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Catalogue >Forthcoming Titles Forthcoming books from Philip Wilson Publishers. Please note that publication dates and other details may be subject to change. Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze Edited Denise Allen and Peta Motture This scholarly catalogue accompanies The Frick Collection's Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze, the first monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Briosco, called Riccio. Although Riccio is acknowledged to be one of the greatest bronze sculptors of the Renaissance, he is still understudied, and the last monograph dedicated to him dates from 1927. Current Riccio scholarship has tended to be narrowly focused, and suffers from the presupposition that Riccio was primarily an antiquarian whose sculptures satisfied the erudite tastes of a closed circle of Paduan humanist-collectors. Andrea Riccio: Renaissance Master of Bronze dramatically challenges these outdated perceptions. The catalogue features essays by the organizing curators and leading scholars on Riccio's life and career, Riccio and the small bronze as art form, as well as a technical study of Riccio's casting technique. It includes detailed scholarly entries for each sculpture and is richly illustrated with all new photography. By providing a cogent image of Riccio's autograph production, this catalogue offers an essential first step for future Riccio studies. 336 pages/ 275 x 214 mm/ 240 colour illustrations/ Paperback and Hardback EAN: 9780-8566-7656-7 Publication due May 2008 The Dutch Italianates: 17th Century Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, London by Ian Dejardin Throughout the 17th century a steady stream of Dutch painters made the arduous journey to Italy, the acknowledged 'home of art'. Where artists of other nationalities studied the great masters of the Renaissance and the contemporary painters of the Baroque, the Dutch were electrified by the magic of Italy itself - its light, its people, its colours and its landscape. In their paintings, mostly produced back in Holland, they recorded the glittering distances of the Roman campagna, the ruins of earlier civilisations, and the colourful characters of the streets and countryside. 112 pages/ 210 x 240 mm/ approx. 60 colour illustrations/ Hardback EAN: 9780 85667 657 4 Publication due July 2008 Online price: £14.00 / €21.00 Hugely popular in their own time, and influential throughout the 18th century, the 'Dutch Italianates' fell out of favour in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, for Noel Desenfans and Sir Francis Bourgeois, the founders of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, artists like Nicolaes Berchem, Karel Du Jardin, Philips Wouwermans, Aelbert Cuyp and Adam Pynacker were names to mention in the same breath as Rembrandt and Ruisdael. Since Dulwich's foundation, the collection of Dutch Italianate paintings has been one of the glories of the Gallery. This selection celebrates the sheer beauty of the Dutch Italianate vision, and the virtuosity, observation and humour of these remarkable artists, while also telling the fascinating story of Dulwich Picture Gallery itself, and the remarkable men (and one woman) who founded it. Delhi's Red Fort by the Yamuna N.L. Batra This book presents the story of the imposing fort of red sandstone built by the Mughal emperor Shahjahan (1628-58) in Delhi (or Dilli, as it is commonly known to Indians). Originally known by the name Qila-i-Mubarak - the Fortunate or Auspicious Citadel - its construction began in April 1639 and was completed in 1648, though over the years its character has changed accoring to the uses to which it has been put. Declared a world heritage site in 1998, the Red Fort is a place of tremendous beauty as well as one that is steeped in national history: the mutineers defended it fiercely against the British during the 1857 uprising; the first of the historic 1945 trials of certain high-ranking Indian National Army soldiers was held there; and two years later, on 15 August 1947, when Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru unfurled independent India's flag from its ramparts, the Red Fort became a lasting symbol of India's independence. The aim of the book is to focus on both the architectural and the historical features of this great monument. It includes detailed information about the fort's intricate architecture, its deterioration and subsequent restoration, and structures that were originally part of it but since have disappeared; as well as information about the political, social and economic conditions that prevailed during the reigns of the various rulers who have used it. N.L. Batra, a civil engineer, is a faculty member of numerous institutions connected with monuments and their preservation. 180 pages / 295 x 230 mm / approx 135 colour illustrations / hardback ISBN 978-0-85667-653-6 Publication imminent pre order now The Word is Sacred, Sacred is the Word - The Indian Manuscript Tradition B.N. Goswamy Manuscripts illustrate multiple aspects of a nation's identiy - its history, its thought, its imagination and, not least, its will to preserve these things for posterity. The manuscripts which appear in this book come from all corners of India from the most important public and private collections and span a period of almost two millenia of Indian cultural history. A range of theoretical systems, scripts, languages, materials used in the creation of manuscripts, and exquisite calligraphies, illuminations and illustrations are all explored in such a way as to produce a lasting impression of India as a multicultural society that holds knowledge and knowledge systems in high regard. The book was originally commissioned to accompany an exhibition of manuscripts put together for the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst and dispalyed as part of the India Guest of Honour programme at the Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2006, and many of thise manuscripts are reproduced here in colour. B. N. Goswamy is professor emeritus of art history at the Panjab University, Chandigarh. 204 pages / 280 x 225 mm / approx. 115 colour illustrations / hardback ISBN 978-0-85667-654-3 Publication imminent pre order now The Art of Ancient Greece Edited by Sabine Albersmeier With contributions from Amalia Avramidou, Wendy E. Closterman, Helene Coccagna, Angeliki Kokkinou, Leight Lieberman, Michael Maaß, John H. Oakley, Timothy Phin, Alan Shapiro, Allison Surtees A major collection of ancient Greek art, owned by Baltimore businessman Henry Walters until his death in 1931, is presented here in this lavishly illustrated volume. The collection, now housed at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, includes some fine and historically important pieces: beautiful and enigmatic Cycladic idols which represent some of the only material artifacts of a culture about which we know very little; rare sculpture from the high Classical period which continues to define our ideals of the human body; major examples of all the various schools of pottery design and decoration; Roman copies of Greek sculpture and ceramics otherwise lost forever; the gorgeous and intricate jewellery of the Olbia Treasure. The collection is presented in chronological order with an introductory essay for each period, contextualizing the work and tracing the development of artistic techniques and themes. Each piece is then discussed individually and in comparison to other known pieces, to bring out its distinct features and to emphasize its importance for our understanding of the customs and values of the period. These lucid and scholarly analyses enable the reader to appreciate the depth of cultural wealth embodied in this magnificent collection. About the author Sabine Albersmeier is associate curator of ancient art at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 208 pages / 270 x 203 mm / approx. 157 colour illustrations / hardback / ISBN 978-0-85667-643-7 Publication due April 2008 Fernando Gallego and His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo Paintings from the Collection of the University of Arizona Museum of Art Edited by Barbara C. Anderson, Amanda W. Dotseth and Mark A. Roglán One of the most important artworks produced in late fifteenth-century Spain is the group of twenty-six panels from the altarpiece of the cathedral of Ciudad Rodrigo, Castile. The panels rank among the most beautiful and iconographically ambitious works by two of Castile's great late medieval painters, Fernando Gallego and the virtually unknown Master Bartolomé. All twenty-six panels are part of the Samuel H. Kress Collection and were given to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson in 1957. This major publication sheds new light on the altarpiece and its context and includes essays on the physical life of the altarpiece itself; Fernando Gallego and the Hispano-Flemish tradition in Spain; Master Bartolomé and millennialism in late fifteenth-century Castile; the infra-red reflectography, pigment and medium analysis of the panels; and the role of prints in the altarpiece. These essays together highlight the individual techniques and workshop practices within the context of the cosmopolitan communities of gothic Castile. Full catalogue entries for each of the panels complete the work. The project represents a ground-breaking international collaboration between institutions and scholars headed by the Meadows Museum in close collaboration with the University of Arizona Museum of Art, the Getty Research Institute, and the Kimbell Art Museum whose conservation studio is overseeing the technical analysis of the panels. Among the scholars contributing their expertise to the project are authorities on Spanish art and conservation, including: Mark A. Roglán (Meadows Museum), Barbara C. Anderson (Getty Research Institute), Claire Barry (Kimbell Art Museum), Amanda W. Dotseth (Meadows Museum), Pilar Silva Maroto (Prado Museum), Michael Schilling (Getty Research Institute) and Inge Fielder (Art Institute of Chicago). Major funding for this publication, has been given by The Meadows Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. Dr Barbara C. Anderson is head of exhibitions at the Getty Research Institute and consulting curator for Spanish and Latin American Materials. Amanda W. Dotseth is assistant curator at the Meadows Museum. Dr Mark A. Roglán is director of the Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University. 336 pages / 280 x 248 mm / 103 colour and 67 monochrome illustrations / hardback / ISBN 978-0-85667-651-2 Publication due April 2008 Croatia from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance - A Cultural Survey Volume Two of 'Croatia and Europe' Editor in Chief: Ivan Supicic This volume presents forty essays charting the period from the thirteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century written by the most eminent specialists in Croatia under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. This period in the history of Croatia is little known even in Europe and Croatia is shown to be one of the oldest European cultures dating from Medieval times. Despite its geographical diversity, reaching across the Adriatic into Italy, and to the countries of Eastern Europe, Croatia retained its very distinct ethnic and cultural identity. About 800 pages ISBN 978-0-085667-624-6 EAN 9780856676246 Publication due April 2008   Online price: £58.00 / €87.00 The book is arranged, not as a chronological sequence, but as a mosaic covering every aspect of Croatian culture: political, social, economic, religious, cultural, artistic and scientific. In an innovative, detailed and readable way the forty authors have created a balanced picture of what was happening during this most important period. Richly illustrated with colour plates, maps, plans, charts and diagrams, the book provides a major resource for all those seeking to gain a broader understanding of the development of European culture from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.