Product Description: Sir Joshua Reynolds—to whom is the name unfamiliar? to whom, hearing it, does not appear in mental vision the equally familiar autograph portrait of the deaf artist? This picture, painted originally for Mr. Thrale, shows us the painter "in his habit as he lived," spectacles on nose, ear-trumpet in hand—in short, exactly as he was known to his intimates in his latter days in domestic life...read more

Product Description: Book by Evans, Grose

Product Description: Despite his fame as the founder of the early Florentine Renaissance, Giovanni Cimabue, 1240-1302, has been considered almost exclusively from a formal and attributive point of view with only general references to his Franciscan environment...read more

Product Description: The decisive role of the Carracci in seventeenth-century art was as apparent to their contemporaries as it is now, in our own time, Annibale Carracci ranks directly after Caravaggio as the most important Italian painter of the Baroque era...read more

Samples of art from the W. E. Groves Collection, which contains paintings, prints, watercolors, daguerreotypes, and miniatures, including 155 portraits and 217 landscapes. Louisiana painting of the 19th century exhibits literal subjectivism- hard-core reality flavored with an exuberant romanticism and seasoned with the shudder of a Gothic novel. In this volume entitled Nineteenth Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings are samples of art from the W.E. Groves Collection, which contains some 1,500 paintings, prints, watercolors, daguerreotypes, and miniatures, including 155 portraits and 217 landscapes pertaining to Louisiana.

Product Description: The universal dream of doing the work you love and earning a living at it forms the heart of this current edition of a book that has become a favorite of many potters. This fresh account of The Mud-Pie Dilemma, written by John Nance, updates by 25 years the classic story of Tom and Elaine Coleman and their struggles to create a successful, loving marriage and family while master potter Tom seeks to realize his extraordinary potential as a ceramic artist...read more

Presents the life and representative works of artist and sculptor Alexander Calder against the world of contemporary art.

Product Description: Book by Wolfe, Karl