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Essays in English Architectural History by Howard Colvin
$40.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art | Reading Level: very good
Widely acknowledged as Britain's leading architectural historian, Sir Howard Colvin has been responsible for fundamental research that has helped to bring about a renaissance in English architectural history in the second half of the twentieth century. In this volume, Colvin gathers eighteen new and rev ...Show more
Richard Parkes Bonington The Complete Drawings by Noon, Patrick
$85.00 NZD
Category: Art | Series: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art | Reading Level: Very Good
By the time of Richard Parkes Bonington's tragic death from tuberculosis in 1828, the 25-year-old artist, who was born in England and moved to France as a teenager, was already a seminal figure in the development of modernism in 19th-century French painting. This catalogue raisonn of his drawings serves ...Show more
The Discovery of Painting - The Growth of Interest in the Arts in England, 1680-1768 by Iain Pears
$15.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Series: Studies in British Art | Reading Level: very good
The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds by John Ingamells (Editor); John Edgcumbe (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Artists | Series: The\Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Joshua Reynolds could never have anticipated an edition of his letters; he once told Boswell that "If I felt the same reluctance in taking a Pencil in my hand as I do a pen I should be as bad a Painter as I am a correspondent." Yet although his surviving letters are those of a busy man, and many are ...Show more
Westminster Abbey - A Church in History by David Cannadine (ed.)
$65.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Series: The\Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant icon of British national and imperial identity. C ...Show more
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