Pioneering history painter, innovative portraitist and one of two women among the founders of the Royal Academy.

A captivating visual exploration of fashion and modern style as seen through the eyes of artists across the globe.

Ever since the emergence of the modern seasonal fashion industry in the nineteenth century, Western artists have been engaging with fashion's impact, meaning and forms in their artwork. In portraits, the clothes that sitters wear are often revelatory about their wider context or identity, or hold some symbolic meaning. As time has passed, small sartorial details artists used to ...

Jewelry's Shining Stars: The Next Generation brings together 45 new, talented women jewellery designers. Stunning photographs reveal original and innovative pieces that inspire and dazzle.

Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Utrecht, 1606 - Antwerp, 1684) is among the very best still-life painters of the seventeenth century. He worked both in Antwerp and the Northern Netherlands, thus bringing together Flemish and Dutch painting. De Heem was a wizard with oil paint who portrayed eye-catching illusions of opulence and beauty in his many still lifes of varying sizes. In the more than five decades in which he painted, he always sought innovation in his choice of subject matter and in the breath...

Featuring the works Japan's most celebrated neko-e artists, this gorgeous boxed set contains a volume of more than seventy exquisite accordion-fold prints and an accompanying booklet with explanatory texts.

For centuries, cats have played an essential role in Japanese culture and folklore. Long before Hello Kitty, they were fetishized and revered by every strata of Japanese society, especially by artists. This volume collects dozens of prints by the greatest masters of Japanese printmaking in...