Great Cathedrals
by Bernhard Schutz
Harry N. Abrams
$85.00/$68.00

The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, with their soaring spires and expanses of glass, are some of the most loved and admired works of architecture in the world. This glorious art book covers the major Romanesque and Gothic cathedrals in France, England, Germany, Italy, and Spain. A wealth of photographs showing the cathedrals inside and out, including close-up architectural and sculptural details, and an authoritative text by a respected architectural historian combine to produce an indispensable work for scholars, as well as a lovely gift for all those who adore these majestic buildings.

John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s: Complete Paintings: Vol. II
by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray
Yale University Press
$65.00/$52.00

This gorgeous book is the second volume of the definitive catalogue raisonné of the work of the American painter John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). It comprises over one hundred and fifty formal portraits and portrait sketches in oil and watercolor that he painted between 1889 and 1900. Each work is documented in depth: entries include traditional data about the painting or watercolor; details of the work's provenance, exhibition history and bibliography; a short biography of the sitter; a discussion of the circumstances in which the work was created; and a critical discussion of its subject matter, style, and significance in Sargent's career.

Lucian Freud
by William Feaver
Harry N. Abrams
$49.95/$39.96

Over six decades, Lucian Freud has built up a reputation as one of the most distinctive contemporary figurative artists. Freud's startling and disconcerting portraits and nudes have a haunting quality that makes them impossible to forget. This stunning book brings together key works from Freud's entire career, including over 140 paintings, drawings, and etchings, some new, and many never before exhibited.

One Hundred Photographs: A Collection by Bruce Bernard
by Bruce Bernard and Mark Haworth-Booth
Phaidon
$49.95/$39.96

Bruce Bernard was the leading picture editor of his generation, celebrated for his visual taste, knowledge and judgement of photography. In the 1990s, he was commissioned by a private client to assemble a photographic collection and set about acquiring a selection of images that represented, to his unique eye, the best work in the medium from the whole history of photography, ranging from nineteenth-century pioneers like Muybridge and Fox Talbot to giants of the twentieth century like Andre Kertesz,Man Ray, Brassai and Robert Frank. This is a unique collection that captures, as Bernard himself put it, "some of the magic of the medium-its uncanny life-preserving qualities and unique perceptions".

Pieter Bruegel
by Philippe and Francoise Roberts-Jones
Harry N. Abrams
$49.95/$39.96

Famous for his robust scenes of peasant life and his incomparable mountain landscapes, the beloved 16th-century artist Pieter Bruegel is generally considered the greatest Flemish painter of the Renaissance. This book, the most up-to-date monograph on Bruegel, incorporates the latest art-historical research and new information gleaned from recent restoration of his work. The authors, an art historian and a painting conservator, each bring their special expertise to bear on the many outstanding questions about the artist's life, technique, and the often enigmatic meaning of his paintings.