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Three Renaissance masters — Arcimboldo, Bassano, and Bruegel — examined through their shared engagement with nature, seasons, and time. Arcimboldo’s fruit portraits, Bassano’s pastoral scenes, and Bruegel’s seasonal landscapes in a scholarly and elegantly illustrated study of art’s dialogue with the natural world.

Georg Baselitz’s monumental 1960s Hero paintings — wounded, alienated figures in devastated landscapes, a raw and powerful response to the moral catastrophe of German history. A Prestel scholarly publication documenting one of the most significant series in postwar European art.

The miniature library of Queen Mary’s famous dolls’ house — tiny hand-written books by Conan Doyle, Hardy, Kipling, Barrie, and over 200 celebrated authors. Elizabeth Clark Ashby’s scholarly account of one of the Royal Collection’s most extraordinary objects: a masterpiece of literary and decorative art.

The extraordinary Kunstkammer at Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum — rock crystals carved into vessels, nautilus shells transformed by goldsmiths, coral set in gold. Rainald Franz presents treasures that sit at the intersection of nature, art, and wonder with exceptional photography and scholarly commentary.

Highlights from the Gilbert Collection’s world-class micromosaic holdings — miniature masterpieces of glass depicting Roman ruins and Italian landscapes, prized souvenirs of the Grand Tour. Heike Zech’s V&A publication with exceptional close-up photography reveals the extraordinary technical skill of the form.