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As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter who dared to impersonate him centuries later. For seven years a no-account painter named Han van Meegeren man...

One of the most important collections of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, available to the public for the first time.

Offers an overview on the development of British painting in the eighteenth century, which anticipated themes, and techniques that later became paradigms of modernity. This book focuses on the English context at a time when the growth of artistic standing was accompanied by the country's conquest of hegemony on a political and economic plane.

From the 1860s through to the early 20th century the rise of Japonisme and the Art Nouveau movement meant that few could ignore or resist the obsession with all things Japanese. This book includes examples of the designed and executed decorative arts of the Meiji periods from the Khalili Collection.

The first substantial book on the French Neo-Romantics, a cosmopolitan group working in 1920s Paris who turned against modernist abstraction in favour of a new form of figurative painting.

A unique guide to making sense of modern and contemporary art through seven different approaches, focusing on twenty major artworks from around the world.

The most authoritative and up-to-date introduction to Monet on the market, written by a world authority on Impressionism and 19th-century French art.