Paul Johnson

Sitting At Ease

John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits

By Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray

William Packer

The Egoist’s Muse

Face to Face: British Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century

By Philip Vann

Christopher Ondaatje

Courting The Madonna

Raphael: From Urbino To Rome

By Hugo Chapman, Tom Henry, Carol Plazzotta

A C Grayling

The Progress of Pulchritude

On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea

By Umberto Eco (ed)

James Hall

All Change, Please

Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso

By Paul Barolsky

Kevin Jackson

When Blue Met Yellow

Green: The History of a Color

By Michel Pastoureau (Translated by Jody Gladding)

Jonathan Keates

Object of Desire

The Rape of Europa: The Intriguing History of Titian’s Masterpiece

By Charles FitzRoy

David Watkin

Help!

Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities and Architecture

By Manfredo Tafuri (Translated by Daniel Sherer)

Frances Spalding

Angel of the North East

Lady Trevelyan and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

By John Batchelor

Kevin Jackson

Paint and Spirits

Austin Osman Spare: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist

By Phil Baker

James Hall

Three Attempts on Michelangelo’s Life

Young Michelangelo: The Path to the Sistine

By John T Spike

Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing

By Deborah Parker

Michelangelo: A Life on Paper

By Leonard Barkan

John Gray

Declarations of Intent

100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists

By Alex Danchev

Patrick Williams

European Son

The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance

By Henry Kamen

Michael Glover

Artistic Impressions

Vincent van Gogh: The Letters

By Leo Jansen, Hans Luijten and Nienke Bakker (ed)

Paul Johnson

A Rare Luminousity

Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings

By Patrick Noon

Frances Spalding

Back in the Frame

Hidden in the Shadow of the Master: The Model-Wives of Cezanne, Monet, & Rodin

By Ruth Butler

Alex Danchev

Band of Bohemians

In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and Modernism in Paris 1900–1910

By Sue Roe

Brian Dillon

Lost Soles

A Shoe Story: Van Gogh, the Philosophers and the West

By Lesley Chamberlain

James Delingpole

Rah-Rah for Reredos

A Lust for Window Sills: A Lover’s Guide to British Buildings from Portcullis to Pebble-Dash

By Harry Mount

William Cash

An Overheated Balloon

Seven Days in the Art World

By Sarah Thornton