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The painter's touch : Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard by Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa

Art in a season of revolution : painters, artisans, and patrons in early America by Lovell, Margaretta M.

Contents: “…Painters and their customers -- The picture in the painting -- The empirical eye : Copley's women and the case of the blue dress -- The remembering eye : Copley's men and the case of Joshua Henshaw -- The family : painterly and social constructions -- The drawing in the painting -- Money, art, family, and the cabinetmakers of Newport.…”
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Antoine Watteau by Posner, Donald

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The exceptional woman : Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun and the cultural politics of art by Sheriff, Mary D.

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Goya : the portraits by Bray, Xavier, Mena, Manuela, Gayford, Thomas, Goudie, Allison

Contents: “…Mena Marques -- Goya: the portraits / Xavier Bray -- Franciso Goya y Lucientes: the making of a portrait painter -- The first portraits (1780-1784) -- Politicians and aristocrats (1785-1788) -- Portraying the Spanish enlightenment (1789-1799) -- First court painter to the king (1799-1808) -- Goya and the Spanish grandees (1803-1806) -- Goya's friends, colleagues and family (1797-1815) -- Liberals and despots (1808-1815) -- Portraits in Goya's later years (1815-1828).…”

On art and artists : an anthology of Diderot's aesthetic thought by Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784

Contents: “…The condition of art -- Criticism -- History -- The countryside -- The portrait -- The type -- Still life -- Diderot in the painter's space -- The averted look: Diderot and the boundaries of representation -- Composition according to Diderot.…”
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Partners in print : artistic collaboration and the ukiyo-e market by Davis, Julie Nelson, 1963-

Contents: “…Introduction: the floating world and its artistic networks -- Teaching the art of painting through print: a master painter, his students, and the illustrated book -- Picturing beauties: print designers, publishers, and a mirror of the Yoshiwara -- Unrolling pictures for the erotic imagination: a designer, his publisher, and the scroll of the sleeve -- Making dogma into comedy: a writer and an illustrator send up religion in a popular book -- Conclusion: reconsidering collaboration and ukiyo art worlds.…”

Portrait of a woman in silk : hidden histories of the British Atlantic world by Anishanslin, Zara

Contents: “…Anne Shippen Willing, 1710-1791 -- "As I am an American": performing colonial merchant power -- Hanging the portrait: the colonial merchant's townhouse -- Emulating colonists: scandal, regality, and sister portraits -- "Tolerably well by the force of genius": Robert Feke, painter. Robert Feke, c. 1707-c. 1751 -- The Bermuda Group in Newport: George Berkeley and Feke's painterly craft -- Painting New Eden in New England: Massachusetts merchants, Milton, and violent refinement -- "'Tis said the arts delight to travel westward": Newport merchants, Redwood Library, and the rise of arts and learning -- Death and rebirth. 1763: Unraveling empire -- Coda: 1791.…”

Mediterranean encounters : artists between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 by Fraser, Elisabeth A. (Elisabeth Ann), 1961-

Contents: “…Skin of nation, body of empire : Louis Dupré in Ottoman Greece ; A painter's renunciation : Delacroix in North Africa -- Postscript.…”

The Club : Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age by Damrosch, Leopold

Engaging the Ottoman empire : vexed mediations, 1690-1815 by O'Quinn, Daniel, 1962-

French suite : a book of essays by Fried, Michael

Romantic capabilities : Blake, Scott, Austen, and the new messages of old media First edition. by Goode, Mike

A revolution on canvas : the rise of women artists in London and Paris, 1760-1830 by Spies-Gans, Paris A.