The materials were carefully selected by the editors along with an advisory board of international experts and include some—particularly the lectures

This book examines the painting in relation to the artist's life and work

This volume features vivid and charming details from the wealth of manuscripts in the collections of the J

an appendix presents a reconstruction of the book's devotional contents and program of illumination

Edgar Degas: Waiting In Focus The materials were carefully selectedRichard Thomson Degas's pastel Waiting (L'Attente) is an extraordinary object in its craftsmanship and color, as well as in the emotional pull it immediately exerts upon the viewer. But in addition to those qualities that we expect from a great work of art, Waiting also has an aura of ambiguity and even mystery. It is both its aesthetic qualities and the deeper questions the work arouses that are the subjects of this study. The book features a