History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patro...

Owen Jones (18091874), a prolific architect, designer, illustrator and printer, was recognised during his lifetime as one of the most influential c...

When was art's first kiss? Who painted the first ever smile and the first self-portrait? When did Western art first depict a Black person or approa...

Filled with glorious full-color paintings and prints, this is a visually stunning exploration of life during Singapore's first century. Featuring a...

A landmark publication tracing the final months of Van Goghs life. Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise: His Final Months offers a unique and impressive ov...

Handsomely illustrated Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide The book is a resounding success a valuable guide to laypeople, students and scholars on ...

This is the first book to address the long art history of dynastic marriage exchange between Denmark and Britain between 1600 and 1900. It explores...

Celebrated around the world as a literary monument, The Divine Comedy, completed in 1321 and written by Dante Alighieri (12651321), is widely consi...

Founded in the 1880s as a response to the art worlds elitist obsession with painted and sculptural arts, New Art quickly found ethusiastic support....

Rich and delicate, ethereal and muscular, the art of William Blake is as fascinating as the philosophies threading through his poetry and prophetic...

Monet's famous painting Impression: Sunrise, Le Havre represented the most innovative - and later most popular - art movement the world had ever se...

Mackintosh is a celebration of the extraordinary career of one of the most intriguing and influential artists of his time, Charles Rennie Mackintos...

Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine art, the covers are prin...

'For as I look deeper into the mirror, I find myself a more curious person than I had thought.' John Ruskin (1819-1900) was a towering figure of t...

Thousands of books and articles have been written about the Battle of Gettysburg. Almost every topic has been thoroughly scrutinized except one: Pa...

No group of artists or period of art history has inspired as much fascination and admiration as the Impressionist school. This book tells the story...

As a little boy of seven or eight, Jacques Henri Lartigue was given his first camera, and soon was developing his own photographs. Born into a pros...

The Great American Hall of Wonders is a vividly illustrated survey of the American ingenuity that energised all aspects of 19th-century society, fr...

This book reveals a great untold story of enterprise and innovation based on the relationship between the Victoria and Albert Museum, and Elkington...

A visually stunning book devoted to the radical Rossetti generation. The Rossettis approach to art, love and lifestyles are considered revolutionar...

Gustav Klimt, well known for his sensual, arresting depictions of women (The Kiss, Fulfillment, The Tree of Life), was a founder of the Viennese Se...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880-81) portrays an informal gathering of real people he knew: fellow artis...

Our Mini Notebooks are full colour, hardcover, pocket sized books featuring dip dyed accents on the edges of the paper. The paper is lightly printe...

Beginning with the early history of Londons Vauxhall pleasure gardens, this volume surveys visionary architecture and urban planning from the 18th ...

When a poet or artist is truly able to capture, in words or pictures, mans fight for mastery of the sea, he may be counted by those who fully appre...

This glorious gift book presents Van Goghs lifelong love affair with the garden. Illustrated with an extraordinary range of works, from iconic oils...

At the dawn of the 19th-century, the Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt was granted permission to charter an expedition to Spains colonies in...

Arthur Melville was arguably the most innovative and modernist Scottish artist of his generation and one of the finest British watercolourists of t...

Egon Schiele left an enormous artistic legacy that is all the more powerful for the brevity of his career. Isabel Kuhls lively text follows Schiele...

A perfect gift for art lovers or anyone interested in Impressionism, this collection of 365 pictures gathers the best of the genres masterpieces fr...

Inspired by Paul Gauguin in the last decade of the nineteenth century, the Nabis saw themselves as prophets of a new art. This vibrant illustrated ...

In the wake of Bonaparte''s Egyptian Campaign, artists of the nineteenth century became fascinated by the Orient and, most particularly, the harems...

This enthralling and comprehensive new book on Henri Matisse is an eye-opener for all students and art lovers interested in early twentieth-century...

Raden Saleh and Juan Luna's agile navigation of these competing positions resulted in dramatic paintings that have been read as allegories of anti-...

This beautiful book brings you the very best of art throughout history - using a truly innovative timeline-led approach. Savour iconic paintings su...

Radical and inspiring ... Yanagi's vision puts the connection between heart and hand before the transient and commercial - Edmund de WaalThe daily ...