Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World
A fascinating study of Persia’s interactions and exchanges of influence with ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.
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New and Notable
Flesh and Bones
The Art of Anatomy
Clyfford Still
The Artist’s Materials
Imogen Cunningham
A Retrospective
Living Matter
The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art
The Sun King at Sea
Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France
A Maya Universe in Stone
Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan
The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods
Book of Beasts
The Bestiary in the Medieval World
Rubens in Repeat
The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America
Artemisia Gentileschi
Holbein
Capturing Character
Visualizing Empire
Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation
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Picturing Equality
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Explore Imogen Cunningham’s dedication to feminism and civil rights
“I Will Show Your Lordship What a Woman Can Do”
Sheila Barker’s account reveals an undeniably strong character and confidence distinct from, or perhaps in conjunction with, her practical survival needs.
A Century of Change for Latin American Metropolises, 1830–1930
Podcast
From independence to the modern era in Latin American cities
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The Traveling Camera
Lewis Hine and the Fight to End Child Labor
Photographic
The Life of Graciela Iturbide
If . . .
25th-Anniversary Edition
Maria Sibylla Merian
Artist, Scientist, Adventurer
Cleo and Cornelius
A Tale of Two Cities and Two Kitties
Don’t Let the Beasties Escape This Book!
Thérèse Makes a Tapestry
1 to 10 and Back Again
A Getty Museum Counting Book
Greece! Rome! Monsters!
The Goldfish in the Chandelier
A is for Artist
A Getty Museum Alphabet
An ABC of What Art Can Be
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