Features ten of Londons most prominent galleries and museums - The British Museum, Victoria and Albert, National Gallery, Dulwich, Wallace Collection, Tate Britain, Courtauld, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy. Showcases paintings, sculptures and objects from the Ancient world to the 21st Century.
English Intervention in the French Wars of Religion
The aim of this study is to establish the scale and importance of English intervention during the French Wars of Religion of the late sixteenth century. The author looks at why and how Elizabeth I intervened, and what were the consequences of this intervention. Elizabeths sword of intervention was double-edged: both benevolent and exploitative.
Three generations, one family, connected by an historic secret. 1917 - Private Daniel Dawkins fights at Messines Ridge and Passchendaele. He writes home to his true-love Joyce, but reveals little of his extreme bravery, his kindness, his loyalty to his comrades and the horrors they experience on the Western Front. 1920 - Captain Peter ......
Bianca Sforza, The Sforziada and Artful Propaganda in Renaissance Milan
The inside story on the Greatest Art Controversy of the 21st Century Presents conclusive evidence why this recently-discovered portrait is a Leonardo masterpiece and expose of the artworld cabal to discredit the picture. The book that turns our knowledge of Leonardo da Vinci upside-down, includes sex, betrayal, murder and blasphemy.
People Like Us takes a deeper look into the lives of eighty people, filled with rich and authentic content. Highlights the unique stories of those featured in the book, all of which have never been revealed before. Includes stories and topics such as: turning blind at the age of thirty, being imprisoned during World War II, being innocent on ......
Perfect for visual art lovers and a music lovers alike. Famous Balkan pop-culturalist with over 30 international exhibitions Text by Bill Gould, best known for playing bass in Faith No More
Memories of a London Art Dealer is the distillation of a lifetime's experience and expertise in the art world. Neither an autobiography nor a traditional memoir, the book consists of reflections, anecdotes, telling conversations, encounters, touches of humour and a choice selection of the triumphs and disasters, heroes and villains ......
Inspirational Professors of Fashion at the Royal College of Art 1948-2014
The four charismatic women who led the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion for nearly seventy years, helped establish a global reputation for British design excellence in ready-to-wear clothing.
During the First World War the old medieval City of Ypres was the centre of one of the most notorious battlefields of war: the Ypres Salient. Today Ypres is generally considered one of the best examples of post-conflict reconstruction. Full of stories of resilience and regeneration, and typical examples of Ypres post-war architecture.
