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Michael Jacobs was haunted by Velazquez's enigmatic masterpiece Las Meninas from first encountering it in the Prado as a teenager. In Everything is Happening Jacobs searches for the ultimate significance...

A sourcebook of 1950s fashion print, this book covers the heyday of postwar design where an analytical approach to design, with a lightness and freshness, combined with whimsical imagery and...

From the earliest examples of national art at the beginning of the 19th century and the romantic seascapes of Aivasovsky, to the great Realists such as Ilya Repin, and the...

With over 450 works, this volume deals with the most important trends and groups in French painting from the middle of the 19th century to the first years of the...

Between popular masterpieces and rather little known artists, this book unfolds nine centuries of the history of French painting. This book contains more than 450 works showing medieval frescoes, Gothic...

Painting from 1200 to 1500 is a mirror of its time, marked by deep religiousness as well as progressive tendencies, by economic prosperity as well as devastating wars and epidemics....

With more than eight million visitors a year, the Louvre is the museum with the most visits in the world. Its extensive collection of paintings reflects the history of European...

In the 1860s, a style of painting emerged in Paris which fundamentally called into question the artistic concepts that had been prevalent in academies up to that time. Impressionist artists...

From the medieval works of Romanesque and Gothic art to the golden age of the Baroque, from the famous Beatus Apocalypses to Diego Velazquez and Francisco de Zurbaran, Spanish painting...

From the lavish abundance of the late Baroque court and epoch-making painters like Bartolome Esteban Murillo and Francisco de Goya, to the appearance of Romanticism and Classicism in the age...

Hiroshige is one of the most important artists of the Japanese woodblock print and is considered a master of "ukiyo-e," the "pictures of the floating world." His evocative illustrations show...

More than 250 works by Albrecht Durer are reproduced here to give the reader a comprehensive survey of the life and work of this unique and universal genius in genres...

Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring is almost as famous as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. And yet the life and work of the painter remains as enigmatic as ever....

Chaim Soutine was an eccentric both in life and on the canvas. His wild painting style inspired many younger artists and leaves no one who sees his work today cold....

Few painters are as well-known and admired as Cezanne. His work focuses on subjects popular since the Renaissance: portraiture, figure studies, landscapes, and still lifes. However, the way the artist...

An eccentric exhibitionist, Egon Schiele documented the discord of his time in furious paintings of people and self-portraits. Schiele's artistic universe is ready to be rediscovered with these many illustrations...

The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic compositions and pronounced contrasts between light and...

An overview of the most important paintings of the Renaissance; includes more than 400 works. The origin of Renaissance painting lies in Italy. With the return to antiquity, a world...

The few surviving works by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch are among the most famous icons in art history. Unique hidden-book-like works of horror, his paintings are populated by monsters...

The father of impressionists, Camille Pissarro, was groundbreaking for the modern age. Whether it was painting or graphics, impressionism or pointillism, portraits or the worker genre--his work was extraordinarily versatile...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec recorded unforgettable images of belle-epoque Paris in his paintings, lithographs, and posters. The posters created by the painter and graphic designer for the Moulin Rouge club in...

As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the most important post-impressionist painters. Trained...

Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) followed his path away from the great...

Edgar Degas staged his paintings like a director and developed spectacular perspectives, radical images, and fleeting spaces. Numerous images of his paintings, pastels, drawings, and sculptures show his sensational work...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir put people into the center of his painting. His compositions showed people embracing the pleasures of life, dancing, and enjoying outings in Paris. He created special atmospheres full...

His Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric and obsessive, created with his pictures of the floating world a veritable...

This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, rivalry that emerges from admiration, friendship, love. The...

William Morris - poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement - was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still...

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Rome as we know it is largely a creation of the Renaissance, restructured and risen anew from a neglected medieval town. This book traces the extraordinary works of painting, sculpture...

In this book, leading art experts, art historians, and critics review the life, career, and artistic development of New York based Chinese artist Zhang Hongtu. A pioneer in contemporary Chinese...

In Remote Avant-Garde Jennifer Loureide Biddle models new and emergent desert Aboriginal aesthetics as an art of survival. Since 2007, Australian government policy has targeted "remote" Australian Aboriginal communities as...

In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most important, celebrated, and studied...

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Author: Claude SchaefferBinding: HardbackPublished: Heron Books, 1970Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis collection offers a comprehensive overview of the history of art, featuring various styles and movements....

Author: Meyer SchapiroBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1978Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a collection of selected papers by Meyer Schapiro, focusing on the evolution...

Author: John Rupert MartinBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon Press Ltd, 1972Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book showcases the elaborate decorations used in the grand ceremonial entrance of...

Author: HAVERKAMP-BEGEMANN, EgbertBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon, 1975Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis volume is part of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard series, focusing on the works of...

Author: Svetlana AlpersBinding: HardbackPublished: Phaidon, 1971Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is part of the Corpus Rubenianum Ludwig Burchard series and focuses on the decoration...

Author: Alfred MoirBinding: HardbackPublished: NY Univ. Press, 1976Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsNote: Faded and dull spine. This book explores the life and works of Caravaggio, focusing...

Author: Sir J. A. HammertonBinding: HardbackPublished: The Amalgamated Press, 1111Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsExplore the ancient world with this illustrated two-volume collector's edition of 'Wonders of...

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The vivid and masterful story of Isabella Stewart Gardner-creator of one of America's most stunning museums-an American original whose own life was remade by art. Includes archival photos of Isabella's...

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Walter Potter (1835-1918), a country taxidermist of no great expertise, became famous as an icon of Victorian whimsy. His tiny museum in Bramber, Sussex, was crammed full of multi-legged kittens,...