In the 1480s, the great Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli was commissioned by Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici to make a series of drawings to illustrate Dante's Divine Comedy. Botticelli gave stunning visual form to the poet's epic journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, but the project was never completed and the sheets were scattered. Now, more than 500 years after their creation, all 91 existing -- and very fragile -- vellum sheets will be shown together for the first time, in Berlin, Rome, and London. This book, which accompanies the exhibition, illustrates each of Botticelli's canto sheets in superb color, faced by a commentary on Botticelli's pictorial response to Dante's poem by Hein-Thomas Schulze Altcappenberg of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin, where 84 of the sheets are permanently housed. Eight essays on Botticelli, the Medici, and the Divine Comedy complete this unprecedented volume.

Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy

Arts & Photography

Keller, Peter

History & Criticism

Royal Academy Publications

Published to accompany a significant exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a visually stunning guide traces the progress of the visual arts across Paris, from the onset of Cubism in Montmartre, to the political and artistic uprisings of the 1960s in th

Paris: Capital of the Arts

WILSON, SARAH

New Connections: New Architecture, New Urban Environments and the London Jubilee Line Extension

In December 1999, the city of London completed the first extension of its underground transportation system in more than 30 years. With its innovative engineering and striking design, the state-of-the-art Jubilee Line Extension has won recognition as one of the great engineering and architectural achievements of its age.A dynamic case study of the impact of new urban transportation, this illustrated book not only looks at the engineering and architectural challenges involved, but also examines the line extension's vital importance as a catalyst for urban regeneration. Engineers, architects, and city planners will find lessons here for all cities -- at a time when urban renewal is a subject of intense interest throughout the world.

Stevens, MaryAnne

Architecture

Paul Hogarth (b. 1917) is one of the foremost illustrators and graphic artists of our age. Through his collaborations with celebrated writers such as Doris Lessing, Brendan Behan, Graham Greene, and Lawrence Durrell, his clever, witty work has become familiar to millions. His adventurous spirit permeates this autobiography in words and pictures, which offers an artist's-eye view of six decades of world history. Now available for the first time in paperback with 16 new pages on Hogarth's recent travels in Tuscany, Portugal, and Scotland, this copiously illustrated book is a humorous and unique commentary on 20th-century life.Richard Ingrams, Editor for over 20 years of Private Eye, Britain's leading satirical magazine, has written an introduction setting Hogarth's work in context.

Drawing on Life: The Autobiography of Paul Hogarth

Hogarth, Paul

Humor & Entertainment

Of all the traditional arts of Japan, none is more popular than the delicate woodblock prints known as Ukiyo-e. This stunning volume -- and the exhibition it accompanies -- highlights early Ukiyo-e masterpieces from the renowned Bigelow Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Most of these pictures of the floating world have never been published before.Forming a singular record of Japanese life, these lovely works are seen here in full color; all have been newly photographed for this volume. Essays, artist biographies, and exhaustive catalogue entries by leading scholars examine the stylistic nuances of the early masters, the techniques used by Ukiyo-e artists, and the history of the Boston collection, the finest collection of Asian art under one roof in the world.

The Dawn of the Floating World 1650-1765: Early Ukiyo-E Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

CLARK, Timothy

This dazzling volume enables art lovers everywhere to savor the delights of one of the world's finest private collections of modern art. Long known to experts and scholars, the Werner and Gabrielle Merzbacher Collection is unique in that the owners have only been willing to collect an artist's very best works -- true masterpieces. Displayed here, in vibrant full color, are outstanding works by Cezanne, van Gogh, Picasso, Derain, Matisse, Braque, Nolde, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Klee, Leger, Chagall, and Calder, among many others. The earliest works are by Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, but the collection focuses primarily on the Fauves and the German Expressionists.Published to accompany an exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts, this book will appeal to all who love modern art and color.

Masters of Colour: The Merzbacher Collection, 1885-1940

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Joe Tilson (b. 1928), one of Britain's leading artists, is renowned for his paintings, prints, and wooden constructions; his recent work explores the significance of words and images through vibrant colors and graphics.This retrospective book spans Tilson's entire career, from the 1960s to the present. Tilson belongs to the generation of British artists who include David Hockney, Peter Blake, and Frank Auerbach. Though he created some of the most iconic images of the British Pop Art movement, in the late 1960s, disenchanted with mechanical means of production, he began making handmade constructions from wood and metal, drawing inspiration from varied sources such as the four elements, classical mythology, and Alchera, the dream time of Australian Aboriginals. He returned to painting in the 1980s, creating totemic works that search for the beyond and the elsewhere. His work is explored here in an incisive essay by art critic Mel Gooding.

Tilson: Pop to Present

Gooding, Mel

Individual Artists

Frank Auerbach's world is London, his home since 1947. The German-born figurative painter (b.1931) depicts the city and its inhabitants in thick, energetic, brilliantly colored brush strokes. His work, which includes landscapes and portraits that recall the Old Masters, has earned him a place among contemporaries such as Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, and R.B. Kitaj.This book is published to accompany a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. With essays on the works, their place in Western art, and on the painter and his sitters, it brings Auerbach's art to a wider audience.

Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

In December 1999, London acquired a new component to its urban Underground system: the Jubilee Line was extended eastwards from Westminster to Stratford East, creating 11 new stations. This ambitious project incorporated innovative engineering techniques and transport planning, outstanding examples of contemporary architecture, and acted as a catalyst for urban regeneration.

Engineering & Transportation

Nelson, E. Charles

Transportation

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Sandro Botticelli: The Drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy

Paris: Capital of the Arts

New Connections: New Architecture, New Urban Environments and the London Jubilee Line Extension

Drawing on Life: The Autobiography of Paul Hogarth

The Dawn of the Floating World 1650-1765: Early Ukiyo-E Treasures from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Masters of Colour: The Merzbacher Collection, 1885-1940

Tilson: Pop to Present

Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings 1954-2001

New Connections: New Architecture, New Urban Environments and the London Jubilee Line Extension

Tilson: Pop to Present