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It is Paris in the 1400s. A young girl named Marguerite delights in assisting her father, Jacques, in his craft: illuminating manuscripts for the nobility of France. His current commission is a splendid book of hours for his patron, Lady Isabelle, but will he be able to finish it in time for Lady Isabelle's name day?

Reproduces 14 images from a 15th century manuscript, now in the J. Paul Getty Musuem. The commentary places the manuscript within its context as an account of Alexander's life.

A study of a manuscript created in 1469 by Taddeo Crevelli, an Italian illuminator of manuscripts. Kurt Barstow discusses each of Crevelli's paintings and relates its iconography to other devotional images of the time. All 24 of Crevelli's images are reproduced along with sample leaves.

This is a study of the Victorian photographer's photograph "Pasha and Bayadere". It includes information about the life and career of Roger Fenton, best known for his photographs of The Crimean War.

This study examines the sexual, historical and artistic contexts in which Renoir's "La Promenade" was created, and what it reveals about Renoir as man and artist. The reader is invited to see the work as a rejection of the idealist world of academic art and as a challenge to social and moral norms.

. Vincent van Gogh painted Irises in the last year of his life, in the garden of the asylum at Saint-Remy, where he was recuperating from a period of mental illness. Featuring colour illustrations, this title presents a study of this Vincent van Gogh's most famous paintings.

European historian Corboz takes the previous European analyses of the American city to task, centering his critical eye on the terrain of postmodern Los Angeles.

This teaching guide covers the identification, deterioration, and conservation of artifacts made from plants. It will be a valuable resource for conservators and students alike.

Contributors discuss current research, new findings, and specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials.

This series is a vehicle for texts generated through the experiences of writers, scholars, and artists who have been residents at the Getty Research Institute or involved in its programs.

This series supports scholarship in the field of art education and disseminates ideas about the theory and practice of discipline-based art education.

This historic 1933 publication documents the important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Italian pottery assembled in the early years of what is now the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

In eight decades photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo created works of art that display an array of styles and themes. This volume contains 50 images with extended commentaries on each by Robert Tejada, a curator and critic. There is also a transcript of a symposium on Manuel Alvarez Bravo.

In this volume 12 contributors present their responses to the world's newest major city - Los Angeles. A variety of perspectives and approaches are covered. As a whole, the text attempts to balance the importance of place with the importance of culture.

A discussion of 59 Greek funerary monuments at the J. Paul Getty Museum. The title considers their relationships to the art and society of the period. It should be suitable for scholars and students of antiquities, and museum and art libraries.

Known for their stunning displays of artistry and technique, Italian illuminated manuscripts have long been coveted by collection around the world. This illustrated volume presents many examples of Italian painting and illumination by noted artists such as Girolamo da Cremona, Pacino de Bonaguida, and Pisanello.

During the Renaissance, artists from Italy to Flanders and England to Germany depicted nature in their religious art to intensify the spiritual experience of the viewer. Devotional manuscripts for personal or communal usewere filled with some of the most beautiful nature studies of this period.

This richly illustrated catalogue features photographs by three Mexican women, each representing a different generation, who have explored and transform notions of Mexican identity in works that range from the documentary to the poetic.

Jose Clemente Orozco's 1930 mural, Prometheus, created for the Pomona College campus, is a dramatic and gripping examination of heroism. This thoughtful exhibition catalogue examines the multiple ways Orozco's vision resonates with four artists working in Mexico today: Isa Carrillo, Adela Goldbard, Rita Ponce de Leo n, and Naomi Rinco n-Gallardo.

Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham's writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents.

This volume accompanies a major international loan exhibition featuring some three hundred works of art rarely or never before seen in the United States. It traces the development of gold working and other luxury arts in the Americas from antiquity until the arrival of Europeans in the early sixteenth century.

The renowned Argentinian conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre, which shows his work to be evocative, restive, and exhilarating. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist's work in the United States, offers an incisive look into Lamelas's art.

Praised by Albrecht Du rer as being "the best in painting," Giovanni Bellini (ca. 1430-1516) is unquestionably the supreme Venetian painter of the quattrocento and one of the greatest Italian artists of all time.