What is assembled here might look like a modern 'Cabinet of Curiosities', an assemblage of the ex...

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poet, painter, aesthete, founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...

First book dedicated to pioneering equine artist James Seymour, who painted many of the great hor...

This hardback presentation of George Stubbs' The Anatomy of the Horse is taken from the 1853 prin...

Francisco de Holanda's Dialogues record Michelangelo's participation in art discussions hosted by...

165 lustrous colour photographs of musical instruments from Islamic lands, including kermanche, s...

One of the most madly inventive works of satire ever created, Gustave Dore's Rare and Extraordina...

John Ruskin's The King of the Golden River was the first literary fairy tale in English. Includes...

Rarely seen watercolors by the greatest English artists of the 19th century, beautifully reproduc...

Charles Ricketts wrote this account of his close friendship with Oscar Wilde, partly as an imagin...

Richly illustrated examination of the relationship between art and literature in English art from...

The classic guide to the enchanting destinations of the Ile-de-France, all within an hour's journ...

A vivid collage-portrait of Rome - three parts complete in one volume - the most comprehensive an...

One of the classic texts on Picasso, republished with full illustration as originally conceived. ...

Known as The Proverbs, The Dreams or The Follies (Los Disparates), Goya's enigmatic last etchings...

A novel by one of Britain's leading figures in museums and collecting of the last 50 years, based...

Condivi's unparalleled biography presents his friend Michelangelo's life, work and struggles in t...

A volume dedicated to Albrecht Dürer's series of woodcuts illustrating the Passion of Christ. An ...

An anthology of Sir John Everett Millais's illustrations for Trollope, Tennyson, Collins and week...

Part unconventional biography, part travelogue tracing the profound influence on how we look, liv...

'To critics who said that the full-lipped so-called 'Beardsley mouth', which adorned many of his ...

A passionate plea to defend Venice's fate from mass tourism, commodification and cultural homogen...

Beautifully produced facsimile of a watercolor artist's book recording many of the most fascinati...

A richly illustrated book about the celebrated connoisseur, collector and philanthropist Sir Rich...

Collected for the first time and in a new translation, the two most important contemporary accoun...

This title presents the three most important early biographies of Veronese, one never before tran...

'To know his work without his talk is 'not to know him' ...only when they are side by side is the...

Experience the sights and sounds of the City of Lights like a true native with this expanded edit...

'John Ruskin, Effie Gray, John Everett Millais and the surprising truth about the most notorious ...

This publication presents three very different biographies of Rembrandt by contemporaries. An int...

Discover half-hidden chateaux and artists' country houses; walk, boat or dance by the river; expl...

A decade-old obsession for Dutchman Pieter Boogaart resulted in a guidebook that looks like no ot...

Written by his collateral descendant, sculptor Andrew Wordsworth, this insightful biography studi...

Contemporary assessments of the life and art of Bellini, including his wayward correspondence wit...

One of the great classics of modern art: Gauguin's own account of his time in Tahiti, in its orig...

Presents one of the greatest biographies of an artist ever written, and a key document of the Ren...

A lifetime of Jim Dearden's captivating articles on artist, critic, writer and environmentalist J...

' … The author's personal, beautiful, and discursive style will appeal to enthusiasts of a...

Never reprinted since their first, posthumous appearance in 1935, these woodcuts were the only pr...

John Ruskin's The Stones of Venice has been described as the greatest guidebook ever, and it tran...

In celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of Victorian Britain's greatest think...

This publication presents the most important early texts about Titian some for the first time in ...

The work that launched the picturesque movement and changed our ways of looking at landscape fore...

The classic guide to all burials of the kings, queens and lords protector of England, Scotland an...

The most comprehensive anthology of writings by visitors to the eternal city ever compiled – witt...

An extraordinary ‿ and strikingly illustrated ‿reflection on the meaning of war from one of o...

The diary of A. C. Benson, poet and educationalist, illuminate a career at the heart of the Edwar...

Marriage a la Mode is the most famous of William Hogarth's 'progresses' or series paintings, the ...