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Célébré en son temps, Théodore van Loon est aujourd'hui méconnu du grand public. Peintre foncièrement original, au tempérament artistique très différent de Rubens, il forge son langage essentiellement à partir de son expérience à Rome, où il se rend à plusieurs reprises au cours de sa carrière. (...)

This volume, the second catalogue of the Wyvern Collection, celebrates an outstanding group of medieval ivory carvings and small sculpture, the finest assemblage of its kind in private hands. The book has pieces from every period of the Middle Ages, including rare examples from the Early Christian (...)

Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages are now understood as times of extraordinary skill and creativity in the decorative arts. In the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium) artists and craftsmen transitioned from Roman' to Byzantine' art and inspired a move from naturalism to a more hieratic and (...)

A detailed and authoritative guide to medieval and Renaissance enamels and other outstanding works of art. A stimulus to further research and a feast for the eyes.This is the fourth catalog devoted to the Wyvern Collection, an exceptional private collection of medieval and Renaissance art. Works of (...)

A major reexamination of the father of the Hudson River School in relation to his European roots and travelsThomas Cole (1801 1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with (...)