Canova and His World Set within the social

Set within the social

hand-held objects

illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice

Marianne North: A Victorian Painter for the 21st Century situates North both as an unconventional botanical painter and as a technically progressive artist who melded differing stylistic approaches

Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art is an original work which argues that the eighteenth-century Scottish philosophy of moral sense played a central role in shaping ideas explored by figures such as Cézanne and Monet over one hundred years later

Canova and His World Set within the socialThis kaleidoscopic study of Antonio Canova (1757 1822), one of the most celebrated sculptors of the Neoclassical era, reconsiders his life, work and artistic legacy in the wake of the two hundredth anniversary of his death. Pestilli here examines how critics such as Carl Ludwig Fernow and Quatremre de Quincy critically shaped both Canovas work and its reception and delves into the striking similarities between Canova and his renowned predecessor, Gian