Old Masters

Francisco de Goya

In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Francisco Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw happening in the world around him into his visionary paintings, drawings and etchings.
Francisco Goya: Old Man

John Singer Sargent

Comprising over two hundred portraits and portrait sketches in oil and watercolor painted between 1900 and the John Singer Sargent's death in 1925, this book completes the trilogy of portrait volumes. The catalogued works have been grouped into two chronological sections, each with an introduction that sets the particular group in context.
John Singer Sargent: Later Portraits

William Turner

This attractively produced and priced portable volume follows the grand master of 19th century landscape painting as he travels the European countryside, finding inspiration and themes for his renowned drawings and paintings.
William Turner on Tour

Treasures of the Prado

When it opened on November 19, 1819, the Prado Museum, in Madrid, consisted entirely of works from the Spanish royal collections. Numerous treasures have been added since opening day, but the unique strengths of the Prado's collection can still be traced to that original core of remarkable works-many acquired or commissioned from the artists themselves during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
Treasures of the Prado

Art in Europe 1700-1830

In an era of unprecedented change - rapid urbanization, economic growth, and political revolution - European artists from 1700-1830 were in the business of finding new ways of making, selling, and talking about art. Matthew Craske creates a totally new and vivid record of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century art in Europe.
Art in Europe 1700-1830

Rembrandt

Rembrandt started with painting lessons in 1620. He attended the classes of the Academy of Leiden for one year. After this year he proceeded his training with the masters Jacob van Swanenburg and Pieter Lastman. From 1625 he shared a studio with Jan Lievens.
In 1631 Rembrandt left Leiden and went to Amsterdam. In this city he quickly became famous and generally respected. Rembrandt painted in a characteristic style and his paintings were distinguished from the work of his colleagues.
Rembrandt