Japanese woodblock prints: 20 ukiyo-e masterpieces
Hiroshige’s snow and fireworks, Utamaro’s beauties, Harunobu’s lovers and Kuniyoshi’s warriors: twenty Japanese woodblock prints, how they were made, and how to hang them.
Art & Artists
Look closely at paintings and the people behind them. Explore artists, movements and the stories hidden in familiar and unexpected works of art.
Famous self portraits: 12 artists who looked in the mirror
From Rembrandt frowning at 24 to Böcklin listening to Death play the fiddle, twelve self portraits that show how artists saw themselves, and how to hang one at home.
Impressionist paintings: 20 works full of light
Monet’s poppies, Renoir’s riverside lunch, Morisot’s dining room and Pissarro’s village: twenty impressionist works, what makes each one sing, and how to bring them home.
Horse portraits from a photo, in the tradition of Stubbs
Ten great horse paintings, by Stubbs, Géricault, Wouwerman, Paulus Potter and Alfred de Dreux, each the masterwork behind a Fable portrait style for your own horse.
Romanticism paintings: 15 storms, ruins and moonlit skies
Friedrich’s wanderer, Fuseli’s nightmare, Delacroix’s lions, Turner’s calm morning and Dadd’s fairy world: fifteen Romantic paintings of feeling, nature and the supernatural.
Cat memorial gifts: a gentle way to remember
Ten tender paintings of cats, by Henriëtte Ronner-Knip, Gainsborough, Liebermann and Courbet, each the masterwork behind a Fable portrait style for remembering a cat.
Rococo art and style: 15 paintings in pastel and gold
Boucher’s Pompadour, Tiepolo’s Cleopatra, Canaletto’s Grand Canal and Liotard’s pastel lady in Turkish dress: fifteen Rococo paintings, what makes the style, and how to bring it into a room.
Dog memorial gifts that honour a life well loved
When a dog dies, a portrait keeps them in the room. Ten paintings of dogs who were loved and remembered, each the masterwork behind a Fable portrait style.
Baroque art: 18 paintings of drama, light and gold
Rembrandt’s Aristotle, Velázquez’s Juan de Pareja, La Tour’s candlelit Magdalen and Rubens at full gallop: eighteen Baroque masterpieces, what makes them Baroque, and how to hang them.