The J. Paul Getty Museum's collection of ancient glass – astonishingly delicate, richly hued, and fancifully shaped-is among the most celebrated in the United States. With objects ranging from the Bronze Age to the medieval period (1500 BCE - 1000 CE...

This second volume of the Lucian Freud catalogue raisonne is the first attempt to comprehensively catalogue the artist's oil paintings. Over 500 works in the volume are presented and fully catalogued by Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, with separat...

A spectacular study of calligraphy, the most esteemed form of visual and textual expression in the Islamic world, through a storied collection of Qur'an manuscripts. Spanning more than a millennium, from the seventh through the nineteenth century,...

Celebrating the cultural significance and clarity of vision evident in Northern European art of the fifteenth through the eighteenth century. This book features Dutch, Flemish, Early Netherlandish, and German paintings and works on paper from the f...

An expansive look at the significant role of Hungarian immigrants in shaping American photographic culture and practice in the twentieth century. This beautifully illustrated book explores the cultural conditions for photography in Hungary in the f...

An exploration of southern China's ceramic industry and its links to Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia, and beyond via the maritime trade. Beautifully illustrated and engagingly written, "Celadon on the Seas" explores the development of the southern Chi...

Science is as much a visual practice as a textual or quantitative one. For centuries, scientists have used microscopes, telescopes, painting, illustration, printing, and photography to perceive nature and communicate what they see in it, often in col...

More than any other French Impressionist, painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) observed and depicted the many men in his life, including his brothers and friends, employees, and the workers and bourgeois in his Parisian neighborhood. Male subjects...

Earthen architecture is one of the oldest forms of construction and is evidenced around the globe. This volume gathers the research and presentations from Terra 2022: 13th World Congress on Earthen Architectural Heritage, which brought together in Sa...