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Photography, Asian art, the art of antiquity, Old Masters, and historiography are also among the topics covered
The Art Newspaper reviews contemporary scholarship on vase-painting, architectural orders and The Parthenon
The Art Gallery of New South Wales plays host to her new show
Ancient art/15th-21st century/Art history/Architectural and garden history/Asian art/Decorative arts, design/Museum catalogues, guide books/Photography/Fiction
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As Unesco celebrates the 30th anniversary of the World Heritage Convention, this book analyses the effects of its policies in developing countries
A well-written history of art in North America for students
Book Review: Whose Pharaohs?
John Richardson’s insights into the great artists and collectors of the last century
How Islamic decorative arts influenced 15th- and 16th-century Western artists
Attic attitudes
Renée Baigell and Matthew Baigell's book reviewed
An uncritical, adoring treatment of the artist has not served him well
A landmark account of George IV’s decorations and furnishings at Windsor Castle, by Hugh Roberts, who was closely involved in the restoration of many of those interiors following the 1992 fire
The socio-political aspects of the debates about figurative art that raged after World War II are explored in James Hyman's new book
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness of the museum’s collections
The book that accompanies the newly opened British galleries at the Victoria and Albert Museum reveals the extraordinary richness and diversity of the museum’s collections
Nudes with Phaidon and Tate, painted ladies with HarperCollins and the National Portrait Gallery going abroad with Thames & Hudson, Ashgate, Lawrence King, the British Museum and Cambridge University Press
Something for everyone: “animalcules”, Baltic art, the Cecils, CD-Roms, Cézanne, Chinese furniture, Clement Greenberg decadence, Holbein, Japanese design, Kahn, Leonardo, Millais, Modernism, Palladio, Tiffany silver, terracotta sculpture
From Dürer to digital beauties
Francis Bacon’s studio (Thames & Hudson, London, 2001), 129 pp, 60 col. ills £14.95 (hb) ISBN 0500510342.
Who was the real Leonardo da Vinci?
The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing
The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work
New technology does not change anything except the context of art
A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book
Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons
The publication of a new monograph on Caspar David Friedrich neatly coincides with the opening of the National Gallery’s exhibition of 19th-century German paintings on loan from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin