Art History

Revolutionary States : Home Rule and Modern Ireland offers the reader a beautiful presentation of the outstanding exhibition in Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane commemorating the Third Home Rule Bill a hundred years ago.

A boxed collection of works by twelve artists invited to respond to The Golden Bough by James George Frazer as a metaphor for the museum. Multifarious works resulted, bound by a common ambition to shift our understanding of what artwork can be.

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters.

This book presents the activities of fine-art printmakers in Ireland from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day and deals specifically with the foundation of Graphic Studio Dublin in 1960.

The life and times of Irish painter and naturalist Alexander Williams RHA 1846 - 1930

2010 1st Edition Hardback.

A fascinating and sumptuous Large-format book - a ground -breaking monograph on a major 19th-century painter. 1.9kg

Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud are perhaps the last two great exponents of self portraiture. This collection reveals how artists have interrogated the self and showcases rarely seen portraits of artists by artists, offering fascinating insights into how artists portray themselves and how they themselves are perceived.

This anthology presents classic and recent scholarship on Italian art from 1600-1750, highlighting the key debates with which art historians continue to grapple.

Unique Act presents the work of five modern abstract artists: Frederic Matys Thursz, Seán Scully, Carmengloria Morales, Seán Shanahan and Ruth Root. We are introduced to how artists see and think and produce art and how art deals with the world.

Born in Mexico in 1907, Frida Kahlo learned about suffering at an early age. She fell victim to polio at the age of six, and was then seriously hurt in a bus accident at eighteen, resulting in injuries that affected her for the rest of her life.