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Icons and Identities
Drawing on the outstanding collection of the National Portrait Gallery, this volume celebrates the variety and complexity of portraiture The National Portrait Gallery holds the world's most extensive collection of portraits: a museum of people, a gallery of stories and ideas, and a home of artistic masterpieces. Icons and Identitiesdraws together icons from Shakespeare to Audrey Hepburn alongside less well-known sitters that provide insight into the representation of identity in portraits. It also includes some intriguing surprises to reflect the diversity of the National Portrait Gallery's collection and to introduce audiences around the world to exceptional portraits of many kinds. Icons and Identitiesshows how artists, working across mediums, have revealed the visually stimulating and intellectually vibrant tradition of portrait making. The book is structured around a series of key themes and each section includes a selection of works from a range of periods. Artists include: Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Andy Warhol, Marlene Dumas and Shirin Neshat.
Aquatint
How an ingenious printmaking technique became a cross-cultural phenomenon in Enlightenment Europe Driven by a growing interest in collecting and multiplying drawings, artists and amateurs in the eighteenth century sought a new technique capable of replicating the subtlety of ink, wash, and watercolor. They devised an innovative and versatile new medium—aquatint—which would spread in use across Europe within a few decades, its distinctive dark tones making possible a remarkable variety of ingenious imagery. In this illuminating book, Rena M. Hoisington traces how the aquatint technique flourished as a cross-cultural and cosmopolitan phenomenon that contributed to the rise of art publishin...
Titian
Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Titian's first masterpiece: The Flight into Egypt," held at the National Gallery, London, Apr. 4-Aug. 19, 2012.
Eat with Your Eyes
Feast on 14 yummy modern Southeast Asian artworks from National Gallery Singapore. You could even share these tasty nibbles with a friend or two! This is the first title in the Gallery's Art for Tinies series: board books with largerthan-life artworks for little art lovers and their grown-up companions.
Giotto to Dürer
"This book provides a survey of European painting between 1260 and 1510, in both northern and southern Europe, based largely on the National Gallery collection ... some 70 of the finest and best known paintings in the Gallery are examined in detail"--Cover.
National Gallery Technical Bulletin 1998
'The National Gallery Technical Bulletin' is a record of research carried out at the National Gallery, London. Published annually, and beautifully produced and illustrated, it covers all aspects of the conservation, technical study and care of the paintings in the collection. Drawing on the combined expertise of curators, conservators and scientists, it brings together a wealth of information about artists’ materials, working practices and techniques. 'The Technical Bulletin' is resource for art historians, collectors, museum curators, and all those with an interest in old master paintings, as well as essential reading for conservators.
Rubens
A fascinating exploration of the early work of the great Flemish master Rubens
The National Gallery Companion Guide
Since 1994, The National Gallery Companion Guide has introduced thousands of art lovers to one of the richest collections of paintings in the world. This edition has been revised and updated to include new pictures by Titian, Klimt and the American modernist, George Bellows.
One Hundred Great Paintings
Give the gift of art with this beautifully illustrated volume tracing the development of European painting over six centuries through one hundred pictures--each significant and by a different artist
