Renaissance features paintings by some of the greatest artists in Renaissance Italy. Raphael, Botticelli, Bellini and Titian, among others, form an amazing array of talent and creative splendor.The book focuses on exquisite paintings, made between 1400 and 1600, from centers of Renaissance high culture in Florence, Venice, Siena, Padua, Perugia, Urbino, Ferrara, Verona, Mantua, Milan, Bergamo and Rome. The works are from the collection of one of Italy’s finest art museums, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo. Subjects range from touching depictions of the Madonna and Child to episodes from the lives of saints, and moving renditions of the Crucifixion to portraits of men and women in elaborate costume.This beautiful book reflects the genius and creativity of the two centuries of Italian Renaissance art that are the foundation of the grand tradition of European painting. It includes essays by Italian and Australian scholars, descriptions of the paintings, and biographies of the artists.

Renaissance: 15th and 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo

Arts & Photography

Radford, Ron

History & Criticism

National Gallery of Australia

This book presents a new look at landscape painting in the nineteenth century as it transformed from the depiction of known places to explorations of mood and time passing. Masterpieces in oil and watercolor illustrate the genre from its predominance in Britain to extraordinary manifestations in France, Germany and the rest of Europe. Turner to Monet shows the spread of landscape painting to new territories where European artists in Australia, Asia and the Americas extended the Western tradition.In the new worlds of Australia and North America, the land itself became a heroic character in the pictorial narrative. Vast skies of crystalline air, dramatic sunsets, expansive plains and valleys all emphasise the size of the continents. Increasingly, humans are shown in modern surroundings, the all-enveloping city in which nature seems controlled. In the last decades of the century, artists used the genre of landscape to experiment with colour and form, and so questioned the nature of painting itself .Works by the finest artists of the time--Turner, Constable, Friedrich, Corot, Courbet, Glover, Von Guérard, Church, Streeton, Roberts, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Mone--are included, from public and private collections in Australia and around the world.

Turner to Monet: The Triumph of Landscape Painting

Dixon, Christine

Ward, Lucinda

Reference

Wild visionary spectral: New German art

Australian colonial art, 1800-1900

Distributed by Thames and Hudson

Chemistry Art in South Australia, 1990-2000: The Faulding Exhibition

The theme in this book on contemporary arts and crafts relates to Australia's melting pot of native artists who never left and of those who emigrated and returned bringing new ideas from other shores. From public art, to work in experimental art institutions, the vigorous art scene will be refreshing to Western eyes. Especially interesting is Adelaide's Jam Factory, a sophisticated art and design complex for artists working in metalwork, ceramics, furniture and glass. (Art Gallery of South Australia)

Thomas, Sarah

Art Gallery of South Australia

The works produced by Australia's women artists during the 40 years from the post-World War I period to after World War 11 reflected the challenges of the times. These women explored new ideas about what art could portray, bringing home new movements like Cubism from Europe. They extended painting and printmaking and challenged other artists and Australian audiences. The works here are by Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, Dorrit Black, Grace Crowley, Stella Bowen, and 11 others, artists that are well-known by the Australian and international public as well as less exposed artists. Included are artists' biographies and bibliography. (Art Gallery of South Australia)

Modern Australian Women: Paintings and Prints 1925-1945

Hylton, Jane

Tom Roberts (1856-1931) has been called the father of Australian Impressionism. The most versatile of its great painters, his works have been shown in more of Australia's public galleries than any other artist. Paintings like "Shearing the rams" (1888-1890) and "Golden Fleece" (1894) are two examples of his large pieces that have become icons of the country's cultural identity. (Art Gallery of South Australia)

Tom Roberts

Individual Artists

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