Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting by Gary Tinterow. From the lavish, blockbuster show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the story of how French taste for Spanish painting boosted the rise of Realism and Impressionism in 19th century painters such as Manet

This classic how to learn to draw text by Nicolaides is a must have for students, especially those stuck in a typical university/academic conceptual art school that denigrates and ridicules the entire concept of drawing, the basis of art itself

Degas: Beyond Impressionism by Richard Kendall, Edgar Degas. Degas late paintings and pastels place him at the front rank of both classical and realist art since the Renaissance

Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation by William Rubin, et al. Catalogue of blockbuster show at MoMA, New York, 1996, of Picasso portraits arranged by period and style

Fictions of the Pose: Rembrandt Against the Italian Renaissance by Harry Berger. Rembrandt and the Renaissance...

Titian: Prince of Painters by Titian, National Gallery of Art. From the unforgettable 1991 National Gallery blockbuster of the Venitian painter Titian, tracing every aspect of his paintings, their style, and the mystery of their layered, painterly color

Raphael by Pierluigi De Vecchi, Raphael. Learn the paintings, drawings and frescoes of Raphael Santi, subject of rare show by the classical Renaissance master at the National Gallery, London, 2004

Michelangelo and Raphael in the Vatican by A. Graziano, F. Mancinelli. The frescoes of the Sistine Chapel and The Stanza Della Segnatura by Michelangelo and Raphael...

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