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

The Spanish involvement with Nazi-looted art and the part played by the Austrian resistance in saving works of art are among the revelations in this book

This book reveals how the CIA’s promoted US artists as a way of stopping the spread of Communism in the years after World War II

The museum and the Great Exhibition from which it derives are the subject of five new books

The latest volume in the catalogues of the Khalili Collection describes the art of the Muslim courts of India

This second edition includes even more of the collection, providing a fine survey of the medium in America

The progress of Modernism in the Communist States and the response of the French Avant-garde to World War I are examined in these two books

Naomi Sawelson-Gorse edits this collection on the often overlooked women of Dada

Medieval German women’s art and spirituality examined with too much of the gender-studies approach

A new collection draws attention towards a neglected part of the Surrealist's output

One is a technical and stylistic analysis; the other a cultural critique. Both are well worth a read

Tales of stoicism in the face of extreme adversity

This blockbuster biography records the life of the American financier in exhaustive and exhausting detail, but fails to tell the story of his collecting

The book forms part of the museum's paperback photography series

Clementina, Lady Hawarden, a forgotten precursor of Julia Margaret Cameron, is the subject of this book and of the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition

A new study of the Surrealist painter's life and work

This collection positions Lewis as an “anti-war war artist”

This substantial volume, predominantly photographic, is the comprehensive account of Joseph Beuys’s life and work

Histories and anecdotes of the Tate Gallery and the British Museum

Similar in many ways, the subjects of these two biographies present contrasting styles of operation in the art market

Mammon’s shrine in the groves of academe

This biography of Henry Clay Frick takes a psychological approach that leaves much to be desired

This study is based on a close look at conservation and restoration research, a scientific examination of the artist’s technique, and new documentary evidence