Adolescent dans un internat religieux d’Arcachon, Daniel Cordier y découvre son attirance pour les garçons et pour David, en particulier. Cette passion, interrompue par son renvoi du collège, ne ces……続きを見る
"Emplissons jusqu’au bord la coupe des plaisirs : enivrons-nous de sa liqueur, notre nectar." George Gordon Byron, sixième baron Byron, plus connu sous le nom de "Lord Byron" (1788-1824), reste pour……続きを見る
This Art Book with Foreword contains 146 selected reproductions of paintings from Henri Fantin-Latour.
Henri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and printmaker. Though he associated with innovative a……続きを見る
Vasily Polenov was a Russian landscape painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement of realist artists. He studied under Pavel Chistyakov and in the Imperial Academy of Arts . As a pensioner o……続きを見る
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796 - 1875) was the leading French painter of the Barbizon school in the mid-nineteenth century. Claude Monet called of him:
"There is only one master here and his name……続きを見る
John Constable was English artist, considered with Turner as one of the greatest British landscape painters. His most excellent landscapes are of the places Constable knew, mainly Suffolk ……続きを見る
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist artist which paintings, drawings and murals are marked by eroticism and sensuality. Klimt lived a simple, cloistered life, in which he avoided other artists an……続きを見る
Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and master of the pastels. He describes his own work as "ambiguous and indefinable":
"My drawings inspire, and are not to be defi……続きを見る
Known as the "Father of Impressionism", Pissarro painted rural and urban French life, particularly landscapes, as well as scenes from Montmartre.
Pissarro offer substantial con……続きを見る
Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his time and one of the most original geniuses in the history of landscape pa……続きを見る
Fra Angelico was Florentine painter and Dominican friar originally named Guido di Pietro. Vasari, who referred to Fra Giovanni as a simple and most holy man, popularized the use of the name Angelico……続きを見る
Raffaello Sanzio (or Santi, Raphael ) was one of the greatest artists of the High Renaissance in Italy. He was admired personality, celebrated, prosperous, and honored, and his influence was broadly……続きを見る
An important Post-Impressionist French painter, Georges Seurat moved away from the obvious spontaneity and quickness of Impressionism and developed a structured, more monumental art to depict modern……続きを見る
William Adolphe Bouguereau was a follower of classical art and had no wish for everything like novelty or the avant-garde.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau used ancient themes, making new readings of clas……続きを見る
Spanish painter Francisco Goya completed some 500 oil paintings and murals, about 300 etchings and lithographs, and many hundreds of drawings.
The first of his great series of engravings, L……続きを見る
This book is a documented narrative of my life in confronting multiple sclerosis (MS). It goes beyond a personal autobiography to offer a scientific and experiential examination of the paths of diag……続きを見る
Henri Rousseau was a French Post-Impressionist artist in Primitive manner. Ridiculed during his lifetime, he came to be recognized as a self-taught genius whose works are of high artistic quality.
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Tiziano Vecellio was the greatest artist of the Venetian School, recognized as immense genius in his own time and his reputation as one of the giants of art has never been sincerely questioned. Loma……続きを見る
Franz Marc was a painter and printmaker, one of the important figures of the German Expressionism. He was a founding member of a journal Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), whose name afterwards beca……続きを見る
Die erste Biografie von Fred Stein: Fotograf, Exilant und Chronist des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Hannah Arendt mit Zigarette, Thomas Mann am Schreibtisch, der lächelnde Einstein, Brecht im Profil. Diese Auf……続きを見る
Les Gyotaku , empreintes de poissons en japonais, constituent pour les pêcheurs japonais un moyen d’immortaliser leurs prises. Le poisson est lavé puis badigeonné d’encre noire afin de produire une ……続きを見る
Isaac Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape". His extremely influential art heritage consists of more than a 1000 paintings, paste……続きを見る
Frederic Sackrider Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the ……続きを見る
Félix Vallotton was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with group Les Nabis. By the end of his life he had completed over 1700 paintings and about 200 prints, in addition to hundreds o……続きを見る
Viktor Vasnetsov was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founder of Russian folklorist and romantic modernist painting and a key figure ……続きを見る
Vasily Vereshchagin was one of the most famous Russian battle painters and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scenes led many of them ……続きを見る
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was French painter of still-lifes and domestic scenes remarkable for their intimate realism and tranquil atmosphere and the luminous quality of their paint. For his stil……続きを見る
Ivan Kramskoi was a Russian painter and draughtsman, a remarkable art critic and theoretician of art, a talented teacher, one of intellectual leaders of the Russian democratic art movement in 1860-1……続きを見る
Step into the enigmatic world of H.P. Lovecraft, the master of cosmic horror, as this compelling biography unravels the mysteries surrounding his life and delves deep into the darkness of his litera……続きを見る
In "Edgar Allan Poe: Biografie" gewährt Hanns Heinz Ewers einen faszinierenden Einblick in das Leben und die Gedankenwelt des bedeutenden amerikanischen Schriftstellers Edgar Allan Poe. Der Buchinha……続きを見る
