Painting & Paintings

William Hogarth is a house-hold name across the country, his prints hang in our pubs and leap out from our history-books. He painted the great and...

Maria Spilsbury Taylor (1776-1820) lived and worked in London and Ireland and was patronized by the Prince Regent. A painter of portraits, genre sc...

In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners, artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Shirodkar shares essential skills for ske...

Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis The work of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898–1944) occupies a key position in the broader history of the Austria...

This book reinterprets Wifredo Lam’s work with particular attention to its political implications, focusing on how these implications emerge from t...

Painting Landscapes in Watercolour is an ideal resource for the artist with a limited experience of using watercolours, who wants to develop their ...

The American artist Theresa Ferber Bernstein (1890–2002) made and exhibited her work in every decade of the twentieth century. This authoritative b...

Creating paintings with poetic resonances, sometimes with ties to specific lines of poetry, is a practice that began in China in the eleventh centu...

Filled with wit and insight, this is a fascinating tour of Venice from an artist's perspective. The city of Venice has always provided an almost ir...

Universally regarded as the father of French painting, Nicolas Poussin is arguably the greatest of all painters of that school. Yet Poussin's reput...

What if you could create any colour you wanted, from a basic palette of just 11 colours? That is what the art of colour mixing is all about. And on...

Best known for a dramatic, layered and visionary urban imagery, Richard Walker (born 1954) is a painter, printmaker and photographer. He works in a...

An indispensable guide for anyone interested in improving and developing their fantasy art figures. Fantasy artists are unlikely to use models to...

This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and D...

The recent rediscovery of Rubens’s Massacre of the Innocents (bought by Lord Thomson for £50 million in 2002) offers an important opportunity to re...

Refuge is the sixth book by Lara Gasparotto and spans four years of daily photographic practice, in the artist’s immediate environment but also muc...

Travel through time with this beautiful colouring set, featuring gorgeous scenes from iconic eras throughout history! Experience the glitter and gl...

This publication, which documents the eponymous exhibition at the Philara collection, highlights aspects of freedom, self-determination, and the ec...

The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s found...

Intense visual experiencesIn her paintings, Rebekka Steiger takes us into strange and colorful dream worlds. Sometimes flowery, sometimes eerie, he...

In this book, Aleš Debeljak offers a refreshing alternative to postmodernists such as Baudrillard, who declare the death of art conceived as yet an...

With its dramatic landscapes and rugged beauty, Alberta's Bow River valley has inspired generations of artists. The Painted Valley brings together ...

In the art of the Italian Renaissance, the subject of the Madonna with Child was chosen for pictures more frequently than any other. Raphael’s pai...

In 1951, Joan Eardley visited the coastal fishing village of Catterline in north-east Scotland for the first time. Her visit sparked a fascination ...

'The lives of the characters get entangled in this powerful read' WOMAN'S OWN'A pacy, gripping tale of secrets, love and betrayal in 1950s Cataloni...

Trompe L’Oeil Today offers a fascinating overview of the range of styles and techniques of illusionistic painting for private residences and public...

The late-Ming official Hsieh Chao-che traveled widely, spending most of his career in the provinces. His Wu-tsa-tsu (Five miscellanies) is a pricel...

In Chinese painting there is no clear desire to separate the subjective world and the objective world. Rather, there is a constant, conscious play ...

In the second half of the twentieth century, studies in Chinese painting history have been greatly aided by several major lists of Chinese artists ...

Reta Cowley came to maturity as an artist in the late 1950s and early 1960s at a time when abstraction was on the ascendant and the Regina Five and...

The Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia began in 1984 as a summer youth program with modest support from city government. Under the guidance of Jan...

V monografii vpervye rassmatrivaetsja žizn’ i naučnoe tvorčestvo prof. N. L. Okuneva (1885-1949), iskusstvoveda, specialista po vizantijskomu, drev...

Over the past decade, the integration of psychology and fine art has sparked growing academic interest among researchers of these disciplines. The ...

In Portrait of a Young Painter, the distinguished historian Mary Kay Vaughan adopts a biographical approach to understanding the culture surroundin...