Books by Alexander Sturgis

The first book of its kind, offering a unique opportunity to view many inaccessible places in Oxford and including many previously unpublished images and pictures of the new RIBA-nominated chapel at Ripon College.

How faces are captured shows in striking ways the artistic aims of those who painted them. But how can the depiction of a face suggest a personality? This book tackles this and other questions, and introduces such issues as the ideals of beauty and how portrait painters have captured a likeness and convey character.