Cassatt's art explores a New Woman's perspective on the spaces of modernity: at the theatre, in the drawing-room and garden, in the studio. Admired by Degas - who invited her to show with the impressionists in 1877 - Cassatt's work reveals her profound study of Old Masters and keen responses to contemporary French and Spanish painters.

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

This volume is about Netherlandish workshop practice from the late fifteenth century to the 1560s. Some articles present the results of new technical studies that are comprehensive in nature, revealing the inter-relationship between prints and painting practices, modes of collaboration, shifts in procedure, the development and use of shop models, and the impact of international commerce.

Wydawnictwo: Brepols N.V.

Leonardo da Vinci--painter, engineer, inventory, mathematician, and architect--he was a Renaissance man in the fullest sense. Over 150 color illustrations--some well known, some obscure--offer glimpses into the inner world of the man who was four centuries ahead of his time.

Wydawnictwo: Terrail

Fernand Leger (1881-1955) is one of the few Modernist artists that can be said to have anticipated both American Abstraction and American Pop, and to have made a deliberate relationship with American culture: He visited the U.S. several times, and during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1945, he lived in exile in New York.

Wydawnictwo: HATJE CANTZ

Dutch-American painter Willem de Kooning was a first generation Abstract Expressionist. Starting as an "angry young man" in the 1930s, he is best known for his Women series—a subject he pursued from the beginning to the end of his career. In the 1970s he began to make sculptures.

Wydawnictwo: SCHIRMER/MOSEL

For centuries the nude body was the highest expression of human aspiration. The nude was a vehicle to express many meanings, be they religious, classical, or literary. The Language of the Nude acknowledges the weighty significance of the nude in our world and demonstrates how art has responded to its challenges through the ages and throughout Europe.

Wydawnictwo: Lund Humphiries

"Vienna, 1900": the heart of the vast Austro-Hungarian Empire and a city populated with people from across the Imperial territories - stretching from central Europe to the Crown lands that reached far into South-eastern Europe. This was a dynamic capital brimming with economic and cultural prosperity;

Wydawnictwo: Lund Humphiries

Both an introduction to John Constable's life and a companion to the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection, this book ranges from his early years at the Royal Academy, through his relationship with fellow artist, William Turner, to his last years in Hampstead.

Wydawnictwo: V & A

John William Waterhouse (18491917) is one of the most enduringly popular of the Victorian artists, and paintings such as The Lady of Shalott, Hylas and the Nymphs and Ophelia have become icons recognized the world over.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

The Impressionists need little introduction. The names of Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Sisley, Cézanne, Monet and Renoir are familiar to everyone and their paintings remain highly popular over a hundred years after they first scandalized the Parisian art world.

Wydawnictwo: Phaidon

The changing image of Christ through the ages is traced in this account of the iconography of someone who is both God and man, human and divine, mortal and immortal. The book is produced to accompany the millennial exhibition "Seeing Salvation - the image of Christ" at the National Gallery.

Wydawnictwo: National Gallery of Art

Ideals of Beauty

Wydawnictwo: Thames & Hudson

The "Handbook of Modern British Painting and Printmaking 1900-1990" has been designed for people who enjoy, study and buy British art. A portable dictionary-style guide to the life and work of modern British painters and printmakers, the book provides information on some 2000 artists.

Wydawnictwo: Lund Humphiries

Fonsmark: Gustave Caillebotte

Wydawnictwo: HATJE CANTZ

The ambitious subject matter, versatile brushwork and daring conceptions of watercolorists William Blake, Thomas Rowlandson, J.M.W. Turner, Samuel Palmer, David Cox, James Whistler and 81 other artists enliven this magificient album. It catalogues an exhibition that opened at London's Royal Academy and soon moves to the National Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Wydawnictwo: PRESTEL

Benozzo Gozzoli (1420 -1497) was highly regarded as a painter of frescoes, and created vivid, detailed pictorial worlds. Hi rich talent for narrative was given a documentary character by the inclusion of portraits of numerous identifiable contemporaries such as his powerful clients, the important Medici merchant family.

Wydawnictwo: Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft

Buchloh: Gerhard Richter Large Abstracts

Wydawnictwo: HATJE CANTZ

This lavish art book offers a comprehensive overview of one of the most beloved and respected artists of the twentieth century.

Wydawnictwo: Harry N. Abrams

An early explorer of modern art, Paul Gauguin left France for Tahiti, where he immersed himself in Maori mythology.

Wydawnictwo: ASSOULINE