Poussin

Arts & Photography

Blunt, Anthony

Individual Artists

Pallas Athene

Constable/Links, as it is universally known in the trade and in the museum world, is one of the most celebrated and respected of all catalogues raisonnés. First published in 1962, the fruit of over 40 years of research by W. G. Constable, it was handed over to J.G. Links in 1969 for a second edition. Since then a great deal of new material has come to light—lost and hitherto unknown paintings have surfaced, as well as receipts from Canaletto's English years and much other documentary material. J.G. Links collected all this new information in a supplement to the catalogue. On a number of paintings he has also written small essays which illuminate the current state of Canaletto scholarship; and his conclusions are expressed in a wide-ranging introduction. All the new paintings, and much fresh comparative material, are illustrated in 48 pages of plates.

Canaletto: A Supplement to the Catalogue Raisonne

Links, J.G.

Constable, W.G.

History & Criticism

The Baroque, for many the most thrilling architectural style ever created, was born in Rome and reached its apogee in the work of three geniuses—Gianlorenzo Bernini, Francesco Castello Borromini, and Pietro Berretini da Cortona. Perhaps the greatest student of the Baroque was Anthony Blunt, who spent a lifetime studying and teaching the history of the buildings and their importance to us now. This elegant and concise introduction to the style and its flowering in Rome was first published in an anthology of essays in 1978, and represents a summation of his work. Many of the ravishing images included have not been republished since the beginning of the 18th century.

Roman Baroque

This is an invaluable pocket guide to the art of the Western world, covering all the essential places to visit and setting the major works in the collections in their historical and social context. Helen Langdon takes us to the best-loved museums around the world, but also to a vast selection of minor but equally fascinating galleries, churches, villas, and houses, where she draws our attention to outstanding paintings and sculptures. Whether guiding us to the scuole of Venice or the avant-garde galleries of New York, whether to the National Gallery in London or to private collections in Rome, this fascinating work of reference is a must for every traveller and art lover.

Art Galleries of the World

Langdon, Helen

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Raphael was for centuries considered the greatest artist who ever lived. Much of what we know about him comes from this biography, written by Florentine painter Giorgio Vasari. The Life of Raphael is a key text not only for the appreciation of Raphael’s artwhose development Vasari portrays in detailbut also for its unprecedented attention to theoretical issues. This stand-alone edition of The Life of Raphael, published to coincide with a major exhibition of the artist's paintings and drawings at England's National Gallery, illuminates the entire span of Raphael’s astonishing art.

The Life of Raphael

Vasari, Giorgio

In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe and still resonates today. Almost everything we know about his life comes from these three early biographies, and they reflect the often horrified fascination that Caravaggio exerted on his contemporaries. Giorgio Mancini, his physician, underscored the value of Caravaggio’s revival of painting. Giovanni Baglione, a mediocre rival, is far less generous, but unable to hide his awe. The leading art historian of the following generation, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, produced a more balanced assessment, with detailed analyses of many of his major paintings. The Lives of Caravaggio is introduced by Helen Langdon, the leading expert on the painter, who elucidates the historical and artistic context of these biographies.

The Lives of Caravaggio (Lives of the Artists series)

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro

Baglione, Giovanni

Mancini, Giorgio

This glorious, large-format volume is the first comprehensive monograph on the work of popular abstract artist Sylvia Edwards. Featuring more than 100 color images, it also includes four lithographs printed on fine paper, one of which is signed by the artist in a limited edition of 500 prints.

Sylvia Edwards: A Monograph

ELLIOTT, David

Gooding, Mel

For those who want to find out more about Africa and the Middle East than can be found in a normal guidebook, Sarah Anderson’s Travel Companion offers a delightfully informed personal selection, including travel literature, illustrated volumes, biographies and memoirs, and more. Travelers and readers can discover novels set in Kenya, cultural studies of Syria, or guidebooks best suited to their tastes. This is an indispensable companion for every serious reader of travel writing.

Sarah Anderson's Travel Companion: Africa and the Middle East

Reference

Anderson, Sarah

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

The sequel to How to Be Rich is an exploration of some of Ruskin's ideas about visual perception and how it affects the way we live
Darren's feeling depressed. Everywhere he looks it seems the world is falling apart. Even his four-legged friend Skittle can't lift him above the gloom of the evening news. But Darren's been here before, and once again a strange visitor from the past is about to turn his ideas upside down and change the way he sees the world. Hold on tight for a roller coaster ride which will open your eyes and leave you breathless.

How to See (2) (Ruskin Comics)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Ruskin, John

Jackson, Kevin

Graphic Novels

The first in a trilogy of comics based around the social ideas of major 19th century philosopher John Ruskin, this one based upon his 1860 essay on economy "Unto this Last"
Darren Bloke had always dreamed of being rich, and one day his dream came true. What he hadn't imagined was that for every problem his windfall solved, another set of problems would spring up. Before long, he'd lost his wife, his children, and his friends—everything but his dog Skittle. But help suddenly arrived, in the strange form of a man who had been dead for 100 years. The spirit of the writer John Ruskin burst into Darren's life, whisked him off on a trip through time and space, and showed him the real nature of wealth and poverty—in other words—how to be rich.

How to Be Rich: What to Do With It When You've Got It! (1) (Ruskin Comics)

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