Books
London's National Gallery defends inclusion of Salvator Mundi in Leonardo show after criticism in new book
The curator’s attribution to the Renaissance master helped Christie’s achieve a world record price for the painting
Bruegel: great research, great exhibition—shame about the catalogue
The Kunsthistorisches's Bruegel exhibition catalogue fails to include any scholarly information
Kings, queens but mostly lesser royal hangers-on: the art-historical story of Kensington Palace
The great building as seen through the generations of its occupants
William-Adolphe Bougeureau: tasteless, sentimental, soft-porny, but French above all
Book looks at the former official darling of the American republic
Discovery in a Toulouse attic is no Caravaggio
There are too many oddities in the painting discovered in France five years ago
A picture book of avant-garde gardens and gardening
Not a guide nor a history, but a collection of unusual gardens and their makers
David Bailey in focus, plus Picasso biographer John Richardson remembered
We meet the photographer David Bailey at his London studio to discuss his new book and we talk with Gijs van Hensbergen about John Richardson, who died aged 95 last week. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
A collection of Romantic 19th-century German illustrations
Book looks at narrative cycles by Edward von Steinle and Leopold Bode
Postcards as art and the art of the postcard
Book looks at British Museum’s contemporary artists' postcards from 1960 to the present
A book on birth and child-rearing before Dr Spock
The history—in images and works of decorative art—of giving birth and raising children before 1900
#Menudetoo: naked bodies in the Renaissance explored at the Royal Academy of Arts and in three new publications
Examining the many meanings—and inanities—ascribed to the unclothed human body in Western art
Dead kings and queens and where to find them
A dictionary of the burial places of the English and Scottish kings and queens (and their relations)
Scenography in contemporary Scandinavian opera and theatre take centre stage in new book
Lars-Ake Thessman on his set- and costume-designs
A hefty tome on the arts of the Austro-Hungarian belle époque
The extraordinary mitteleuropäische flourishing of all the arts from 1900 to 1914
Novelist Orhan Pamuk unveils photographs of Istanbul he took from his balcony
On show in Turkey this month, the images are an ode to the Nobel Prize-winning author’s hometown
Wish you were here: revolutionary postcards in Imperial Russia
Book collects pictorially subversive propaganda in a populist medium
The extraordinary cultural energy of 18th-century Venice
Art, music and architecture flourished in the Republic for the last time
Frida Kahlo's letters conceal nothing and reveal nothing
Kahlo’s communications with her mother are unsurprisingly banal
Complex, ingenious, emotional: the concluding volumes of Jasper Johns’s catalogues raisonnés
Two further volumes comprehensively cover the artist's drawings and monotypes
How to try to understand Jusepe de Ribera's many scenes of violence
The Spanish artist’s extraordinary paintings of tortured bodies and tormented souls
Clement Greenberg: still waiting for sympathetic treatment
On the 110th birthday of the great American critic, we delve into our archive and discover that writings about him are either too academic or too sensationalist
How the Mexican Stridentist movement tried to build a national identity following the Civil War
Art and social action after the Mexican Revolution
Close study of fashions in medieval manuscripts is key to understanding interactions of literature and dress
Book of illuminations show various fashions that shed light on literary styles
The architectural and imaginative influence of the Holy Sepulchre and the Dome of the Rock in Western building styles
This book accounts for building histories, designs and geographical spread of church inspired by the Jerusalem prototypes
Southeast Asian illuminated manuscripts
Book looks at Thai and Burmese historic texts from the British Library
Book delves into the Rothschild collection of bizarre objects associated with death and dying
The collection was assembled by baroness Henri de Rothschild
First book on art collection of the draughtsman and cult figure Edward Gorey
Gorey inexplicably left his collection to the Wadsworth Atheneum
Philippe Costamagna’s combination of autobiography, anecdote and single discovery told in his own words
The memoirs of the Pontormo expert and director of the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ajaccio
Edward Woodman: the light and space of a golden era
UK retrospective freeze-frames often ephemeral works from the 1980s and 1990s
Rothschild Bronzes definitely by Michelangelo, new book claims
Pair of nude males, acquired by the family in 1877, last sold at auction in 2002