Written for the nonspecialist and lavishly illustrated with objects from the collections of the J

finely detailed paintings bring this book to life

the unlikely partnership between the respected painter David Octavius Hill and the young engineer Robert Adamson produced some of the most important photographs in the history of the medium

and astonished viewers with his painterly landscapes and ravishing seascapes

"A celebration of the Getty Museum's collection of Murano glass

Gardens in Art iris Written for the nonspecialist andLucia Impelluso Gardens in Art analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings provide a continuous visual record of the myriad ephemeral forms of gardens, and in the nearly four hundred works presented here, drawn from important Western museums, subtle lines are used to point out salient details in the paintings for close examination by the reader. In the first five