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How to try to understand Jusepe de Ribera's many scenes of violence
The Spanish artist’s extraordinary paintings of tortured bodies and tormented souls
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How the Mexican Stridentist movement tried to build a national identity following the Civil War
Art and social action after the Mexican Revolution
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The architectural and imaginative influence of the Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock in Western building styles
This book accounts for building histories, designs and geographical spread of church inspired by the Jerusalem prototypes
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Southeast Asian illuminated manuscripts
Book looks at Thai and Burmese historic texts from the British Library
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Book delves into the Rothschild collection of bizarre objects associated with death and dying
The collection was assembled by baroness Henri de Rothschild
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First book on art collection of the draughtsman and cult figure Edward Gorey
Gorey inexplicably left his collection to the Wadsworth Atheneum
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Philippe Costamagna’s combination of autobiography, anecdote and single discovery told in his own words
The memoirs of the Pontormo expert and director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio
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Sidney Knafel's collection of French 16th- to 18th-century faïence promised to the Frick Collection
The collector's collection of 75 magnificent pieces
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Renaissance prints as sources of images for maiolica and bronze reliefs
The interactions of Renaissance drawing, printing and ceramics
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The influence of Klimt in Central European art after the First World War
The adaptations and expansions of the Austrian painter in the nations of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire
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What books in paintings mean
The significance of books in works of art
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Caucasian collecting: the Bodleian Library’s Georgian papers, books and medieval manuscripts
The collection amassed by Sir Oliver and Marjory Wardrop