Who was the real Leonardo da Vinci?

The Vasari of his field, Vever was himself a jeweller—though like Vasari he is better known for his writing

The evergreen aesthetic attraction of nothingness is explored and Anish Kapoor’s book replaces a vanished work

New technology does not change anything except the context of art

A weak exhibition that attempts to survey the Victorian legacy is partially redeemed by the accompanying book

Bacon lithographs at Coskun, Euan Uglow at Browse and Darby and Albers at Waddingtons

(Tate Publications, London, 2000), 192 pp, 25 b/w ills, 160 col. ills, £16.99 (pb) ISBN 1854372874

A popular, non-technical explanation of the physical composition of paintings is not easy

Three books show that the depiction of war in art is as various as other human responses to the phenomenon

Christopher Ridgway and Robert Williams (eds), Sir John Vanburgh and landscape architecture: art and design in baroque England, 1690-1730

This handsome overview spans the celebrated photographer's entire career

David Sylvester reevaluates violence

Adriaen de Vries takes the new award for the outstanding exhibition catalogue

A celebration of the Gilded Age couple famed for their taste and refinement

Around 500,000 volumes are scattered across 150 historic houses

It will comprise of six volumes, beginning with his production from 1961 to 1963

Abstract Expressionism in the Hebrides

“People often ask how I could pursue such a ‘sad’ subject for so long”

Identifying the common circumstances behind the 18th-century ceramics industry

A compelling biography of the father and son who founded the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore

Good value and good quality with Thames & Hudson, and Tate Publications launch a raft of titles in connection with the new museums

Raphael gets assessed according to the theories of Rudolph Steiner and Vasari’s judgement of Andrea del Sarto is reversed

As the exhibition on Ruskin’s championship of Turner opens at the Tate, this crop of catalogues returns a timely harvest of Turner scholarship

"Women and art: Contested territory" and "Great women collectors"

Of the fifty one books that were stolen, nineteen have been recovered

Artists (Tate Gallery Publishing, London, 1999)

A new book explores the notebooks of the Renaissance Master

Anthony North uses the collection to illustrate the history of pewter design and decoration

Admired by Van Gogh and an enormously successful artist in his lifetime, Herkomer was a polymath and man of action