Painting & Paintings

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWe have lost touch with nature, rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and the...

Giorgio Vasaris The Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1568) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental asse...

Immerse yourself in the rich shades and textures of Tiziano Vecellio (c. 14881576), commonly known as Titian, and the figurehead of 16th-century Ve...

Bringing the life and work of a truly unique artist to life, Van Gogh is a comprehensive guide to one of the most unconventional and highly origina...

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti ...

Though numbering just 35 known works, the uvre of Johannes Vermeer (16321675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in ar...

In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (18841920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His langu...

With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro...

A historic publishing event! For the first time ever, all 3,022 paintings from the world's most popular museum are collected into a striking, slipc...

'What makes some pictures a masterpiece? Who better to explain than our greatest living artist, as he teams up with art critic Martin Gayford to op...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

Bringing to life the gorgeous, inspiring art of Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro and their group, Impressionists takes the reader back to Nineteenth ...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

Although fewer than eighty of Caravaggio's painted works exist, they represent a critical moment in the development of European painting as the Ren...

Lucian Freud (19222011) was interested in the telling of truths. Always operating outside the main currents of 20th-century art, the esteemed portr...

This modern painting guide is a sourcebook for study, teaching, professional practice, and personal enrichment written and edited by league instruc...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...