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  An exploration of the art, personalities and politics of Baroque Rome seen through the lens of Bernini's elephant carrying an obelisk. Lively, anecdotal and well illustrated.

  An Elephant in Rome: Bernini, The Pope and The Making of the Eternal City

  Loyd Grossman

  Hardback
  £19.99

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  A fine book on the first woman artist of European standing, with special emphasis on her impact in England where she was the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts.

  Angelika Kauffmann

  Bettina Baumgartel

  Hardback
  £35.00

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  Craske's revisionist account of the 'painter of light' casts him in a rather more crepuscular emotional gloaming. Fascinating and deeply researched; illustrated of course.

  Joseph Wright of Derby – Painter of Darkness

  Matthew Craske

  Hardback
  £45.00

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  A study of the beginnings of the idea of the 'modern artist'. Not set in Paris or New York, as you might expect, but London among the students at the Royal Academy between 1769 to 1830.

  Making the Modern Artist – Culture, Class and Art-Educational Opportunity in Romantic Britain

  Martin Myrone

  Hardback
  £45.00

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