Painting & Paintings

A no-nonsense trouble-shooting guide to improving watercolour and drawing techniques by artist, Trudy Friend. This book includes an introduction to...

Son of a convicted felon whose early death left the family impoverished, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827) went on to lead a staggeringly full and ...

For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon. The art historian Kenneth Clark called it 'the keys...

Martinez wrote the Discourses toward the end of his life as a well-travelled professional artist who had studied and worked in Italy and the major ...

Andrey Shabanov’s seminal reinterpretation of the Peredvizhniki is a comprehensive study that examines in-depth for the first time the organization...

Dulwich Picture Gallery in London holds one of the most remarkable permanent collections of Dutch and Flemish art in the world. Paintings by some o...

Precisely rendered to dazzle the eye with their botanical accuracy, the sumptuous arrays of fruit and flowers by Dutch painter Jan van Huysum (1682...

Celebrating one of Raphael's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, his Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn of 1505-6, from the Galleria Borghese in...

A stunning, full-color volume that examines 82 pieces in the University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's American collection and their connectio...

How did modern Chinese painters see landscape? Did they depict nature in the same way as premodern Chinese painters? What does the artistic percept...

The perfect guide for any aspiring portrait artist, this book includes recipes for more than 500 skin tones using either acrylic or oil paints. Eac...

Diego Velázquez (1599-1660), considered by many to be the greatest of Spain's great painters, spent his crucial formative years in Seville, learnin...

Have you ever had a great idea but didn’t know where to start? The rules of creativity are simple. Founder and CEO of creative network Zealous, Guy...

When and why did large-scale exhibitions of Old Master paintings begin, and how have they evolved through the centuries? In this book an eminent ar...

His pictures look curious, his figures introverted and his street scenes strangely stage-like. Jacobus Vrel records everyday life in Holland during...

Edward Norgate, aristocratic friend of Charles I and the Earl of Arundel, made his mark in seventeenth-century England as musician, herald, and cou...

A true celebration of the talent of Kerby Rosanes and his fans, this book features the most striking images from Kerby's bestselling World series.A...

"Lavin's study of the Pierro della Francesca "Flagellation" at Urbino, as befits this exquisite masterpiece, is a model of lucid and precise exposi...

In the nineteenth century, the Académie des Beaux Arts, and institution of central importance to the artistic life of France for over two hundred y...

Throughout his career, Henri Matisse used imagery as a means of engaging critically with poetry and prose by a diverse range of authors. Kathryn Br...

INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED ARTIST and best selling author Stephen Quiller shows readers how to discover their own personal "colour sense" in Color Ch...

This book addresses the recent surge of Anglo-American novels about visual art since the 2010s and interprets it as a coming of age of an old liter...