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

Through a selection of over 100 world-class drawings created by Flemish artists in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book gives an insightful and comprehensive overview into how these drawn sheets were used as part of artistic practice, within or beyond the artist’s studio.

An indispensable introduction to the life and work of John Constable, highlighting key aspects of his innovating practice and the ways in which he brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature in nineteenth century art.

An indispensable introduction to the life and work of J.M.W. Turner, whose pioneering explorations into oil and watercolours continue to offer revelatory, efinitive interpretations of modern subjects.

An indispensable introduction to the life and work of Barbara Hepworth, whose sculptures expanded the possibilities for the purpose of art within modern society and how it can express human relationships with our surroundings.

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.

An indispensable introduction to the life and work of John Constable, highlighting key aspects of his innovating practice and the ways in which he brought a new vivacity to the observation of nature in nineteenth century art.

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...