Publications
Apostles in England Sir James Thornhill and the Legacy of Raphael's Tapestry Cartoons
Raphael's seven large gouache paintings, called cartoons, that weavers used in creating tapestries for the Sistine Chapel nearly 500 years ago exerted enormous influence on the development of ...
View DetailsThe Old World Builds the New The Guastavino Company and the Technology of the Catalan Vault, 1885–1962
The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company was the major architectural innovator whose work is in more than 1,000 buildings in North America, was founded in 1889 by an emigré architect from ...
View DetailsThe Old World Builds the New The Guastavino Company and the Technology of the Catalan Vault, 1885–1962
The Guastavino Fireproof Construction Company was the major architectural innovator whose work is in more than 1,000 buildings in North America, was founded in 1889 by an emigré architect from ...
View DetailsThe Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print Etching, Illustration, Reproductive Engraving, & Photography in England in and around the 1860s
The first purpose of the exhibition and the accompanying catalogue were to demonstrate to an American audience the beauty and interest of British prints from the decade of the 1860s. The title of ...
View DetailsUnfaded Pageant Edwin Austin Abbey's Shakespearean Subjects
This book chronicles the history of the artist's Shakespearean work, which influenced late Victorian stage productions, and examines his interpretations in the context of late Victorian attitudes ...
View DetailsRobert Smithson Unearthed Drawings, Collages, Writings
Robert Smithson, the earthworks artist who died when his plane crashed in 1973, is best known for his 1970 piece "Spiral Jetty," done in the Great Salt Lake. This volume, published in connection with ...
View DetailsVictorian Pleasures American Board and Table Games of the Nineteenth Century from the Liman Collection
The Liman Board Game Collection is about play. It is also about meaning. The games in this fascinating collection are doubly profound aesthetically. They are beautiful to look at and also involve the ...
View DetailsVictorian Pleasures American Board and Table Games of the Nineteenth Century from the Liman Collection
The Liman Board Game Collection is about play. It is also about meaning. The games in this fascinating collection are doubly profound aesthetically. They are beautiful to look at and also involve the ...
View DetailsImpossible Picturesqueness Edward Lear's Indian Watercolours, 1873–1875
Edward Lear, best known as a writer of limericks and nonsense verse, was by profession a landscape draughtsman and painter. Traveling through exotic regions such as Calabria, Corsica, Egypt and India ...
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