World of Art series

Western Art

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The Art of the Renaissance

The Art of the Renaissance

  • Paperback
The gap in the literature of the Renaissance has indeed been filled – Art Review

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

Art and Myth in Ancient Greece

A Handbook

  • Paperback
Packed with interesting information – Minerva

Art of the Byzantine Era

Art of the Byzantine Era

  • Paperback
A scholarly guide to the art of the period – The Daily Telegraph

The Arts in Spain

The Arts in Spain

  • Paperback
Authoritative and ambitious in its chronological span, this comprehensive book encompasses the enormous breadth of the Spanish artistic panorama.

Art of the Celts

Art of the Celts

From 700 BC to the Celtic Revival

  • Paperback
Splendid, precise introduction – The Good Book Guide

Art of the Middle Ages

Art of the Middle Ages

  • Paperback
This new study encompasses the whole period from Early Christian to late Gothic, the whole of Europe from Ireland to Byzantium, and the whole range of art and architecture.

Athenian Black Figure Vases

Athenian Black Figure Vases

  • Paperback
Will undoubtedly become a standard work of reference – Journal of Hellenic Studies

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Archaic Period

A Handbook

  • Paperback
Once more one is grateful to the author for his masterly organization of the material, his light touch and his appreciation of the needs of scholars and students alike – The Times Literary Supplement

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period

Athenian Red Figure Vases: The Classical Period

A Handbook

  • Paperback
Sir John Boardman's account of Athenian vase painting in the fifth and fourth centuries BC

British Painting

British Painting

The Golden Age

  • Paperback
… his insights are dazzling; his analysis of perspective in naïve painting alone makes this a book worth buying – The Times Literary Supplement

A Concise History of Irish Art

A Concise History of Irish Art

  • Paperback
Fulfils a unique role by presenting us with so thorough a discourse and so rewarding a view of this most neglected but most important aspect of our culture – The Irish Press

Early Medieval Art

Early Medieval Art

Carolingian, Ottonian, Romanesque

  • Paperback
Readable, authoritative and comprehensive – The Times Literary Supplement

Early Greek Vase Painting

Early Greek Vase Painting

11th-6th Centuries BC

  • Paperback
Early Greek vases display the craft at its most mathematical, it most colourful, and in its most directly story telling mode. Here is comprehensive coverage of this formative period of variety, competition and experiment.

Five Centuries of British Painting

Five Centuries of British Painting

From Holbein to Hodgkin

  • Paperback
Wilton is a thorough and measured guide… a most useful addition to the World of Art series – The Times Higher Education Supplement