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(H/B) CONSTABLE'S SKIES
John Constable is one of the greatest painters of the English weather. His depictions of the sky are essential components of all his landscape paintings, from famous works such as The Hay Wain and Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows to his numerous cloud studies painted on Hampstead Heath, culminating in paintings in which the landscape beneath the ever-changing sky is completely absent. Written by Mark Evans, a leading authority on the work of John Constable, Constable's Skies captures the artist's fascination with the sky and brings tog...
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(H/B) RENAISSANCE WATERCOLOURS
Many of the most beautiful Renaissance portraits, botanical illustrations and landscape paintings are watercolours. Spanning the period 1450-1640, this book considers these diverse artworks together for the first time, it brings together 150 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, Hans Holbein, Nicholas Hilliard and Anthony Van Dyck, as well as exquisite works by less well-known figures such as Giulio Clovio, Joris Hoefnagel, Jacopo Ligozzi and Jacques le Moyne. It highlights the intellectual breadth and artistic quality of the Ren...
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(P/B) TRANSFORM YOUR MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT
Today, more and more people are seeking natural and traditional ways of bringing increased well-being and harmony into their lives, turning to tried and tested remedies and therapies from all over the world for the treatment of everyday health problems. These therapies often look at the whole person: the mind, the body andthe spirit - for the cause of illness may be in all or just one of these areas. For ease of use the book is in three sections: Natural Healing, covering natural medicines and treatments The Power of Touch, looking at mass...
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(H/B) JOHN CONSTABLE
This exciting book presents a unique insight into Constable’s working process through the V&A's unparalleled collection. It places the artist in the context of his historical and ongoing influence and charts Constable's progress, from his early works to the oils that helped to define our idea of the English countryside. It presents afresh two of the V&A's star works, the vibrant full-size oil sketches for The Hay Wain and The Leaping Horse, which will be shown for the first time since their revelatory cleaning. Both will reveal their origi...
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(H/B) THE PAINTED WORLD
The Painted World takes the outstanding collections of the V&A as the starting point for an all-inclusive survey of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day, encompassing painted furniture, textiles and ceramics as well as traditional oil on canvas. The history of painting is often reduced to the story of a tiny elite of easel pictures, composed exclusively of old masters and avant-garde works. Many British paintings, watercolours, miniatures, icons and non-European works relate uneasily to this twin canon of old and modern masters...
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(H/B) THE FENG SHUI BIBLE