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Giovanni Bellini Landscapes of Faith in Renaissance Venice Davide Gasparotto

Giovanni Bellini is widely considered to be the supreme Venetian painter of the Quattrocento. Drawing on a selection of masterpieces that span his long and successful career, this volume focuses on the function of landscape in his oeuvre.

THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Hardcover $35.00 Sacred Landscapes Nature in Renaissance Manuscripts Bryan C. Keene and Alexandra Kaczenski

Distant blue hills, soaring trees, vast cloudless skies—the majesty of nature has always had the power to lift the human spirit and there was no time where this was more true than in the Renaissance, when artists depicted nature in their religious art to intensify spiritual experiences. This lushly illustrated exhibition catalogue compiles the most impressive examples found in devotional manuscripts.

THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Hardcover $24.95 Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech Todd Gannon

This elegant book reassesses one of the most influential voices in twentieth-century architectural history through a detailed examination of Banham’s writing on High Tech architecture and its immediate antecedents.

THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Hardcover $49.95 Golden Kingdoms Luxury Arts in the Ancient America Edited by Joanne Pillsbury, Timothy Potts, and Kim N. Richter

This catalogue features over three hundred highly valued works made of jade, gold, delicate shell, and other materials, that traveled great distances across space and time, revealing connections between regions and challenging our sense of bounded traditions. THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM / THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Hardcover $59.95

Photography in Argentina Contradiction and Continuity Edited by Idurre Alonso and Judith Keller

This groundbreaking volume tracks a course through Argentine history using photography as a path to understanding notions of modernity, immigration, and national identity.

THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM Hardcover $55.00 Making Art Concrete Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Pia Gottschaller and Aleca Le Blanc

In the years after World War II, artists in Argentina and Brazil engaged in lively debates about the role of artwork in society and used novel synthetic materials and geometric abstraction, creating objects that they proposed become part of everyday life. This collection sheds new light on the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of these artists’ propositions. THE GETTY CONSERVATION INSTITUTE / THE GETTY RESEARCH INSTITUTE Hardcover $39.95