Manet to Picasso Set

Save £6.96 when you buy this special offer set of four books.

      

Corot to Monet Exhibition Book

  

Richly illustrated, the clean, modern design, concise introductory text and short entries create a delightful and accessible book to accompany the Corot To Monet exhibition at the National Gallery.

    

Includes paintings and oil sketches by Thomas Jones, Richard Bonington, and the Barbizon School painters, as well as early Impressionist landscapes by Claude Monet

    

By the late eighteenth century, the practice of painting outdoors (en plein air) was widespread, especially in Italy,where picturesque views of Tivoli and the Campagna were irresistible to French and British artists.

    

Fifty years later in France, the Barbizon group – including Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Theodore Rousseau and Charles-François Daubigny – eagerly escaped the studio to paint landscapes, rivers and beach scenes of their native land. These painters were a  crucial influence on a new generation of artists who would eventually become known as the Impressionists.

    

Many of these pictures came to the National Gallery through dedicated, if occasionally eccentric, collectors; Sarah Herring's lively text introduces and explains the enduring appeal of these charming small landscapes, both to their original  owners, and to the present day viewer.

    

Free exhibition of French nineteenth-century paintings at the National Gallery, London (July–September 2009)

      

Manet to Picasso

  

This book focuses on 38 works in the National Gallery collection made between 1860 and 1905.

    

Beginning with a short introduction by Christopher Riopelle on the formation of the collection, before discussing each of the chosen works which are arranged chronologically by artist from Manet to Picasso.

    

It includes highlights such as Manet's Corner of a Cafe-Concert, Monet's Water-Lily Pond, Gallen-Kallela's Lake Keitele and Cezanne's Bathers (Les Grandes Baigneuses). Another key painting will be the recently acquired Afternoon in the Tuileries Gardens by Adolph Menzel.

    

Celebrating a remarkable permanent collection that is the envy of museums and galleries around the world, the display will attract significant interest. This book provides an introduction to this great group of paintings.

    

This beautiful book accompanied the National Gallery's special display of its Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, in September 2006 to May 2007.

        

El Greco to Goya

    

The National Gallery has one of the finest collections of Spanish paintings outside Spain, and this book features  nearly all the pictures normally on display. Haunting works by El Greco introduce the Spanish Golden Age of the  seventeenth century.

    

The canvases by Velázquez span his career, with powerful royal portraits, religious works, and the Rokeby Venus, his only surviving depiction of a female nude. Bartolome Murillo – equally popular with British 18th- and 19th-century collectors – is represented by some  exceptional religious and genre paintings, together with his imposing Self Portrait.

     

Other works by Baroque painters, including Ribera and Zurbarán, reveal shifting uses of naturalism to express everything from the  mysteries of faith to the grandeur of royalty to the beauty of the mundane.

    

The later part of the collection includes paintings of wonderful quality, such as Luis Melendez's Still Life with Oranges and Walnuts. Three portraits by Goya, including that of the Duke of Wellington, show the artist's keen ability to probe personality and status, while two small works illuminate his fascination with both contemporary society and the fantastic.

            

Dutch Painting

  

This delightful book is the second in a series of new guides to the National Gallery's permanent collection, published to accompany the exhibition Dutch  Portraits: The Age of Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Following the success of The National Gallery: Manet to Picasso, it focuses on 38 masterpieces of Dutch painting, all made between 1600 and 1740.

     The book begins with an introduction by Marjorie Wieseman that addresses the formation of the collection and development of Dutch painting in what has become known as its Golden Age. Each work is then reproduced full-page, arranged chronologically, and discussed individually in concise, accessible entries.

    

Written by Marjorie E. Wieseman, Curator of Dutch Painting at the National Gallery, London and Elena Greer, Curatorial Assistant at the National Gallery.