“Brian Sewell’s Essential Art Books of 2013”

by Brian Sewell via “London Evening Standard“

“Is your Raphael authentic? Who was Alan Sorrell? And which British painter-architect deserves to be up there with Palladio? The answers are in this year’s essential art books, chosen and reviewed by Brian Sewell . . . .”

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You can buy his recommended books in the United States here:

• Pliny and the Artistic Culture of the Italian Renaissance
• Michelangelo: His Epic Life 

• Alan Sorrell: The Life and Works of an English Neo-Romantic Artist 

• The Renaissance and the Ottoman World 
• Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
• William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain 
• Late Raphael
• Nordic Art: The Modern Breakthrough 1860-1920
• The Letters of Paul Cézanne 
• Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938
• Paul Nash: Landscape and the Life of Objects
• Anselm Kiefer Studios
• David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition
• Matisse: The Chapel at Venice
• Palazzo Te: Giulio Romano’s Masterwork in Mantua

Any books you would recommend? Leave the title in the Comments.

My personal favorites revolved mostly around Asian Art, including:

The Chinese Art Book, by Colin Mackenzie, et al. 

Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900, by Hongxing Zhang.

Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures from the Nazis, by Robert Edsel