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Art
Step into a gallery where genius is still wet on the canvas and every page opens onto a new way of seeing. From Renaissance masters and Impressionist revolutionaries to the first flicker of film, photography, architecture, and the hidden discipline behind drawing itself, this bookshelf turns art history into a vivid, living drama. Here, vision becomes obsession, beauty becomes argument, and the world is remade by those bold enough to imagine it differently.
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G. F. Watts
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
America in the War Each cartoon faced with a page of comment by a distinguished American, the text forming an anthology of patriotic opinion
by Louis Raemaekers
Coloured engravings of heaths; vol. 3
by active 1799-1828 Henry Cranke Andrews
Raffael
by H. (Hermann) Knackfuss
Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians
by Douglas Cockerell
Wood-Carving: Design and Workmanship
by George Jack
I manifesti del futurismo
by F. T. Marinetti
On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
by John Ruskin
Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry
by John Vinycomb
Modern Painters, Volume 3 (of 5)
by John Ruskin
Heraldry for Craftsmen & Designers
by Sir W. H. St. John (William Henry St. John) Hope
Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts
by John Addington Symonds
The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time
by Henri Bouchot
A Joy For Ever (and Its Price in the Market)
by John Ruskin
Thoughts on Art and Autobiographical Memoirs of Giovanni Duprè
by Giovanni Duprè
Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
by Grace Christie
Reflections on the painting and sculpture of the Greeks : with instructions for the connoisseur, and an essay on grace in works of art
by Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Art Principles with Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter
by Ernest Govett
Angels in Art
by Clara Erskine Clement Waters
Chats on Old Sheffield Plate
by Arthur Hayden
Historic Ornament, Vol. 2 (of 2) Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament
by James Ward
French Polishing and Enamelling: A Practical Work of Instruction
by Richard Bitmead
Essays on Art
by A. (Arthur) Clutton-Brock
Chats on Old Furniture: A Practical Guide for Collectors
by Arthur Hayden
The Hidden Masterpiece
by Honoré de Balzac
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
Laurus Nobilis: Chapters on Art and Life
by Vernon Lee
Florence historique, monumentale, artistique
by Marcel Niké
Egyptian decorative art : A course of lectures delivered at the Royal Institution
by W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie
Turner's Sketches and Drawings
by A. J. (Alexander Joseph) Finberg
An embroidery book
by Anne Knox Arthur
Arnold Böcklin
by Heinrich Alfred Schmid
The Eighteenth Century in English Caricature
by Selwyn Brinton
Propos de peintre, deuxième série: Dates Précédé d'une Réponse à la Préface de M. Marcel Proust au De David à Degas
by Jacques-Émile Blanche
London Impressions: Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure
by Alice Meynell
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 19, No. 552, June 16, 1832
by Various Authors
The Fourth-Dimensional Reaches of the Exposition: San Francisco, 1915
by Cora Lenore Williams
The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Vol. 01, No. 06, June 1895 Renaissance Panels from Perugia
by Various Authors
Die moderne Wohnung und ihre Ausstattung
by Joseph Aug. (Joseph August) Lux
De Geest van China
by Henri Borel
American Historical and Literary Curiosities, Part 16. Second Series
by J. Jay (John Jay) Smith
The Mentor: Chinese Rugs, Vol. 4, Num. 2, Serial No. 102, March 1, 1916
by John Kimberly Mumford
J. Comyns Carr: Stray Memories, by His Wife
by Alice Vansittart Strettel Carr
The Glebe 1913/12 (Vol. 1, No. 3): The Azure Adder
by Charles Demuth
Deutsche und Französische Orgelbaukunst und Orgelkunst
by Albert Schweitzer
The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1 (of 4) Hegel's Aesthetik
by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The Dance of Life
by Havelock Ellis
Mosaics of Grecian History
by Marcius Willson, Robert Pierpont Wilson
Needlework As Art
by Viscountess Marianne Margaret Compton Cust Alford
Artistic Anatomy of Animals
by Édouard Cuyer
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
by James McNeill Whistler
Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture
by Alexander Van Millingen, Walter S. George, Arthur E. (Arthur Edward) Henderson, Ramsay Traquair
The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art
by Various Authors
Arts and crafts in the Middle Ages : a description of mediaeval workmanship in several of the departments of applied art, together with some account of special artisans in the early Renaissance
by Julia de Wolf Addison
The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge A Catalogue and a Commentary
by Henry Festing Jones, A. T. (Augustus Theodore) Bartholomew
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
by da Vinci Leonardo
Visual Illusions: Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications
by Matthew Luckiesh
Circus Life and Circus Celebrities
by Thomas Frost
A Wanderer in Florence
by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas
Scarabs : An introduction to the study of Egyptian seals and signet rings
by Percy E. (Percy Edward) Newberry
The Principles of Ornament
by James Ward
Intarsia and Marquetry
by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
Salt mines and castles: The discovery and restitution of looted European art
by Thomas Carr Howe
Moving Pictures: How They Are Made and Worked
by Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot
Turner's Golden Visions
by C. Lewis (Charles Lewis) Hind
Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation
by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll
Historic Ornament, Vol. 1 (of 2) Treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament
by James Ward
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
by Various Authors
De Nederlandsche Nationale Kleederdrachten
by Theodoor Molkenboer
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle - Tome 2 - (A suite - C)
by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
The Art and Practice of Silver Printing
by H. P. (Henry Peach) Robinson, Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney
The Lure of the Camera
by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott
La maison d'un artiste, Tome 1
by Edmond de Goncourt
Estudio descriptivo de los monumentos árabes de Granada, Sevilla y Córdoba ó sea La Alhambra, el Alcázar y la Gran Mezquita de Occidente
by Rafael Contreras
After Icebergs with a Painter A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around Newfoundland.
by Louis Legrand Noble
Dress as a Fine Art, with Suggestions on Children's Dress
by Mary P. (Mary Philadelphia) Merrifield
Reynolds
by Randall Davies
George Cruikshank
by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Best Portraits in Engraving
by Charles Sumner
An Artist in Egypt
by Walter Tyndale
Mythology in Marble
by Louie M. Bell
The Parthenon By Way Of Papendrecht
by Francis Hopkinson Smith
Americans, Drawn by Charles Dana Gibson
by Charles Dana Gibson
Descriptive Zoopraxography; or, the science of animal locomotion made popular
by Eadweard Muybridge
The Water-Colours of J. M. W. Turner
by J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner, A. J. (Alexander Joseph) Finberg, W. G. (William George) Rawlinson
The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition
by Stella G. S. (Stella George Stern) Perry
Van Dyck
by Percy Moore Turner
American Scenery, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature
by Nathaniel Parker Willis