...	The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $65.06 The first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture covers buildings...	The Diary of Joseph Farington: Volume 15, January 1818 - December 1819, Volume 16, January 1820 - December 1821 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) (Vol 15 & 16) Best Price: $146.38	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages: Volume 3, The Voyage of the Resolution and the Discovery, 1776-1780 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $270.32 This is a wonderful book - of particular interest to Australians of course, to whom Captain Cook...



Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 Best Price: $35.45 The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction...	Holbein and England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $59.12 In the career of Hans Holbein the younger (a recent monograph of his father, Hans Holbein...	Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $58.28 This book is a study of the history of tapestry primarily during the reign of Henry VIII. There...	Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $47.94 The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military...	Johan Zoffany, R.A.: 1733-1810 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $75.46 Universally recognized as a brilliant and gifted 18th-century artist, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810)...



Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville: Volume 47 (Survey of London) Best Price: $114.12 Clerkenwell is one of the most varied, intricate and richly historic districts of England's...	Digging and Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Volumes 1 and 2 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $74.16 This long-awaited book offers the first overview of all British-led excavation sites in and...	Survey of London: The Charterhouse Best Price: $120.62 A fully illustrated, comprehensive record of London?s medieval Charterhouse, from its foundation...	Andrew Saint'sRichard Norman Shaw (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) [Hardcover](2010) Best Price: $220.99	The Diary of Ford Madox Brown Best Price: $26.95

The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (2 Volumes) Best Price: $360.55	Architectural Colour in British Interiors, 1615-1840 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $137.21 This study of architectural colour in British interiors between 1615 and 1840 uses information...	Allan Ramsay: Painter, Essayist and Man of the Enlightenment (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $57.50 Allan Ramsay, Court painter to King George III, was one of the major portrait painters of the...	The Tyranny of Taste: The Politics of Architecture and Design in Britain, 1550-1960 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $68.56 This work by a professor of art history and architecture at the University of Essex in England...	Classical Architecture in Britain: The Heroic Age (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Classical Architecture in Britain is a detailed insight in to British architecture, commencing...

Canterbury Cathedral Priory in the Age of Becket (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $60.61 This fascinating book recounts the extensive building program that took place at Canterbury...	Interior Housepainting Colours and Technology, 1615-1840 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) This study of the techniques and materials used in early house-painting draws on English and...	Westminster Abbey and the Plantagenets: Kingship and the Representation of Power, 1200-1400 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $1,042.84 One of the great royal treasure houses of the world, Westminster Abbey is an example of English...	The Early Paintings and Drawings of John Constable: Text and Plates (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $205.74 John Constable is known for his poetic approach to nature and his use of broken colour. In this...	Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558-1625 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $320.00 The spread of the Renaissance and the onset of the Reformation gradually transformed the...

Van Dyck: A Complete Catalogue of Paintings Best Price: $169.06 Van Dyck is one of my favorite painters and I was looking forward to this updated catalogue...	The Small House in Eighteenth-Century London Best Price: $60.63 London's modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the...	Becket's Crown: Art and Imagination in Gothic England 1170-1300 (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $599.99 To appreciate England?s earliest Gothic buildings and art—the great cathedrals at Canterbury,...	From William Morris: Building Conservation and the Arts and Crafts Cult of Authenticity, 1877-1939 (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $50.75 This book takes a fresh and wide-ranging look at the origins of the architectural conservation...	Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art and Theater, 1768-1820 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $58.96 During the Georgian period there was a remarkable proliferation of seductive visual imagery and...

Richard Norman Shaw (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $52.67 Richard Norman Shaw (1831?1912) was the most fertile, representative, and influential British...	The Stained Glass of William Morris and his Circle (Studies in British Art) This 2-volume set of books is the result of over 20 years of painstaking research by A.C.Sewter....	Medieval London Houses (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $144.75 This authoritative book is the first comprehensive study of domestic buildings in London from...	James McNeill Whistler: Drawings, Pastels and Watercolours: A Catalogue Raisonne (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $129.92 Painter, etcher, draughtsman, lithographer, watercolourist, and author of critical essays and...	The Analysis of Beauty (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $44.97 Born 300 years ago in Smithfield, London, William Hogarth established himself as a central...

Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $68.80 Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745), one of his generation's foremost portrait painters, was...	The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $22.95 A collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since...	John Everett Millais: Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Best Price: $50.64 The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his...	Town Houses of Medieval Britain (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $46.82 This wide-ranging book explores in great detail British medieval houses, from humble to grand....	Those Delightful Regions of Imagination: Essays on George Romney Best Price: $24.40 This collection of writings by specialists from many disciplines explores a wide range of topics...

Collector of Genius: A Life of Sir George Beaumont (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies) Best Price: $35.00	Prospects for the Nation: Recent Essays in British Landscape, 1750-1880 (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $58.00 This fascinating book provides a picture of the changing state of British landscape studies. Art...	Painting for Money: The Visual Arts and the Public Sphere in Eighteenth-Century England (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) The author of this study considers that a distinctly modern art world emerged in 18th-century...	Humphrey Spender's Humanist Landscapes: Photo-Documents, 1932-1942 Best Price: $152.07 Working for the new illustrated weekly magazine Picture Post and for Mass Observation, a project...	Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $52.10 A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world, John Raphael Smith...

Greenwich: An Architectural History of the Royal Hospital for Seamen and the Queen's House Best Price: $64.26 This volume, based on detailed documentary work and a site survey by the Royal Commission of the...	The Geographies of Englishness: Landscape and the National Past, 1880 - 1940 Best Price: $55.99 In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, the notion of "Englishness" was widely...	Rubens and England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $21.50 This book was fascinating, brilliant, stimulating. And also wonderfully readable and accessible....	A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $113.42 This remarkable dictionary provides information on the work of over 3,000 sculptors working in...	Nineteenth-Century Irish Sculpture: Native Genius Reaffirmed (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $60.59 Paula Murphy, the leading expert on Irish sculpture, offers an extensive survey of the history...

Science and the Perception of Nature: British Landscape Art in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $59.38 In this beautifully illustrated volume of only 208 pages, Klonk attains her goal of showing how...	The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $31.58 While the reproductions in the book are numerous and very fine, I would have liked to see more...	The Spectacle of Difference: Graphic Satire in the Age of Hogarth (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $64.24 This is an excellent book on English history and the print trade during Hogarth's era-early...	Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $55.00 A timely and convincing re-evaluation of an unfairly reviled Victorian master. Barringer and...	Ford Madox Brown: A Catalogue Raisonne (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $141.97 Ford Madox Brown (1821?1893) is known predominantly for his close association with the...

William Mulready (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $94.97	The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner: Revised Edition (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $285.77	The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460-1547 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $139.98 I recently purchased this book for a number of reasons. I was searching for a source of research...	A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840: Third Edition (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $124.97 This reference on the history of British architecture contains biographical information on some...	New Art New World: British Art in Postwar Society (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) An analysis of visual art in Britain in the post war era, placing it in its political and social...

The Cosmopolitan Interior: Liberalism and the British Home, 1870-1914 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $66.85 Except to a social historian, the idea that a political movement could influence the interior...	The Diary of Joseph Farington: Volume 9, January 1808 - June 1809, Volume 10, July 1809 - December 1810 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) (Vol 9 & 10) Best Price: $146.42	The Romantic Interior: The British Collector at Home, 1750-1850 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $175.60	The Discovery of Painting: The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England, 1680-1768 (Yale Center for British Art -Studies in British Art) Best Price: $156.33 Before 1680, the English were largely uninterested in painting, but in the decades that followed...	The Age of Caricature: Satirical Prints in the Reign of George III (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $47.50 The late eighteenth century in England was the first great age of cartooning, and English...

Discourses on Art: New edition (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $26.50 I bought this book to better understand 17th and 18th Century British landscape painting and the...	Rievaulx Abbey: Community, Architecture, Memory (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $125.00 In Rievaulx Abbey, the authors have given us a splendid portrayal of life in the Cistercian...	Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art Best Price: $80.00 As early as the sixteenth century, drawing in England came to be seen as something more than an...	Allan Ramsay: A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $100.00 Over 600 portraits are catalogued in detail. Each is illustrated in black and white in...	Seductive Surfaces: The Art of Tissot (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $59.22 Engaging, sophisticated, and witty, French-born artist James Joseph Tissot (1836-1902) painted...

C. R. W. Nevinson: This Cult of Violence Best Price: $36.31 C.R.W. Nevinson was one of the most important, colourful, and talked about artists of his...	Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $43.10 When we lived in England, we were constantly visiting old homes, stately mansions, and castles,...	The Architecture of the Scottish Medieval Church, 1100-1560 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $65.06 The first in-depth survey of Scotland's medieval church architecture covers buildings...	The Diary of Joseph Farington: Volume 15, January 1818 - December 1819, Volume 16, January 1820 - December 1821 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) (Vol 15 & 16) Best Price: $146.38	The Art of Captain Cook's Voyages: Volume 3, The Voyage of the Resolution and the Discovery, 1776-1780 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $270.32 This is a wonderful book - of particular interest to Australians of course, to whom Captain Cook...

Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 Best Price: $35.45 The late-17th and 18th centuries represent a golden age in terms of the design and construction...	Holbein and England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $59.12 In the career of Hans Holbein the younger (a recent monograph of his father, Hans Holbein...	Henry VIII and the Art of Majesty: Tapestries at the Tudor Court (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $58.28 This book is a study of the history of tapestry primarily during the reign of Henry VIII. There...	Above the Battlefield: Modernism and the Peace Movement in Britain, 1900-1918 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $47.94 The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military...	Johan Zoffany, R.A.: 1733-1810 (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $75.46 Universally recognized as a brilliant and gifted 18th-century artist, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810)...

Decorating the 'Godly' Household: Religious Art in Post-Reformation Britain (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $57.85 The Reformation is generally regarded as a calamitous episode in the history of British art,...	The New Sculpture (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis)	Albion's Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550-1660 (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $50.00 These essays show how unpredictable attitudes to classical art turn out to be in Britain during...	The English Print, 1688-1802 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $495.00 Before the invention of photography, prints were the principal means for reproducing and...	The Albert Memorial: The Prince Consort National Memorial: its History, Contexts, and Conservation (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $5.67 A study of the Albert Memorial. It tells the history, discusses the symbolism, and gives an...

Discourses on Art: New edition (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) This standard edition of the "Discourses on art" delivered by Sir Joshua Reynolds is...	Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $294.84 England in the 18th century possessed a thriving portrait culture which was part of a network of...	John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s Best Price: $55.96 I have purchased "Portraits of the 1890s" primarily for the images and I have to say...	Patronage, Culture and Power: The Early Cecils Best Price: $44.95 The Cecils were the dominant noble family in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. William, Lord...	Mother Stone: The Vitality of Modern British Sculpture (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $39.41 In Mother Stone Anne Middleton Wagner looks anew at the carvings of the first generation of...

Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century Best Price: $54.41 In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of...	The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, Second edition Best Price: $69.12 Allen Staley's book The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape ignited a revival of interest in...	Whistler's Venice (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) Best Price: $145.95 This is a really wonderful book and very helpful for everyone who knows and loves Venice. I...	The Post-War University: Utopianist Campus and College Best Price: $28.38 This book covers a great deal of information that is essentially architectural theory for the...	Georgian London Best Price: $16.57 In this classic of English architectural history, John Summerson provides an account of a major...

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House 1780-1836 On 1 May 1780, England's Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the...	William Nicholson (The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $37.92 This book is long overdue as is a reapprasal of Nicholson's work. This book provides the...	The Stranger from Paradise: A Biography of William Blake (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $86.00 This is a very comprehensive biography, going into every known detail, which makes it a bit...	G. F. Watts: The Last Great Victorian (Studies in British Art) Best Price: $59.95 George Frederic Watts (1817–1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The...	Brilliant Effects: A Cultural History of Gem Stones and Jewellery (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) Best Price: $60.64 In a broad-ranging and exceptional work of cultural and art history, Marcia Pointon explores...

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