National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

David Alan Brown

"Illustrated ... volume of paintings, sculpture, medals, and drawings celebrates the extraordinary flowering of female portraiture, mainly in Florence, beginning in the latter half of the fifteenth century ... 97 color plates, 76 black-and-white illustrations"--Dustjacket.

Leonardo's Ginevra De' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women

Virtue and Beauty

Raphael and America

Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516) boasts a long career that left an indelible mark on Venetian painting. Vasari and other early writers failed to distinguish Bellini's late works from the rest of his output. Focused on Titian as the quintessential "old age" artist, subsequent writers have also paid little attention to Bellini's late work as a separate phase of his career. Bellini did not choose the subjects of his last pictures, which were stipulated by his patrons, but instead relied more and more on assistants; his decision to undertake and personally conceive and execute them points to a special commitment on his part to their creation. The Feast of the Gods (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC), dated 1514, and other works that follow it, display a much expanded range of subject matter and a new degree of inventiveness. New technical investigations have played a key role in grasping the novelty of Bellini's last works. The artist's great mythological canvas in Washington, in particular, has been the subject of a recent scientific investigation using the latest multi-spectral scanning technology. This study, undertaken by the scientific lab at the National Gallery of Art, marks a major advance in the technical analysis of works of art.

The Last Works

Giovanni Bellini

Twilit Tales are 50 short fantasy, science fiction, western, horror, Christian, adventure, suspense, mystery, thriller, contemporary, and historical fiction stories by the author of the Omega Gambit, En Passant, and the Paladin, that will make you rethink man's place in a strange and twisted universe!

Twilit Tales

The Self-help Paradox

Sylvia Ferino-Pagden

Jaynie Anderson

Deborah Howard

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienne).

Kunsthistorisches Museum (Wenen)

Presents a survey of sixty Venetian Renaissance paintings of the calibre of Bellini and Titian's "Feast of the Gods" in Washington and Giorgione's "Laura and Three Philosophers" in Vienna.

Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting

Leonardo (da Vinci)

Examines Leonardo da Vinci's beginnings as an artist and his earliest works, including the Uffizi Annunciation and the Munich Madonna and Child

David Alan Brown

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