New arrivals

Newly arrived books at the Barber Fine Art Library are listed below. We will update the list regularly when new books arrive and have been processed.​

February 2025

Visual arts

• The Revelation of Saint John the Divine / with lithographs by Hans Feibusch.
  London : Collins, 1946.
  Classmark: f BS2825 .F4 

• Catholica : the visual culture of Catholicism / Suzanna Ivanič.
  London : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2022.
  Classmark: BX1795.A78 I93 
•  L'invention de la Renaissance : l'humaniste, le prince et l'artiste / sous la direction de Jean-Marc Chatelain et Gennaro Toscano.
  [Paris] : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2024.
  Classmark: CB361 .I58 

• Migrants : art, artists, materials and ideas crossing borders / edited by Lucy Wrapson.
  Cambridge : Archetype Publications in association with the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge, 2019
  Classmark: q N72.S6 M54  

• Ben Uri : 100 years in London : art identity migration / edited by Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall.
  London : Ben Uri Gallery, 2015.
  Classmark: N1165.B46 B46  

• Out of chaos : Ben Uri : 100 years in London / edited by Rachel Dickson and Sarah MacDougall.
  London : Ben Uri, 2015.
  Classmark: N1165.B46 O98  

• Chasing beauty : the life of Isabella Stewart Gardner / Natalie Dykstra.
  New York : Mariner Books, 2024.
  Classmark: N5220.G26 D95  

• The Sassoons / Esther da Costa Meyer.
  New York : Jewish Museum, 2023.
  Classmark: N5247.S37 M49  

• How do images work? : strategies of visual communication in medieval art : proceedings from a conference in honour of Michael Viktor Schwarz / Christine Beier editor
  Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2021.
  Classmark: N5961 .H69  

• Degas en noir et blanc : dessins, estampes, photographies.
  Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2023.
  Classmark: N6853.D33 A4 

• Théodore Rousseau : la voix de la forêt / sous la direction de Servane Dargnies-de Vitry.
  Paris : Paris Musées, 2024.
  Classmark: N6853.R684 A4  

• The fate of early Italian art during World War II : protection, rescue, restoration / Cathleen Hoeniger ; with Geoffrey
  Hodgetts.
  Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2024.
  Classmark: N6918 .H64  

• Guercino : l'era Ludovisi a Roma / a cura di Raffaella Morselli.
  Naples : Arte'm, 2024.
  Classmark: q N6923.B283 

• Giovanni Stradano : le più strane e belle invenzioni del mondo / a cura di Alessandra Baroni.
  [Florence] : Edizioni Polistampa, 2023.
  Classmark: q N6973.S77 A4  

• The great Mughals : art, architecture and opulence / edited by Susan Stronge.
  London : V&A Publishing, 2024.
   Classmark: q N7302.G74  

• Hidden faces : covered portraits of the Renaissance / edited by Alison Manges Nogueira.
  New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2024.
  Classmark: N7592.2.H53  

• Exile and migration in regional collections. By Smith, Camilla.
  Birmingham : University of Birmingham, 2023.
  Classmark: N8217.E52 E95 

• Face au soleil : un astre dans les arts / Marianne Mathieu, Michael Philipp.
  Vanves : Hazan, 2022.
  Classmark: q N8251.N6 F33  

Sculpture

• Rebirth of a collection : the plaster casts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest in the renewed Star Fortress in Komárom / editor: Miriam Szőcs.
  Budapest : Museum of Fine Arts, 2021.
  Classmark: NB27.H9 B837  

• Exhibiting Antonio Canova : display and the transformation of sculptural theory / Christina Ferando.
  Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
  Classmark: NB623.C26 F46  N 

• Die Bronzen des Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656-1740) : Repräsentationsstrategien des europäischen Adels um 1700 / Carina A.E. Weißmann.
  Berlin : De Gruyter, 2022.
  Classmark: NB623.S65 W45  

Drawing. Design. Illustration

• Dürer to van Dyck : drawings from Chatsworth House / Charles Noble.
  Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland, 2024.
  Classmark: q NC225.N6 

• Promenades de papier : dessins du XVIIIe siècle des collections de la Bibliothèque nationale de France / sous la direction d'Esther Bell.
  Paris : Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2023.
  Classmark: NC246 .P759  

• Venice in blue : the use of carta azzurra in the artist's studio and in the printer's workshop, ca. 1500-1550 / edited by Alexa McCarthy .
  Firenze : Leo S. Olschki, 2024.
  Classmark: NC847 .V46  

Painting

• Frank Auerbach : portraits of London / Francis Outred, Offer Waterman.
  London : Offer Waterman, 2024.
  Classmark: ND497.A86 A4  

• Dora Carrington : beyond Bloomsbury / Anne Chisholm.
  Chichester, West Sussex : Pallant House Gallery, 2024.
  Classmark: ND497.C375 A4  

• Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, 1906-1996 : the painter = die Malerin / edited by Jeremy Adler
  Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2006.
  Classmark: ND511.5.M68 A4  

• Cézanne : Aufbruch in die Moderne / herausgegeben von Felix A. Baumann.
  Essen [Germany] : Museum Folkwang, 2004.
  Classmark: ND553.C4 A4  

• Maurice Denis : les chemins de la nature / Claire Denis.
  [Rennes] : Éditions Ouest-France, 2023.
  Classmark: ND553.D365 A4  

• Édouard Vuillard, the Nabis, and the politics of domesticity / Francesca Berry.
  London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2025.
  Classmark: ND553.V9 B46 

• Botticelli and Renaissance Florence : masterworks from the Uffizi / edited by Cecilia Frosinini.
  Minneapolis, MN : Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2022.
  Classmark: q ND623.B7 A4  

• Bernardino Poccetti and the art of religious painting at the end of the Florentine Renaissance / Douglas N. Dow.
  Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2023.
  Classmark: ND623.P699 D69  

• Guido Reni alla Galleria Borghese : dopo la mostra gli studi / a cura di Francesca Cappelletti.
  Genova : Sagep editori, 2022.
  Classmark: ND623.R6 G85  

• Veronese / Renzo Villa.
  Cinisello Balsamo, Milano : Silvana Editoriale, 2023.
  Classmark: f ND623.V5 V47  

• Hieronymus Bosch & the other Renaissance / Bernard Aikema.
  New York, NY : Cernunnos, 2024.
  Classmark: f ND653.B65 A4  

• Painters and sitters in early seventeenth-century Rome : portraits of the soul / Esther Theiler.
  Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2023.
  Classmark: ND1313.3 .T44 

Decorative arts

• The wider Goldsmiths' trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London / David M. Mitchell.
  [Place of publication not identified] : Ad Ilissvm, 2024.
  Classmark: NK7144.L66 M48  

• Designer's trade: autobiography of Gordon Russell.
  London : George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1968.
  Classmark: TS140.R8 A3  

Arts in general

• Bilder einer Metropole : die Impressionisten in Paris : Museum Folkwang / Hartwig Fischer
  Göttingen : Edition Folkwang/Steidl, 2010.
  Classmark: NX549.P2 B55  

• Gardening Bohemia : Bloomsbury women outdoors / Claudia Tobin.
  London : Garden Museum, 2024
  Classmark: NX650.G37 .T63 

January 2025

Economic and social history

• Medieval money, merchants, and morality / Diane Wolfthal
  New York : The Morgan Library & Museum, 2023.
  Classmark: HG243 .W65

Arts in Birmingham

• Royal Birmingham Society of Artists : a brief history. 
  Birmingham, [England] : Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Gallery, 2024.
  Classmark: p N12 .R69 
•  Women artists of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, 1884-2012 : exhibition catalogue / author, Brendan Flynn
  Birmingham : Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, RBSA Gallery, 2022.
  Classmark: p N5056.B5 F59 

 Visual arts

• National treasures : saving the nation's art in World War II / Caroline Shenton.
  London : John Murray, 2022.
  Classmark: D810.A7 S54 

• Gothic Modern : from Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz / editors in chief, Juliet Simpson, Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff.
  Helsinki : Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, 2024.
  Classmark: N6447 .G68 

• George Bellows : American life in print / Kristin L. Spangenberg.
  Lewes, UK : Giles, 2024.
  Classmark: N6537.B45 A4  

• Ingenious Italians : immigrant artists in eighteenth-century Britain / Katherine Jean McHale.
  London : Harvey Miller, 2024.
  Classmark: q N6766 .M34 

• Victorian radicals : from the Pre-Raphaelites to the arts & crafts movement / Martin Ellis, Victoria Osborne, Tim Barringer.
  New York : Munich : American Federation of Arts, 2018.
  Classmark: N6767.5.P7 B575 

• Electric dreams : art and technology before the internet / edited by Val Ravaglia ; with contributions by Sarah Cook 
  London : Tate Publishing, 2024.
  Classmark: N7433.8 .E44

• The Brummer Galleries, Paris and New York : defining taste from antiquities to the avant-garde / edited by Yaëlle Biro
  Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.
  Classmark: N8660.B75 B78  

• Berthe Weill : art dealer of the Parisian avant-garde / editors, Helen Adedotun and Mélanie Puchault.
  Paris : Flammarion, 2024.
  Classmark: N8660.W38 B47  

Architecture

• Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830 / Steven Brindle.
  London : Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2023.
  Classmark: q NA961 .B75  

• The Villa Barbaro at Maser : science, philosophy, and the family in Venetian Renaissance art / Denis Ribouillault.
  London : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2023.
  Classmark: NA7595.B3 R53  

Sculpture

• The beauty of bronze / Jeremy Warren.
  Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2024
  Classmark: NB1230 .W37 

Drawing. Design. Illustration

• Paper and light : luminous drawings / Julian Brooks and Michelle Sullivan.
  Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024.
  Classmark: NC755 .B76  

Painting

• Amy Sherald - American sublime / edited by Sarah Roberts.
  New Haven : Yale University Press, 2024.
  Classmark: q ND237.S5 A4  N 
  
  
• Winifred Nicholson, music of colour.
  Cambridge, United Kingdom : Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, 2012.
  Classmark: ND497.N62 A4 
  
  
• Klimt landscapes / edited by Janis Staggs
  Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2024.
  Classmark: q ND511.5.K55 A4  
  
  
• Fleeting : scents in colour / Ariane van Suchtelen and Lizzie Marx
  Zwolle : Waanders Publishers, 2021.
  Classmark: q ND646 .S83  
  
  
• Travelling with Vincent : Van Gogh in Drenthe / Annemiek Rens
  Assen : Zwolle : Drents Museum, 2023.
  Classmark: ND653.G7 A4  
  
  
• Jan Massys (c. 1510-1573) : Renaissance painter of Flemish female beauty / Maria Clelia Galassi.
  Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2023.
  Classmark: q ND673.M427 G35  
  
  
• Rubens : The Holy Trinity and the life of the Virgin / the Holy Trinity, the life of the Virgin, Madonnas, and the Holy Family/by Fiona Healy. Volumes 1 and 2.
  London : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2024.
  Classmark: ND673.R9 C63 
  
  
• British portrait miniatures from the Thomson Collection / Susan Sloman.
  [London] : Ad Ilissvm, 2024.
  Classmark: ND1337.G7 S56
  
  
• Creator of nightmares : Henry Fuseli's art and life / Christopher Baker.
  London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2024.
  Classmark: ND853.F87 B35 

 Print media

• Careers by design : Hendrick Goltzius, Peter Paul Rubens / edited by Nina Schleif
  München : Hirmer, 2024.
  Classmark: q NE663 .C37 

December 2024

Fundraising 

• The directory of grant making trusts 2024/25.
  London : Directory of Social Change, 2023.
  Classmark: AS940 .T47 
• The complete fundraising handbook.
  London : Directory of Social Change, 2019.
  Classmark: HV41.9.G7 H47 
• The guide to major trusts 2025/26. 
  London : Directory of Social Change, 2024.
  Classmark: q HV41.9.G7 P46 

Visual arts

• Musées d'Orléans : peintures françaises et italiennes XVe - XVIIe siècles / sous la direction de Corentin Dury.
  Gand : Éditions Snoeck, 2023.
  Classmark: q N2144.O74 A63  
• Roy Lichtenstein / edited by Gunhild Bauer and Klaus Albrecht Schröder.
  Vienna : Munich : Albertina ; 2024.
  Classmark: q N6537.L5 A4  
• Nordic art & way of life : art world, artists, themes / edited by Susanna Pettersson & Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff.
  Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2024.
  Classmark: N7007.N673  

Architecture

• The Chiesa del Redentore / Wladimir Timofiewitsch.
  University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
  Classmark: q NA1123.P2 C63  

Painting

• Oil paint and grease paint : autobiography of Laura Knight.
  New York : Macmillan Co., 1936.
  Classmark: N6797.K63 A2 
•  Laura Knight in the Malverns / Heather Whatley.
  Malvern, Worcestershire : Aspect Design, 2020.
  Classmark: N6797.K63 W43  
• Mark Rothko : paintings on paper / Adam Greenhalgh.
  Washington : New Haven : National Gallery of Art ; 2023.
  Classmark: ND237.R725 A4  
• Wilhelmina Barns-Graham : the glaciers / edited by Rob Airey.
  London : Lund Humphries, 2024.
  Classmark: ND497.B256 A4 
• Brilliant destiny : the age of Augustus John / David Boyd Haycock.
  London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2023.
  Classmark: ND497.J6 H39 
• Bonnard / Isabelle Cahn. 
  Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2024.
  Classmark: f ND553.B66 C34  
• Caspar David Friedrich : art for a new age / edited by Markus Bertsch.
  London : Thames & Hudson, 2024.
  Classmark: ND588.F75 A4 
• Paula Modersohn-Becker : Ich bin ich = I am me / edited by Jay A. Clarke and Jill Lloyd.
  Munich : Prestel, 2024.
  Classmark: q ND588.M58 A4 
• Carlo Crivelli : shadows on the sky / edited by Amanda Hilliam and Jonathan Watkins.
  Birmingham : Ikon ; 2022.
  Classmark: ND623.C9 A4 
• Gesina ter Borch / Adam Eaker.
  London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2024.
  Classmark: ND653.B654 E25 
• Dieric Bouts : creator of images / edited by Peter Carpreau
  Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, 2023.
  Classmark: q ND653.B68 A4 
• Van Gogh : poets & lovers / Cornelia Homburg with Christopher Riopelle.
  London National Gallery Company Ltd 2024.
  Classmark: ND653.G7 H6 
  
• Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde : along the Seine / edited by Bregje Gerritse and Jacquelyn N. Coutre.
  New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2023.
  Classmark: ND653.G7 V3535 
• The touch of Pygmalion : Rubens and sculpture in Rome / edited by Francesca Cappelletti and Lucia Simonato.
  Milano : Electa, 2023.Classmark: ND673.R9 A4 

• Rubens : The Medici series I & II. (Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard part 14, 1.) / Nils Büttner.
  London ; Turnhout : Harvey Miller Publishers, 2023.
  Classmark: ND673.R9 .B88 
• The art of the Chinese picture-scroll / Shane McCausland.
  London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2023.
  Classmark: ND1040.M33 
• A circumpolar landscape : art and environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1890-1930 / Isabelle Gapp.
  London : Lund Humphries, 2024.
  Classmark: ND1352.C3 G37
• Mist and fog in British and European painting : Fuseli, Friedrich, Turner, Monet and their contemporaries / Evan R. Firestone.
  London : Lund Humphries, 2023.
  Classmark: ND1460.W43 F57  

Decorative arts

• The story of furniture / Gordon Russell & Jacques Groag.
  Broadway, Worcestershire : The Gordon Russell Trust, 2008.
  Classmark: NK2270.R87 

 Arts in general

• Philanthropy in the arts : a game of give and take / Leslie Ramos.
  London : Lund Humphries, 2023.
  Classmark: NX700.R36

November 2024

• Paris 1924 : sport, art and the body / edited by Caroline Vout and Christopher Young.
  London : Paul Holberton Publishing, 2024.
  Classmark: GV722 1924 .P37
  
  
•  Islam in Europe / catalogue by Diana Luber.
  London : Paul Holberton Publishing Ltd, 2023.
  Classmark: q N6264.G7 L83

• William Kent's ceiling paintings at Houghton Hall / John Laycock.
  King's Lynn, Norfolk : The Houghton Arts Foundation, 2022.
  Classmark: q N6797.K4 W55 

• Vertigo of color : Matisse, Derain, and the origins of Fauvism / Dita Amory and Ann
  New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.
  Classmark: N6848.5.F3 A46 
• Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael : Florence, c.1504 / Scott Nethersole, Per Rumberg.
  London : Royal Academy of Arts, 2025.
  Classmark: N6921.F7 N48 

• Women pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement / edited by Karen Livingstone.
  London : Thames and Hudson, 2024.
  Classmark: N8354 .W6 

• Cassatt-McNicoll : impressionists between worlds / edited by Caroline Shields.
  Toronto, Ontario : Art Gallery of Ontario, 2023.
  Classmark: ND237.C3 A4

• Imagining sculpture : a short conjectural history / Stanley Abe.
  Munich, Germany : Hirmer Verlag, 2022
  Classmark: NB60 .A24
•  Frank Auerbach : the charcoal heads / Barnaby Wright.
  London : Paul Holberton Publishing, 2024.
  Classmark: NC242.A93 A4

• Botticelli drawings / edited by Furio Rinaldi.
  San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2023.
  Classmark: NC257.B68 A4

• Bruegel to Rubens : great Flemish drawings / An Van Camp.
  Oxford : Ashmolean Museum, 2024.
  Classmark: NC264 .C36

• Abstract visions of colour : Mary Gartside c.1755-1819 : a woman theorist in Georgian England / Alexandra Loske.
  London : Thomas Heneage Art Books, 2024.
  Classmark: ND467 .A27 

• Francis Bacon : human presence / [edited by] Rosie Broadley.
  London : National Portrait Gallery, 2024.
  Classmark: ND497.B16 A4
• Manet, Degas / Stephan Wolohojian and Ashley Dunn.
  New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2023.
  Classmark: q ND553 .A4 

• Sofonisba Anguissola / Cecilia Gamberini.
  Los Angeles : Getty Publications, 2024.
  Classmark: ND623.A5395 G36