Books from Scala
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Roman Art: A Guide Through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection
By Seán Hemingway, Christopher S. Lightfoot, Joan R. MertensRoman copies and adaptations of Greek sculpture / Seán Hemingway -- The decoration of house and villa / Paul Zanker -- Luxury art / Christopher S. Lightfoot -- Shrines of the lares and offerings to other divinities / Paul Zanker -- Roman ...
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: Visitor Guide
By Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Janet LandayPresents color reproductions of more than 500 works from the vast collection with captions.
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Joseph Havel: A Decade of Sculpture 1996-2006
By Alison de Lima Greene, Peter Doroshenko, Joseph G. HavelPublished to accompany the major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Joseph Havel: A Decade of Sculpture 1996-2006 is the first major book to focus on Havel's investigation...
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Masterpieces of the Vatican
By Enrico BruschiniThe Vatican Museums contain some of the greatest Western art in the world. Thousands of works of art have been collected by successive popes since the early fifteenth century, and...
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Wells Cathedral
By Richard Lewis, Robert William Dunning, Melvyn MatthewsThis book is a visual celebration of the atmosphere and architectural beauties of one of England's finest cathedrals. Large specially commissioned photographs intersperse short essays about the Cathedral's history and...
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The Art Institute of Chicago: From 1879 to the Modern Wing
By Erin HoganThis book celebrates one of America's best-loved art museums and the opening of its major new extension, designed by acclaimed architect Renzo Piano. The Art Institute's first permanent building, which...
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The Immortal Stone: Chinese Jades from the Neolithic Period to the Twentieth Century
By James C. S. LinThe Immortal Stone: Chinese Jades from the Neolithic Period to the Twentieth Century
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NYC Sex: How New York City Transformed Sex in America
By N.Y.), Museum of SexThe diversity of New York City's people, cultures, religions, and backgrounds make it the indicator of American sexuality. It is black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor, rough, and tender all...
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A Guide to the Places of Piero Della Francesca
By Piero, Pamela ZanieriA Guide to the Places of Piero Della Francesca
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Great Collectors of Our Time: Art Collecting Since 1945
By James Stourton"Great Collectors of Our Time is the first major survey of contemporary collecting and collectors since 1963. It examines many of the greatest collectors of our time in Europe, North...
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Torre de Belém
By Paulo PereiraThe Torre del Belem was built as a fortress in 1514 to defend the mouth of Lisbon's river Tejo. Classified in 1983 as a World Heritage Site, the tower is...
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Paul Nash: The Elements
By Paul Nash, David Boyd Haycock, Simon GrantThis book examines the career of Paul Nash, official war artist and one of the great pioneers of British Modernism. David Fraser Jenkins interprets the artist's work in terms of...
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Chinese Romance from a Japanese Brush: Kano Sansetsu's Chōgonka Scrolls in the Chester Beatty Library
By Shane McCausland, Matthew P. McKelwayThis sumptuous book takes as its subject the pair of magnificent picture-scrolls entitled Song of Everlasting Sorrow (Chogonka gakan) held in the Chester Beatty Library's Japanese collection. Created by the...
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Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals
By Amy Pastan, Diego RiveraDiego Rivera's (1886-1957) Detroit Industry fresco cycle in the Detroit Institute of Arts is the finest Mexican-style mural in the United States. Completed in nine months, between July 1932 and...
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Italian Paintings and Drawings: The Royal Collection
By Martin Clayton, Lucy WhitakerThis lovely book celebrates one of the most exciting periods in European art, featuring the greats of Italian art history, from Renaissance to Baroque. The 16th and 17th centuries saw...
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Jazz, Giants, and Journeys: The Photography of Herman Leonard
By Herman LeonardWith a camera as his backstage pass, Herman Leonard has photographed the giants of jazz in their golden age, movie stars on sets and on their travels to exotic places,...
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Agnolo Bronzino
By Agnolo Bronzino, Alessandro CecchiAgnolo Bronzino
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Graham Sutherland: Landscapes, War Scenes, Portraits, 1924-1950
By Graham Vivian Sutherland, Martin HammerThis important book revisits a major figure from a now somewhat neglected generation who dominated the British art scene in the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on the period from the...
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The Black Paintings of Goya
By Juan José JunqueraThe Spanish master-painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) is revered not only for the delicate and sensitive treatment of his subjects but also for his radical political stance and modern sensibility....
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Nineteenth-century Art: From Romanticism to Art Nouveau : the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
By William R. Johnston, Walters Art Gallery, Md.)Nineteenth-century Art: From Romanticism to Art Nouveau : the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore