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Paths to Reform: Things new and old

Paths to Reform traces the fascinating and turbulent history of reform in the Medieval and Early Modern Church from the twelfth through the seventeenth centuries as seen through 40 contemporary manuscripts and a number of printed books. Brought together, these manuscripts – their physical format, their text and illustrations – offer a new historical perspective as well as vivid testimony to the ways in which communities of the faithful practiced their beliefs. More

Sacred Stitches: Ecclesiastical Textiles in the Rothchild Collection

Sacred Stitches accompanies an exhibition that will assemble together for the first time fragments of opulent and unique ecclesiastical textiles drawn from the stored collections at Waddesdon Manor, the astonishing Renaissance-style château that is one of the rare survivors of the splendour of the ‘goût Rothschild’. Dating from c. 1400 to the late 1700s, the textiles were acquired by several members of the Rothschild family, the greatest collectors of the 19th century, who sought the highest quality of workmanship with a keen sense of historical importance. More

FATE, HOPE & CHARITY

Fate, Hope & Charity explores the poignant stories behind the Foundling Hospital tokens. The tokens were often everyday objects such as playing cards, coins or pieces of fabric, left by mothers as identifiers when giving their child to the Hospital’s care. Following a decade of original research, Janette Bright and Dr Gillian Clark bring to light some of the most intriguing stories about the objects, the parents’ decision to give up their baby, and the biographies of the individual foundlings to whom the tokens belonged. Many tokens still have stories that remain untold and these have inspired creative responses from poet and DJ Charlie Dark, author Jackie Kay, historian and author Hallie Rubenhold and artist David Shrigley. More

Russia: A World Apart

A haunting evocation of the ruined country estates of the Russian aristocracy of the 18th and 19th centuries. Revolution, civil war, invasion, anarchy and casual indifference have conspired against many of the grand buildings of Russia’s rich and complex past. While the architectural riches of Moscow and St Petersburg still exist for everyone to see, when the photographer Simon Marsden and author Duncan McLaren entered the Russian countryside, away from the obvious tourist trails, they encountered a very different world... More

Mark Gertler: Works 1912–28

This fully illustrated catalogue accompanies an exhibition celebrating the achievements of Mark Gertler comprising works from 1912 to 1928. The exhibition charts Gertler's career from an early British modernist at the close of the Edwardian era, through his most radical period during the years of the First World War, to the 'return to order' of the 1920s, when Gertler was recognised as a consummate painter with a highly individual vision. More

Giovanni Bellini's Dudley Madonna

The Madonna and Child, also known as the 'Dudley Madonna', was painted in c. 1508 by Giovanni Bellini (Venice, c. 1430–1516), one of the most celebrated of Italian artists. Recognised as an important composition by Bellini in the early 20th century, for a hundred years until its sale at auction in 2012 this picture had hardly ever been seen. This book places the painting within Bellini's career and development even though he was over 75 years old when he painted it. More

Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901

1901 was a momentous and turbulent year for the nineteen-year-old Picasso. He spent the first part of it in Madrid but his sights were firmly set upon becoming a great painter in Paris, the capital of the arts. This fully illustrated catalogue, with essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field of Picasso, tells the remarkable story of Pablo Picasso's breakthrough year – 1901 – as an artist. It brings together an extraordinary group of paintings to explore his rapid artistic development during this single year which launched his career and reputation in Paris. More

Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America

Accompanying a major exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (28 February – 13 May 2013), this book re-evaluates the artistic achievement of Anders Zorn (1860–1920), one of the most significant artists of the Belle Époque but one who is still remarkably understudied. Bringing his subjects to life with broad, quick brushstrokes, Zorn experimented with different subjects and styles, absorbing and developing the latest trends, pushing them further. More

The Harold Samuel Collection: A Guide to the Dutch and Flemish Pictures at the Mansion House

The Harold Samuel Collection is a unique collection of 17th-century paintings from Holland’s Golden Age. Bequeathed to the City of London in 1987 by Lord Samuel of Wych Cross (1912-1987), a wealthy property developer and philanthropist, this remarkable collection of 84 works – the finest collection of Dutch and Flemish art assembled privately in the UK in the last hundred years – enriches the splendour of the interior of the Mansion House, residence of the Lord Mayor of London. More

Peter Lely: A Lyrical Vision

Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680) was Charles II’s Principal Painter and the outstanding artistic figure of Restoration England. When Lely arrived in England in the early 1640s his ambition was to be a painter of narrative scenes and not to work as a portraitist. However, the ‘subject pictures’ did not find favour with many English patrons and he produced less than thirty. As Lely’s friend Richard Lovelace explained, all they wanted was ‘their own dull counterfeits’ or portraits of their mistresses. More