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

Florence: Sansoni, 1950. 54pp plus 147 monochrome plates. Hard cover 34.5x25.5cms. Important monograph on the life and work of Nanni di Antonio di Banco: born in Florence 1390, died 1421, pupil of Donatello. Much of Nanni's work is to be found in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence, or at Orsanmichele. Text in Italian.

Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 2002. 248 pages, colour and black and white illustrations throughout. Hardback 33x24.5cms. ISBN: 9788842211303. Text in Italian.

Paris: G. Van Oest, 1923. 146pp with 85 monochrome plates. Original 1923 edition rebound with publisher's wrappers cover attached to boards. Very good and clean copy. Cloth 33x25cms. Text in French.

2004. 322pp with 28 colour plates, 120 colour and 70 monochrome illustrations. Wrappers 28x24cms. ISBN: 8484551164. Series of essays on the work of Domingo Martínez, the 17th-century Spanish artist who was a follower of Murillo. With a catalogue raisonné of his paintings, documents and bibliography. Text in Spanish. Text in Spanish. Catalogue raisonné.

Madrid: 2010. 624 pp., with 465 colour and 40 black-and-white illustrations. Cloth 32 x 24cms. ISBN: 9788495241771. A catalogue of the works of Spanish Baroque painter Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), better known for his religious works than intimate portraits of everyday personages in bustling Seville. All of the artist's known works - many secluded in private collections - are presented here, alongside those whose existence has until now only been confirmed by documentary references or old black-and-white photographs and poor illustrations. Text in Spanish. Catalogue raisonné.

Mexico City: Editorial Polis, 1941. 644 pages, 126 plates. Wrappers 27.5x21cms. Text in Spanish.

2024. 244 pages with 190 illustrations: 180 colour & 10 black & white. Paperback 28x22cms. ISBN: 9781910807590. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, in collaboration with the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp, Rubenshuis and Christ Church Picture Gallery. Presenting over 100 drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the three main essays each deal with one of the principal functions of drawings at the time: studies (copies and sketches), designs for other artworks (paintings, prints, tapestries, metalwork, stained glass, sculpture and architecture), and finally the independent drawings. Highlights will include a sketchbook in which a young Rubens has copied Holbein's Dance of Death woodcuts, intricate pen and ink drawings by Pieter Bruegel, miniatures by Joris Hoefnagel, portrait studies by Anthony van Dyck, and a rare survival of a friendship album containing numerous drawings and poems dedicated to its owner. Two recently… Read More

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. 368 pages. Hardback 35.5 x 25.5cms. Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885). French draughtsman and engraver. Odilon Redon was his pupil. Text in French. Catalogue raisonné.

Exhibition: Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1988. 210 pages; illustrated. Paperback 30x24cms. ISBN: 9789070481582, 9070481588.

2019. 560 pages, 800 colour illustrations. Paperback 35 x 25cms. ISBN: 9788898229987.

Rome: Jandi Sapi, 1997. 469pp with 39 colour and 1124 monochrome illustrations. Cloth in a slipcase 31x25cms. ISBN: 8871420268. A descriptive catalogue of the work of this 16th-century artist, supported by five introductory sections: a critical survey of his life and career; the early years and the artist's arrival in Italy; his collaboration with Giorgio Vasari (for the Palazzo Vecchio, and other works); his travels to Naples and later works; his graphic output and collaboration with Antwerp engravers. With bibliography, indices (topographical index of the works, index of proper names, photographic references).

Exhibition: Paris, Galerie Renaud Vanuxem, 2004. Soft covers 31 x 21cms. ISBN: 2951810113. 34 objects illustrated by mostly full-page colour photographs with accompanying text. Text in French.

Arezzo: Michele Bellotti, 1762. Quarto. Contemporary limp paper, manuscript title to spine. Contemporary or near-contemporary library ticket to the front pastedown. Half title, engraved portrait frontispiece, title printed in red and black with allegorical engraving, engraved historiated initials and head and tail-pieces. Head of spine repaired, small area of worming to the lower cover, 19th-century library ink stamp partially washed from the lower corner of the frontispiece, occasional light spotting, but overall contents fresh and largely unopened. Second edition, originally published posthumously in 1588 and reprinted in 1619 under the title Treatise on Painting. Though himself a painter and architect, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is now best known as the founder of art history. He wrote the first, and certainly the most influential, collection of artists' biographies, Le Vite de' Piu Eccellenti Pittori, Scultori, E Architettori, and was responsible for promoting the modern concept of the… Read More

Paris: Picard, 1925. 293 pages. Paperback 22.5x14.5cms. Text in French.

1950. 32pp with 11 monochrome illustrations. Wrappers 27.5x21cms. Text in French.

Exhibition: Aachen, Suermont-Ludwig-Museum, 2008. 270 pages, illustrated throughout, mainly in colour. With a CD-ROM of the catalogue raisonné in English. Hardback 31.5 x 25.5cms. ISBN: 9789040085581. Text in Dutch & English.

1988. Signed and dedicated to Leslie and Clodagh by the artist. Unpaginated, colour and black and white illustrations. Paperback 29 x 23cms. Text in Spanish and English.

Paris: Hazan, 2005. 239 pages; illustrated. Hardback 30.5x24.8cms. ISBN: 9782850259906. Text in French.

2024. 304 pages with 109 colour illustrations. Hardback 31 x 26cms. ISBN: 9783777442563. A selection of 48 works by 25 artists from the Blaue Reiter and the Brucke groups, from the extensive collection of 700 Expressionist pieces held by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The entries delve into the paintings' histories, from their production to their arrival in St. Louis during World War II, when the Nazi regime organized the sale or destruction of all 'degenerate art'.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1968. Vol I: 465 pages. Vol II: 360 pages. Reprint of 1939 Edition. Hardback 22 x 16cms. Text in French.