Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach

A new collection draws attention towards a neglected part of the Surrealist's output

One is a technical and stylistic analysis; the other a cultural critique. Both are well worth a read

Tales of stoicism in the face of extreme adversity

This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting

The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series

Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition

A new study of the Surrealist painter's life and work

This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”

This substantial volume, predominantly photographic, is the comprehensive account of Joseph Beuys’s life and work

Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum

Similar in many ways, the subjects of these two biographies present contrasting styles of operation in the art market

Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe

This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired

This study is based on a close look at conservation and restoration research, a scientific examination of the artist’s technique, and new documentary evidence

Catherine E. King's book reviewed

This study maintains that Verrocchio’s “Tobias and the angel” in London is the first example of the artist’s hand

A critical look at old and new conservation and preservation techniques

Reni is in for a late twentieth-century treatment as political activist and secretly gay

The story of the Regency dilettante, eccentric and collector is told in all its scandalous detail

Christine Sitwell and Sarah Staniforth (eds), Studies in the history of painting restoration

Over twenty-five years this Anglo-American has built up a great library of early books, manuscripts and incunabula

Three books demonstrate the revival of interest in portrait miniatures and the leading role of the Victoria and Albert Museum in this field

A valuable collection of papers from a recent symposium

Restoring a pioneer of the Gothic Revival to his rightful position

The history, form and function of European ironwork

A Review of Mora's new book on photography

St Clair demands greater candour in the fallout of Lord Elgin and the Marbles' third edition, in which it was asserted that over-cleaning had irreparably damaged the marbles

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, a single curator, Mark Haworth-Booth, has developed one the four greatest collections in the world

“Do women have to be naked to get into the Met?” and other pointers on the good, the bad and the ugly of women in art