Ask our staff anything about our shop or products, or leave your feedback.
In this absorbing analysis of the life and art of J M W Turner (1775-1851), Barry Venning argues that it is necessary to look at ...
'In clear and graceful English, Anthony Bailey presents all that can be known and much that can be guessed about this miraculous painter and his ...
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was one of the greatest, as well as one of the most interesting, of nineteenth century French painters. Acute observation, an extraordinary ...
Penguin Classics relaunch
A new selection of Vincent Van Gough's letters, based on an entirely new translation, revealing his religious struggles, his fascination with ...
First published in 1953, this book remains a classic piece of literature on the work and life of Michelangelo (1475-1564). It continues to be the ...
Thomas Gainsborough (1727-88) was one of the most brilliant portrait painters of the eighteenth century, surpassing his great rival Reynolds with his ability to capture ...
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) has been acclaimed by the twentieth century as the father of modern art. This superb volume surveys the life and work of ...
Lives of the Artists made Vasari one of the most influential art historians of all time, fusing literary and artistic ability
In his Lives of ...
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden ...
The first biography since 1877 of Venice's greatest artist - a towering work which captures the genius of Titian, beautifully illustrated throughout with full colour ...
Ernst Kirchner, seminal expressionist painter and founding member of the influential artists collective Die Brucke, came to the Swiss mountains during World War I to ...