New Additions
Colnaghi Journal Vol 4,
$50.00
Colnaghi Studies Journal is produced biannually by the Colnaghi Foundation. Its purpose is to publish texts on significant pre-twentieth-century artworks in the European tradition that have recently come to light or about which new research is underway, as well as on the history of their collection. Texts about artworks should place them within the broader context of the artist’s oeuvre, provide visual analysis and comparative images.
The Museum is featured in the essay "Selling Botticelli to America: Colnaghi, Bernard Berenson and the sale of the Madonna of the Eucharist to Isabella Stewart Gardner" written by Jeremy Howard.
Edited by Stijn Alsteens, et al.174 pages
Published by Colnaghi Foundation, March 2019
Paperback
Great Writers Page Flags
$7.95
We couldn’t wait to design this set of page flags! Our favorite classic authors, Edgar Allen Poe, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, and Oscar Wilde, are bundled together in this all-star collection. For all the book lovers in your life (including you).
Includes 240 stickies per set with 60 flags per figure.
Each page flag measures 2 x .75 inches
Strong Girls Page Flags
$7.95
We couldn't be more proud to feature some of the most inspiring young women in history. Our newest addition to the Classic Characters collection includes: Mulan, Anne Frank, Malala, and Greta Thunberg and shows that courage can come in all shapes, colors, and sizes.
Includes 240 stickies per set with 60 flags per figure.
Each page flag measures 2 x .75 inches
Lady Chatterly's Lover
$20.00
400 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2010
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Villette
$25.00
In time for the 200th anniversary of her birth, a Penguin Hardcover Classics edition of the book many believe to be Charlotte Brontë's crowning achievement
With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels, Charlotte Brontë's last and most autobiographical novel is a powerfully moving study of isolation and the pain of unrequited love.
Edited by Helen M. Cooper
672 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2016
Hardcover
8.1 x 5.4 x 1.6 inches
Moby Dick or, The Whale
$32.00
In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most unforgettable and enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humor, Moby-Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith, and the nature of perception.
This edition contains the definitive text of Moby-Dick based on the Northwestern-Newberry edition. It also features an introduction by Andrew Delbanco and explanatory commentary by Tom Quirk.
Written by Herman Melville
720 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2015
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Crime and Punishment
$30.00
720 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2018
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Anna Karenina
$30.00
Tolstoy’s epic novel of love, destiny and self-destruction, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition from Penguin Classics. Anna Karenina seems to have everything – beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalizes society and family alike and soon brings jealously and bitterness in its wake. Contrasting with this tale of love and self-destruction is the vividly observed story of Levin, a man striving to find contentment and a meaning to his life – and also a self-portrait of Tolstoy himself.
Written by Leo Tolstoy, Translated by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
1440 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2017
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Clover Post Earrings
$72.00
Clover (Trifolium) is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the pea family. The clover typically has three leaves and dense heads of small flowers. Clover are ecologically important as they regulate nitrogen in soil. Honeybees use clover as a honey source. Some species of butterflies gain nutrients from clover as well. And maybe there’s one with a fourth leaf.
The Clover leaves are cast in hand patinated bronze. The posts are 925 silver.
Earrings measure 0.5"L
Flying Too Close to the Sun: Myths in Art from Classical to Contemporary
$59.95
The first major survey to reveal the ways in which Classical mythology has inspired art throughout the last 2,500 years
From the films of Woody Allen and the Coen Brothers to Margaret Atwood's books and Arcade Fire's songs, Classical Greek and Roman myths continue to be a source of cultural inspiration. The struggles of heroes, both triumphant and tragic, with gods, monsters, and fate, exert a particular grip on our imagination. Visual artists have long expressed and reworked these foundational stories. This is the first book to unite myth-inspired artworks by ancient, modern, and contemporary artists, from Botticelli and Caravaggio to Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst.
By James Cahill
264 pages
Published by Phaidon Press, 2018
Hardcover
10.25 x 1.13 x 11.75 inches
Forget-Me-Not Triple Flower Cluster Post Earrings
$85.00
Myosotis, more commonly known as Forget Me Not, has a rich history and storied symbolism behind its humble appearance. It grows an abundance of small blue flowers that are a symbol of remembrance of true and undying love. The common name "forget-me-not" was calqued from the German Vergissmeinnicht, and first used in English in 1398 AD by King Henry IV. Many stories and myths surround the plant, including one about two lovers walking along the Danube River and seeing the bright blue blossoms for the first time. The man retrieves the flowers for the woman, but he was swept away by the river and tells his lover not to forget him as he floated away.
The Forget-Me-Not Cluster Stud Earrings are cast in hand-patinated bronze and features three pale blue glass flowers with 24kt gold plated pollen stems.
Earrings measure 0.56" L x 0.64" W
Forget-Me-Not Brooch Pin
$182.00
Myosotis, more commonly known as Forget Me Not, has a rich history and storied symbolism behind its humble appearance. It grows an abundance of small blue flowers that are a symbol of remembrance of true and undying love. The common name "forget-me-not" was calqued from the German Vergissmeinnicht, and first used in English in 1398 AD by King Henry IV. Many stories and myths surround the plant, including one about two lovers walking along the Danube River and seeing the bright blue blossoms for the first time. The man retrieves the flowers for the woman, but he was swept away by the river and tells his lover not to forget him as he floated away.
The Forget-Me-Not Pin is cast in hand patinated bronze, accented with white freshwater pearls and cast glass flowers. The branch on the left side is articulated.
Pin measures 2" L x 2" W
Paintings from Murano by Paolo Veronese
$18.00
A new undertaking by Venetian Heritage and Bulgari for Venetian art offers the occasion to rediscover two paintings by Paolo Veronese, a great master of Venetian Renaissance art.
Two paintings by Paolo Veronese, Saint Jerome in the Desert and Saint Agatha in Prison, dating to 1566 and located in the church of San Pietro Martire in Murano, have been recently restored, together with their seventeenth-century gilded frames. Before the restoration, the paintings were in bad condition, very dark and scarcely readable, due to the application of varnishes that had oxidized over the years. The rich and unusual seventeenth-century frames, sculpted and gilded, were also in bad condition. Both works are relatively unknown because of their position in a lesser-known location and the poor condition they were in before the current restoration. The restoration has brought back to life the brilliant colors of the canvases and the vigorous gilded carvings of the frames, giving also the occasion to study their provenance and commission as well as their conservation history.
96 pages
Published by Rizzoli, 2018
Paperback
6.5 x 8.7 inches
War and Peace
$30.00
At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever. The stories of quixotic Pierre, cynical Andrey, and impetuous Natasha interweave with a huge cast, from aristocrats and peasants, to soldiers and Napoleon himself. In War and Peace, Tolstoy entwines grand themes—conflict and love, birth and death, free will and fate—with unforgettable scenes of nineteenth-century Russia, to create a magnificent epic of human life in all its imperfection and grandeur.
Written by Leo Tolstoy
1440 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2017
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
King Bird
$37.00
Standing cast iron bird sculpture with a gold leaf finish. Perfect for the art and nature lover.
Measures 8" x 2.75" x 4.75"Made of cast iron and gold leaf
Rubens
$16.00
There are over 1,000 cataloged works by Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), the 16th-century flag bearer for Baroque drama, movement, and sensuality. This essential introduction takes in the most important works from this astonishingly prolific oeuvre to explore Rubens’s influences and innovations, and his remarkable visual, and art historical, impact.
The richly illustrated survey takes in Rubens’s portraits, landscapes, and historical paintings, as well as his famed and bountiful nudes. Along the way, we examine the artist’s astonishing technique and his deft ability to depict narrative in a compelling and legible visual form, whether an erotic mythological scene or a tender biblical story. This remarkable artistic bravura is placed in context both within Rubens’s long art historical legacy through Van Dyck, Velázquez, and beyond, and his other talents as a classical scholar, diplomat, and knight.
96 pages
Published by Taschen, 2017
Hardcover
8.3 x 10.2 inches
Raphael
$16.00
Christof Thoenes presents an essential introduction to supreme Renaissance master, Raphael Santi. With approximately one hundred illustrations and a detailed, chronological summary, this book explores how Raphael painted his way to legendary greatness in just two decades of work. Noting highlights from his prolific output, it presents the mastery of figures and forms that secured his place among the most esteemed artists of all time.
Written by Christof Thoenes96 pages
Published by Taschen, 2016
Hardcover
8.3 x 10.2 inches
The Odyssey
$27.00
The epic tale of Odysseus and his ten-year journey home after the Trojan War forms one of the earliest and greatest works of Western literature. Confronted by natural and supernatural threats – shipwrecks, battles, monsters and the implacable enmity of the sea-god Poseidon – Odysseus must use his wit and native cunning if he is to reach his homeland safely and overcome the obstacles that, even there, await him.
Written by Homer
416 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2010
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Tenant of Wildfell Hall
$24.00
Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham, a beautiful and secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son. He is quick to offer Helen his friendship, but when her reclusive behavior becomes the subject of local gossip and speculation, Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced. Anne Brontë’s bold novel is an exploration of a woman’s struggle for creative freedom and domestic independence that caused a scandal upon publication and continues to speak powerfully almost 170 years afters its publication.
Written Anne Brontë
576 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2016
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Vanity Fair
$26.00
William Makepeace Thackeray's classic tale of class, society, and corruption, soon to be an Amazon mini-series starring Olivia Cooke
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colorful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design In William Thackeray's Vanity Fair, no one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles - military and domestic - are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honorable figure in this corrupt world is Dobbin with his devotion to Amelia, bringing pathos and depth to Thackeray's gloriously satirical epic of love and social adventure.
Edited by John Carey
912 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2013
Hardcover
8.1 x 5.3 x 2.1 inches
The Jungle Books
$23.00
The story of Mowgli, the abandoned “man-cub” who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India, is one of the greatest literary myths ever created. As he embarks on a series of thrilling escapades, Mowgli encounters such unforgettable creatures as the bear Baloo, the graceful black panther Bagheera and Shere Khan, the tiger with the blazing eyes. Other animal stories in The Jungle Books range from the dramatic battle between good and evil in “Rikki-tikki-tav” to the macabre comedy, “The Undertakers.” With The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling drew on ancient beast fables, Buddhist philosophy, and memories of his Anglo-Indian childhood to create a rich, symbolic portrait of man and nature, and an eternal classic of childhood. This edition contains both of Kipling’s Jungle Books, as well as “In the Rukh,” the story that introduced readers to Mowgli.
Written by Rudyard Kipling
488 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2015
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Hound of Baskervilles
$21.00
Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end.
By Arthur Conan Doyle
240 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2010
Hardcover
7.9 x 5.3 x 0.9 inches
The Iliad
$25.00
The Iliad is the first and the greatest literary achievement of Greek civilization—the cornerstone of Western culture and an epic poem without rival in world literature. The story centers on the critical events in the last year of the Trojan War, which lead to Achilles's killing of Hector and the fall of Troy. But Homer’s theme is not simply war or heroism. With compassion and humanity, he presents a universal and tragic view of the world: human life lived under the shadow of suffering and death set against a vast and largely unpitying divine background.
Written by Homer, Translated by E. V. Rieu
560 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2015
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Canterbury Tales
$25.00
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of chivalric romances, moral allegories, and low farce. A storytelling competition between a group of pilgrims from all walks of life is the occasion for a series of tales that range from the Knight’s account of courtly love and the ebullient Wife of Bath’s Arthurian legend, to the ribald anecdotes of the Miller and the Cook. Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation is rendered with consummate skill to retain all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English.
Written by Geoffrey Chaucer
528 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2015
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
The Relaxated Reading Woman Notecard Set
$18.95
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. —Arab proverb
Whether routes to escape or paths to enlightenment, books create enticing worlds that can so absorb the reader that other realities fade away. A painting of a woman immersed in a book suggests a story of its own: the woman is at peace, or not; perhaps she is silently moved or thrilled by the words she reads. Is she stealing a moment from daily routine to indulge her love of literature? Or is she studiously searching the pages for illumination? Is this book the one that will change her life? Little wonder that the reading woman has appeared in art for hundreds of years. She is a beautiful enigma, an untold tale, a fragment of a life momentarily set free from its long, complex story. Contains five each of the following notecards: Reading by Alberto Pisa, Alice in Wonderland by George Dunlop Leslie, A Russian Folk Tale by Leonid and Olga Tikhomirov, Woman Reclining on a Bench by Carl Olof Larsson.
Set includes 20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with soft white envelopes in a decorative box
Printed in full color on recycled paper using high-quality 250 gsm cardstock with soy-based inks
Box measures 5.375 x 7.375 x 1.5 inches
Cards measure 5 x 7 inches
Paolo Veronese and the Practice of Painting in Late Renaissance Venice
$75.00
One of the premier artists of Renaissance Venice, Paolo Veronese (1528–1588) enjoyed a successful career creating splendid and sophisticated paintings for an elite clientele. Focusing on Veronese’s materials, workshop organization, and remarkably varied techniques, this important book provides a rich examination of the artist’s painting practice and how it developed throughout his career—from his initial training in Verona through the height of his fame in Venice. Diana Gisolfi’s multidisciplinary approach brings together information on the physical qualities of Veronese’s works discovered during recent conservation projects, a fresh look at contemporary texts from the 16th century, and a nuanced understanding of the world of Venetian artists and their patrons. This innovative approach elucidates the working life of Veronese and his circle of contemporaries in new and fascinating ways.
Written by Diana Gisolfi352 pages
Published by Yale Books, 2017
Hardcover
9.5 x 11.25 inches
Titian: Vanitas
$55.00
Beginning with the analysis of two works by Titian (ca. 1488–1576) preserved in the Czech Republic―the so-called “Vanitas” belonging to the Prague Castle Collections, a portrait of a beautiful young woman usually interpreted as an allegory of vanity, and the gruesome “Flaying of Marsyas” housed in the Archbishop’s Palace in Kromeriz―Titian: Vanitas deals with the artistic and existential life of the Cadore-born painter and presents the two paintings in the context of Titian’s broader production. This volume, edited by Lionello Puppi and Serena Baccaglini and including texts from Giorgio Reolon, Barbara Putova, Silvia Miscellaneo and Antonio Genova, delves into the Renaissance artist’s process and self-presentation, from the preparation of models and the production of replicas to the success of the artist and the intention and manipulations of his self-portraits.
Edited by Lionello Puppi and Serena Baccaglini192 pages
Published by Silvana Editoriale, 2017
Paperback
9 x 11 inches
Mansfield Park
$25.00
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally. During her uncle's absence in Antigua, the Crawford's arrive in the neighborhood bringing with them the glamour of London life and a reckless taste for flirtation. Mansfield Park is considered Jane Austen's first mature work and, with its quiet heroine and subtle examination of social position and moral integrity, one of her most profound.
Written by Jane Austen, edited by Kathryn Sutherland; illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith, introduction by Tony Tanner
560 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2012
Hardcover
5.3 x 1.4 x 8 inches
Spanish Skirt
$195.00
Fernandez's designs return to ancestral heritage, working with the roots of the Mexican dress form and its geometric conception. The brand has gained international acclaim for their approach to preserving the rich cultural heritage of Mexico’s indigenous communities and transforming it into beautiful clothing, textiles and housewares. Their contemporary take on handcrafted methods is proving ethical fashion can be striking, avant-garde and forward-looking.
One sizeHandmade in Mexico
Returns
If your ordered garment isn't to your liking, we are happy to accept returns. Please contact shipping@isgm.org to initiate a return. We will send you a pre-paid return label. Provided that the garment is returned in its original condition, we will issue a full refund.
Gold Leaf Frame
$36.00
These gold leaf mirror frames are created with a timeless design that will never cease to surround your memories with beauty and elegance.
Large frame measures 6.25" x 8.25"
Medium frame measures 5" x 6.25"
Small frame measures 4" x 5"
Brown Barragon Jacket
$220.00
Carla Fernández (Artist-in-Residence, 2013) is a Mexico City-based fashion label inspired by the geometrics and textile richness of Mexico. The brand has gained international acclaim for their approach to preserving the rich cultural heritage of Mexico’s indigenous communities and transforming it into beautiful clothing, textiles and housewares. Their contemporary take on handcrafted methods is proving ethical fashion can be striking, avant-garde and forward-looking.
Carla Fernandez's designs return to ancestral heritage, working with the roots of the Mexican dress form and its geometric conception. This historic theme influences the brand's "square root" system, found in many Carla Fernandez pieces.
Measures 15.5" shoulder to shoulder; 11.75" sleeve to shoulder; 21.5" neck to hem with 19.5" fringe
Machine wash only
Returns
If your ordered garment isn't to your liking, we are happy to accept returns. Please contact shipping@isgm.org to initiate a return. We will send you a pre-paid return label. Provided that the garment is returned in its original condition, we will issue a full refund.
Turner's Modern and Ancient Ports
$45.00
Widely considered Britain’s greatest painter, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) is best known for his light-filled landscapes and seascapes. A relentless traveler, Turner often turned his artistic attention to the theme of modern and ancient ports. In the mid-1820s, Turner exhibited two monumental, and controversial, paintings of ports: Cologne and Dieppe. Shocking for their intense luminosity and yellow tonality, as well as for Turner’s unorthodox handling of paint, these works marked a transition in the artist’s career as he moved away from naturalism and toward a new, poetic topography.
This in-depth study of these two seminal paintings also addresses a wide selection of Turner’s works in both oil and watercolor from the 1820s, placing them in the context of radical changes in British social and economic structures taking place at the time. Drawing from period travel accounts, contemporary critical commentary, and new technical analyses of Turner’s work, this magnificently illustrated book brings a fresh, new perspective to the pivotal middle years of Turner’s career.
Art as Therapy
$19.95
Two authorities on popular culture reveal the ways in which art can enhance mood and enrich lives - now available in paperback
This passionate, thought-provoking, often funny, and always-accessible book proposes a new way of looking at art, suggesting that it can be useful, relevant, and therapeutic. Through practical examples, the world-renowned authors argue that certain great works of art have clues as to how to manage the tensions and confusions of modern life. Chapters on love, nature, money, and politics show how art can help with many common difficulties, from forging good relationships to coming to terms with mortality.
Written by Alain de Botton & John Armstrong240 pages
Published by Phaidon Press, 2016
Paperback
7.75 x 5.13 inches
Bleak House
$29.00
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being devoured by legal costs; Esther Summerson, a ward of court, whose parentage is a source of deepening mystery; the menacing lawyer Tulkinghorn; the determined sleuth Inspector Bucket; and even Jo, the destitute little crossing-sweeper. A savage, but often comic, indictment of a society that is rotten to the core, Bleak House is one of Dickens’s most ambitious novels, with a range that extends from the drawing rooms of the aristocracy to the poorest of London slums.
Written by Charles Dickens
1088 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2011
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Ballet Class Stickers
$1.99
Aspiring ballet stars will fall in love with this appealing little sticker celebration, which serves not only as a source of decorative sticker fun but also as an accurate and entertaining guide to ballet positions. Twenty full-color peel-and-apply illustrations depict girls and boys in traditional ballet outfits correctly performing an arabesque, a sissonne, grand battement, grand jeté, pas de chat, pirouette, brisé vole, attitude penché (with partner), pas de bourrée, and more. Steps are identified and explained on the inside back cover. Sure to delight and inspire ballet stars of the future, these enchanting images will also add colorful touches to mirrors, windows, letters, lunch boxes, and other personal items.
4.2 x 5.75 inches4 pages
Woman in White
$22.00
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright’s eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his ‘charming’ friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism.
Written by Wilkie Collins, Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
720 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2010
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Metamorphoses
$26.00
Ovid’s sensuous and witty poetry brings together a dazzling array of mythological tales, ingeniously linked by the idea of transformation—often as a result of love or lust—where men and women find themselves magically changed into new and sometimes extraordinary beings. Beginning with the creation of the world and ending with the deification of Augustus, Ovid interweaves many of the best-known myths and legends of Ancient Greece and Rome, including Daedalus and Icarus, Pyramus and Thisbe, Pygmalion, Perseus and Andromeda, and the fall of Troy. Erudite but lighthearted, dramatic yet playful, the Metamorphoses has influenced writers and artists throughout the centuries from Shakespeare and Titian to Picasso and Ted Hughes.
This edition includes David Raeburn’s modern verse translation, an introduction by Denis Feeney, and other features to help readers fully appreciate Ovid’s epic.
Written by Ovid
768 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2016
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
David Copperfield
$30.00
This is the novel Dickens regarded as his “favourite child” and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experiences from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the ‘umble Uriah Heep, along with Mr. Micawber, a portrait of Dickens’s own father that evokes a mixture of love, nostalgia, and guilt.
Written by Charles Dickens
1024 pages
Published by Penguin Classics, 2016
Hardcover
5 x 7.75 inches
Romeo & Juliet: A BabyLit Counting Primer
$9.99
Get swept away by Little Master Shakespeare’s tale of two star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet: A BabyLit Counting Primer. Count friends, kisses, love letters, and roses in this charming retelling of Shakespeare’s famous story of young love. Since parting from such a lovely little book will certainly bring feelings of sweet sorrow, you may find yourself re-reading 'till it be 'morrow!
By Jennifer Adams, illustrated by Alison Oliver
22 pages
Published by Gibbs Smith, 2011
Board book
6.88 x 0.59 x 6.88 inches
Rembrandts Changing Impressions
$39.95
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) was restlessly experimental in his printmaking; he manipulated his copperplates in unprecedented ways in order to achieve an image that was often in flux. Rembrandt was the first artist to treat the print medium as a means of crafting visibly changing images, even as his prints were increasingly received in the market as finished works in their own right. Rembrandt’s Changing Impressions, published to accompany an exhibition at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, considers this aspect of Rembrandt’s art, and its position in the 17th-century print market, through the comprehensive exploration of 18 of his most dramatically altered works―the first time in more than four decades that such an investigation has been undertaken. Each print’s multiple impressions are displayed side by side, giving readers the opportunity to examine their range, power and nuance.
By Robert Fucci with foreword by David Freedberg
156 pages
Published by Walther König, 2016
Paperback
8.3 x 0.7 x 11 inches
Adam and Eve Magnet
$6.00
Adam and Eve
Follower of Lucas Cranach the Elder
16th century
oil on panel
It is the moment of temptation. Adam holds one apple to his thigh and with his right hand takes another from Eve. In the distance to the left they reappear in miniature, Adam holding up a garment in shame before the Almighty. Behind them the terrestrial Paradise unfolds itself, the creatures browsing on the banks of its winding river.
2.5 x 3.5 inches
Made in the USA
In the Dressing Room Magnet
$6.00
In the Dressing Room
Louis Kronberg
1910
Pastel on canvas
Kronberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1872. He studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, at the Art Students' League and at Julian's in Paris. Kronberg was keenly interested in the stage and painted many prominent theater people. Late in her life, Kronberg became Mrs. Gardner's friend and assisted her in several of her last purchases.
2.5 x 2.5 inches
Made in the USA
Songbirds Boxed Notecards
$18.95
Artist and naturalist John James Audubon made history with his monumental work The Birds of America.
Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) but raised in France, Audubon arrived in America at eighteen. He began to study and draw the birds on his family’s plantation, first pursuing a life as a businessman before turning to art full time. He eventually traveled throughout the country in an effort to document its birds, and his resulting life-size watercolors became the basis for a series of hand-colored engravings. In all, 435 prints documenting more than one thousand American birds were published in batches and sent to subscribers from 1827 to 1838. This original series, few of which survive in entirety, is often called the Havell edition after Robert Havell Jr., Audubon’s primary engraver.
Audubon was not the first to attempt to document all of America’s birds, but his effort has had the most lasting impact. His images, full of drama, set a new standard for ornithological art.
Contains 5 each of the following images:
Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, 1827
Meadow Lark, 1832
Rathbone Warbler, 1829
White-throated Sparrow, 1827
20 blank notecards (5 each of 4 designs) with envelopes in a decorative box
News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive
$45.00
News Art: Manipulated Photographs from the Burns Archive presents the unexplored visual history of the melding of art, photography, and journalism. It is the first work to document the fascinating combination of art and photography necessary to achieve accurate copy or story emphasis in newspapers. These images from 1900-1960 illustrate the range of art enhancement-from simple outlining or airbrushing to complete overpainting. They are all individual creations, one-of-a-kind photographs. Even if other newspapers used a copy of the same photograph, as was often the case, the artistic preparation was unique. The subjects are as varied as our world: crime scenes, world events, social and business personalities, and human interest stories. All were important in their time and some stand as timeless icons.
One of the characteristics of collecting art is the concept of owning an "original" work. These hand-painted news photographs offer collectors that opportunity in a photographic field that is still available and open to discovery. Connoisseurs of subjects such as crime, sports, and theater can find powerful and unique images to expand the depth of their collections. News Art will serve as a guide to these fascinating photographs, providing curators and collectors a primary resource for comparison, identification, and rarity.
128 pages
Published by powerHouse Books, 2009
Hardcover
9.3 x 11.1 inches
Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory
$45.00
It has become conventional to think of urbanism and landscape as opposing one another—or to think of landscape as merely providing temporary relief from urban life as shaped by buildings and infrastructure. But, driven in part by environmental concerns, landscape has recently emerged as a model and medium for the city, with some theorists arguing that landscape architects are the urbanists of our age. In Landscape as Urbanism, one of the field’s pioneers presents a powerful case for rethinking the city through landscape.
Charles Waldheim traces the roots of landscape as a form of urbanism from its origins in the Renaissance through the twentieth century. Growing out of progressive architectural culture and populist environmentalism, the concept was further informed by the nineteenth-century invention of landscape architecture as a “new art” charged with reconciling the design of the industrial city with its ecological and social conditions. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as urban planning shifted from design to social science, and as urban design committed to neotraditional models of town planning, landscape urbanism emerged to fill a void at the heart of the contemporary urban project.
Generously illustrated, Landscape as Urbanism examines works from around the world by designers ranging from Ludwig Hilberseimer, Andrea Branzi, and Frank Lloyd Wright to James Corner, Adriaan Geuze, and Michael Van Valkenburgh. The result is the definitive account of an emerging field that is likely to influence the design of cities for decades to come.
Written by Charles Waldheim216 pages
Published by Princeton University Press, 2016
Hardcover
7 x 9.5 inches
The Victorian Scrap Album
$19.95
In this time of High Tech computer games for children it is a pleasure to come across a book that gives a simple alternative that both amuses and educates. Scrap Albums were very popular in the 19th century, many of the activities in them have been almost forgotten about, such as thumb prints and collecting skeleton leaves to name but two, which will help widen children's interest. This album was put together for the Pollock's Toy Museum in the late 1970s, the main change being the cover design.
Published by Pryor Publications48 pages in three different colors, 4 pages in four colors
Paperback
11 x 8.5 inches
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