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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012. 264 pages; 92 catalogue plates; numerous text illustrations. Bibliography. Artistic interpretations of Pompeii life and the calamity. Clean throughout; tight binding. First Edition. Embossed Cloth. Fine/Fine. 11" x 9 1/2". Exhibition Catalogue. Language: ENG.

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Softcover without dust jacket. Mild rubbing and superficial scratches to covers. Pages clean and unmarked with 349 illustrations and 288 pages. The Cleveland Museum of Art's British miniatures are renowned for their exceptional quality. British Portrait Miniatures takes a closer look at more than seventy treasures from its extraordinary collection, many published here for the first time. Captivating illustrations from new high-resolution details show these diminutive portraits as they have never been seen before. Representing years of research and systematic study, this volume collates new provenance, biography, and stylistic analysis to uncover the distinctive character of these enigmatic portraits.

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hardcover. Condition: Fine. J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles, CA October 2012 4to. 266 pages. yellow cloth boards. clean, tight copy. VG++.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Very minor shelfwear to book and DJ.; Decadence investigates the perception of Pompeii as a site of impending and well-deserved doom due to the excesses of the ancient Romans, such as paganism, licentiousness, greed, gluttony, and violence. The catastrophic demise of the Vesuvian sites has become inexorably linked with the understanding of antiquity, turning Pompeii into a fundamental allegory for Apocalypse, to which all subsequent disasters (natural or man-made) are related, from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Resurrection examines how Pompeii and the Vesuvian cities have been reincarnated in modern guise through both scientific archaeology and fantasy, as each successive cultural reality superimposed its values and ideas on the distant past.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages; Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Decadence investigates the perception of Pompeii as a site of impending and well-deserved doom due to the excesses of the ancient Romans, such as paganism, licentiousness, greed, gluttony, and violence. The catastrophic demise of the Vesuvian sites has become inexorably linked with the understanding of antiquity, turning Pompeii into a fundamental allegory for Apocalypse, to which all subsequent disasters (natural or man-made) are related, from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Resurrection examines how Pompeii and the Vesuvian cities have been reincarnated in modern guise through both scientific archaeology and fantasy, as each successive cultural reality superimposed its values and ideas on the distant past.; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 256 pages; Oversized.

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Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+. Hardcover covered with brown cloth and a color printed dustjacket in original unopened plastic wrap. 224 pp. illustrations (chiefly color). Rembrandt paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Rembrandt in the seventeenth century /; Tom Rassieur --; Rembrandt paintings and America /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's Leiden years : mastering his craft and defining his genius /; Tom Rassieur --; The elusive nature of portraiture : Rembrandt as a portraitist in Amsterdam /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's history paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Catalogue of the exhibition --; Appendix :; Rembrandt painting exhibitions in North America : 1892-2011. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Rembrandt in America, 30 October 2011-22 January 2012 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, 19 February-28 May 2012 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and 24 June-16 September 2012 at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts"--Title page verso./ Includes bibliographical references and index./ Organized by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG. Dark chocolate cloth boards, brown-tone pictorial dust jacket. 224 pp. Profuse color plates and figures. The singular 17th-century artist Rembrandt van Rijn contributed some of the most important and beguiling paintings to the history of Western art. This richly illustrated volume gathers some fifty of the finest paintings by the Dutch master and his followers from private and public collections across America, to tell the intriguing and often controversial story of the collecting and connoisseurship of Rembrandt paintings in America. Contents as follows: Rembrandt paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Rembrandt in the seventeenth century /; Tom Rassieur --; Rembrandt paintings and America /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's Leiden years : mastering his craft and defining his genius /; Tom Rassieur --; The elusive nature of portraiture : Rembrandt as a portraitist in Amsterdam /; George S. Keyes --; Rembrandt's history paintings in America /; Dennis P. Weller --; Catalogue of the exhibition --; Appendix :; Rembrandt painting exhibitions in North America : 1892-2011.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. Notes; This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection, on view at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Villa in Malibu, from September 12, 2012, to January 7, 2013; at the Cleveland Museum of Art from February 24 to May 19, 2013; and at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec from June 13 to November 8, 2013. Published on the occasion of the exhibition The Last days of Pompeii: decadence, apocalypse, resurrection, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, September 12, 2012, to January 7, 2013, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, February 24 to May 19, 2013 and at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, June 13 to November 8, 2013. Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-254) and index. Contents; Decadence, apocalypse, resurrection / Jon L. Seydl -- Pompeii on display / Kenneth Lapatin -- On the cutting edge: Pompeii and new technology / Victoria C. Gardner Coates -- The making of the myths: Edward Bulwer-Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii / William St. Clair and Annika Bautz -- Dirty little secrets: changing displays of Pompeian "Erotica" / Mary Beard -- Pompeii on the couch: the modern fantasy of "Gradiva" / Victoria C. Gardner Coates -- Screening Pompeii: the last days of Pompeii in cinema / Adrian Stähli -- Decadence -- Apocalypse -- Resurrection -- Pompeii exhibitions. Subjects; Eruption of Vesuvius (Italy : 79). Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Art and Design. Art and history. Art, Modern Themes, motives. Disasters in art. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Art and Design. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Pictorial works ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) In art ; Exhibitions. Disasters in art ; Exhibitions. Art and history ; Exhibitions. Art, Modern Themes, motives ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 Influence ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) Influence ; Exhibitions. Art history. Ancient history. Disasters in art. Art and history. Art, Modern Themes, motives. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city). Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79. Italy Pompeii (Extinct city). Italy Vesuvius. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Italien Vesuvius. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art ; Exhibitions. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79 ; Exhibitions. Pompeii (Extinct city) ; In art. Vesuvius (Italy) Eruption, 79. Genres; Bibliography. Catalogue. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogues. Illustrated. 4 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 264 pages. 11.50x9.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. Factory sealed. This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chasseriau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dali, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol--surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection. 264p. Illustrated in black/white and color.