Art (Bookshelf)

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This list highlights selected art books and books about artists, including practical methods and specialties, as well as general works on art and art history, plus visitor guides to art expos, galleries, and museums.

Artists

Biographies and autobiographies, memoirs, notebooks, overviews, reviews, studies of, and collected works.

Individual Artists

• R. Caldecott's First Collection of Pictures and Songs  by Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)

• Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini  by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)

• The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci - Complete  by Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)

• Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries  by Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

• My First Picture Book With Thirty-six Pages of Pictures Printed in Colours by Kronheim  by Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810-1896)

• Correggio; A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

• Jean Francois Millet  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

• Raphael; A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

• Sir Joshua Reynolds; A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

• Van Dyck; A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Painter With Introduction And Interpretation  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

• Watts (1817-1904)  Hare, William Loftus

• The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency  Trusler, John

Rembrandt

• Rembrandt  Menpes, Mortimer Luddington, 1855-1938

• Rembrandt and His Works; Comprising a Short Account of His Life; with a Critical Examination into His Principles and Practice of Design, Light, Shade, and Colour. Illustrated by Examples from the Etchings of Rembrandt  Burnet, John

• Rembrandt  Israels, Josef

• Rembrandt; A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

Michelangelo

• Michelangelo Gedichte und Briefe In Auswahl herausgegeben von R. A. Guardini  (German) Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564

• Michelangelo; A Collection Of Fifteen Pictures And A Portrait Of The Master, With Introduction And Interpretation  Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924

• The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti  Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893

Groups of Artists

• The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance  by Bernhard Berenson (1865-1959)

• The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance  by Bernhard Berenson (1865-1959)

• Great Artists, Vol 1: Raphael, Rubens, Murillo, and Durer  by Keysor, Jennie Ellis

• Navajo Silversmiths  by Washington Matthews (1843-1905)

• Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3)  by Shearjashub Spooner (1809-1859)

• Artists' Wives  by Daudet, Alphonse, 1840-1897

Also see: Masterpieces in Colour (Bookshelf)

Art Genre

Types of art (drawing, photography, sculpture, etc.). Includes historical and analytical works.

• Nietzsche and Art  by Anthony M. Ludovici (1882-1971)

• The Dance Historic Illustrations of Dancing from 3300 B.C. to 1911 A.D.  by Anonymous

• The Manual of Heraldry  by Anonymous

• Illuminated Manuscripts  by John William Bradley (1830-1916)

• French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture  by W.C. Brownell (1851-1928)

• The French Impressionists (1860-1900)  by Camille Mauclair (1872-1945)

• Prehistoric Textile Fabrics Of The United States, Derived From Impressions On Pottery  by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933)

• A Study of The Textile Art In Its Relation To The Development of Form and Ornament  by William Henry Holmes (1846-1933)

• Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts  by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

• The Art of the Moving Picture  by Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

• Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood  by Hugh Macmillan

• Mosaics of Grecian History  by Marcius Willson and Robert Pierpont Wilson

• The Best Portraits in Engraving  by Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

• Die Italienische Plastik  (German) Bode, Wilhelm, 1845-1929

• Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd.1, Mitteldeutschland, 1914  (German) Dehio, Georg, 1850-1932

• The History of Painting in Italy: From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Antonio Lanzi, 1732-1810 (6 vols.) (1828; the original Storia Pittorica dell'Italia was published in 1792 [History of Painting in Lower Italy] and in 1796 [History of Painting in Upper Italy]). Translated by Thomas Roscoe, 1791-1871
  • Volume I: History of Painting in Lower Italy  Contains Book I: Florentine School, and Book II: Sienese School
  • Volume II: History of Painting in Lower Italy  Contains Book III: Roman School, and Book IV: Neapolitan School
  • Volume III: History of Painting in Upper Italy  Contains Book I: Venetian School
  • Volume IV: History of Painting in Upper Italy  Contains Book II: Schools of Lombardy (Mantuan School, Modenese School, School of Parma, School of Cremona, and School of Milan)
  • Volume V: History of Painting in Upper Italy  Contains Book III: Bolognese School, Book IV: School of Ferrara, Book V: Genoese School, and Book VI: History of Painting in Piedmont and the Adjacent Territory
  • Volume VI: Indexes  Contains Index I: Professors of Painting mentioned in the work, Index II: Historical and Critical Publications relating to the Art, cited in the Work, and Index III: Of some of the most important Matters contained in the Work

Art Processes and Techniques

Methods employed by artists, including information about materials, supplies, and tools.

• Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing  by William N. Brown

• Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists  by George Field

• Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice  by F. Morley (Frank Morley) Fletcher (1866-1949)

• American Hand Book of the Daguerrotype  by S.D. Humphrey (1823-1883)

• History and Practice of the Art of Photography  by Henry Hunt Snelling (1816-1897)

• The Practice and Science of Drawing  by Harold Speed

• Lectures on Landscape; Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871  (English) by Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

• Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853  Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

• Bromide Printing and Enlarging; A Practical Guide to the Making of Bromide Prints by Contact and Bromide Enlarging by Daylight and Artificial Light, With the Toning of Bromide Prints and Enlargements  Tennant, John A.

Expositions, Galleries, and Museums

Discussion of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition held in San Francisco in 1915 with special emphasis on galleries, courts, palaces, art and sculpture exhibits.

• The City of Domes  by John D. Barry (1866-1942)

• How to See the British Museum in Four Visits  by W. Blanchard. Jerrold (1826-1884)

• An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition  by Sheldon Cheney

• Palaces and Courts of the Exposition  by Juliet Helena Lumbard James

• Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers  by Esther Singleton

General Works on Art and Art History

Essays, Lectures, Treatises and Overviews.

• Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People  by Mary Schell Hoke Bacon (1870-1934)

• The Relation of Art to Nature  by John William Beatty (1869-1941)

• The Psychology of Beauty  by Ethel D. P. Howes (1872-1950)

• The Madonna in Art  by Estelle M. Hurll (1863-1924)

• Concerning the Spiritual in Art  by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

• Seven Discourses on Art  by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) and Henry Morley (1822-1894)

• The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry  by Walter Pater (1839-1894)

• A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)  by John Ruskin (1819-1900)

• Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870  by John Ruskin (1819-1900)

• A History of Greek Art  by Frank Bigelow Tarbell (1853-1920)

• A Text-Book of the History of Painting  by John Charles Van Dyke (1856-1932)

• Chinese Painters; A Critical Study  by Petrucci, Raphael

• Masters of Water-Colour Painting  by H. M. Cundall, ed. Geoffrey Holme

• A History of Art for Beginners and Students, Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916

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