Search Results: Authors starting with B from Thomas Heneage Art Books

Athens: Ekdoseis Adam Editions, 1993. 144 pages, illustrated throughout in colour. Paperback 24 x 31cms. ISBN: 9607188365. Text in Greek.

Exhibition: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, 2023. 402 pages, 210 illustrations. Paperback 28x22cms. ISBN: 9789462087354. An exploration of the Rijksmuseum’s collection of design drawings and prints. Twelve chapters illustrate and discuss 204 designs, focusing on their creation and function in the design process. Discussions include designs for church furnishings, furniture makers’ ‘meisterriss’, designs never intended to be executed, the Valadier workshop in Rome and the commercial role of drawings. Text in English.

Amsterdam: 2006. 296pp with 190 colour and 150 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 29x24.5cms. ISBN: 9040090181. The third volume in a four-volume series on Netherlandish art during the 15th to 19th centuries, this volume surveys the developments of 18th-century Dutch painters, silversmiths, sculptors, potters and cabinetmakers, from the collections of the Rijksmuseum. Artists represented include Cornelis Troost, Nicolaas Vekolje, Willem van Mieris, and Jan Baptist Xavery. Text in English.

Florence: Ed. Pananti, 1989. xiv, 480pp with 118 colour plates and 659 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 30x25cms. Important reference work. With a fully illustrated descriptive catalogue of 618 works, chronology, documentation, bibliography. From an edition limited to 1,500 copies only. Text in Italian.

Milan: Rizzoli, 1973. 112pp with 64 colour plates and 175 monochrome illustrations. Hardback 31.5x24.5cms. Text in Italian.

Soncino: Edizioni dei Soncino, 1991. 109pp with 3 double-page colour plates, 28 colour and 19 monochrome illustrations. Wrappers 30x21cms. Life and work of the 15th-century painter, with detailed, well-illustrated examination of 10 works. Includes a section on his graphic work. With bibliography. Text in Italian.

Milan: Rizzoli, 1976. 103pp with 64 colour plates and 77 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 31.5x24.5cms. Text in Italian.

2019. 966 pages, over 1000 entries illustrated in colour. Hardback in a slipcase 35 x 26cms. This is a limited edition of 500 copies that brings together over 1 000 rare objects created by Cartier between 1875 and 1965, most of which are in private collections, here published for the first time and illustrated life size.Volume one traces Cartier's history from its origins to the 1960s, beginning with the period of Fabergé influence through to the iconic 1920s art deco style and the exotic inspired by Chinese art and the maharajas of India.This chronology is complemented by a second volume on the relationship between the Cartier brothers and their collaborators, with a focus on the manufacturing process. In particular, it features more than 80 marks of master goldsmiths, a list of suppliers and original design drawings from both the Cartier Collection in Geneva and the authors' personal collections. Text in English.

Konstsalongens, 1951. 548pp plus 40pp with 75 monochrome illustrations and over 800 facsimiles of hall- and makers' marks. Cloth 24 x 17cms. Essential reference work with biographies of hundreds of gold- and silversmiths, from Russia and other countries, registered in St. Petersburg. Chapters divided by country of origin of the silversmiths, with many illustrations of their marks. Indices of makers' marks; silversmiths. Rare. No. 132 from a limited edition of 500 copies. Text in Swedish.

Exhibition: New York, Cheim & Read, 2016. 136 pages, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback 36 x 30.5cms. ISBN: 9781944316013, 1944316019.

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980. 878 pages. Hardcover in slipcase 25 x 19cms. ISBN: 0870992503, 9780870992506.

Rome: Andrea De Fei, 1642. Quarto. Contemporary vellum, black morocco label, edges of text block dyed green. Contemporary or near-contemporary manuscript spine label and notes on the endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription washed from the title page, attractive 20th-century bookplate. Lacking the engraved frontispiece & portrait of the author which is often missing, including in the Macclesfield copy. Boards scratched and marked, contents with some tanning, spotting, and damp stain. Very good condition.Ex Libris of Pietro Toesca to front pastedown. Text in Italian.

Nuova Alfa, 1986. 355pp with 13 colour and 189 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 30x21.7cms. ISBN: 8877790008. Divided into two parts: the first a monograph on the Mannerist Bolognese artist (1633-1715), pupil of Guercino; the second part is devoted to the workshop of Guercino - Barolomeo, Lorenzo, Ercole and Cesare Gennari, Benedetto Zallone, Matteo Loves and Paolo Antonio Barbieri. Text in Italian.

Bologna: Nuova Alfa, 1992. vii, 757pp with 163 colour, 7 duotone and 551 monochrome plates, family tree. Hardback 31.5x25cms. ISBN: 8877793406. Monumental study of the works of the Gandolfi family. With introduction to the family's background. Main catalogue divided into four sections: Rinaldo; Ubaldo; Gaetano; and Maura Gandolfi. With other sections that include preparatory sketches for probable paintings, sculptures, studies of heads. With bibliography, index of artists and works, index of places. Text in Italian.

1978. 156pp with 7 colour plates and 123 monchrome illustrations. Wrappers 23x21.5cms. Mannerist painter from Siena. With chronology, catalogue of paintings and drawings. Text in Italian.

1991. xcv, 492pp with 93 colour plates (26 full page) and 274 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 31.5x24cms. ISBN: 2711823997. Substantial documentation of eighteenth century French mythological painting. Two annexes form the first complete list of such paintings to appear in French salons between 1699 and 1791. Bibliography, index of lenders. Text in French.

Exhibition: New York, Frick Collection, 2006. 120pp, fully illustrated in colour. Cloth 29x23cms. ISBN: 285056947X. First American exhibition on the 18th century Swiss pastellist and miniaturist, who was a contemporary of Quentin de La Tour and Chardin, focussing on his society portraits, some of which were deliberately unflattering. He was greatly influenced by his travels in Turkey and was in much demand by the European courts of the day. The collection of his work from Geneva is the most comprehensive in the world and is supplemented by those from private collections in Switzerland. Introduction by Marcel Roethlisberger. Text in English.

London and New Haven: 2002. 344pp with 60 colour and 150 monochrome illustrations. Cloth 25.6x19.2cms. ISBN: 0300089864. Discussion of six French collectors of the pre-revolutionary period, their collections and the 18th-century patriotic zeal for collecting contemporary art of 'l'École Française'. Text in English.

1982. 143pp with 9 colour plates and 92 monochrome illustrations. Wrappers 29x22cms. Text in English.

Paris: Leonce Laget, 1972. Number 355 of 500 copies printed. Around 400 pages across the two volumes. Volume I with black and white illustrations throughout. Hardback 31x23cms. Text in French.