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The years since 1989 have seen a complete untethering of what art can be, who makes it and where it can be found, which has been matched by a reassessment of art's appropriate place in society and t……続きを見る

Medieval Toledo is famous as a center of Arabic learning and as a home to sizable Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities. Yet its cathedralーone of the largest, richest, and best preserved in all……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Gedankengut aus meinen Wanderjahren" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Max Dauthendey (1867-1918) war ein ……続きを見る

In the second half of the Weimar period (1918–33), photographers produced books consisting almost entirely of sequenced images. The subjects ranged widely: from plants and nature to the modern metro……続きを見る

The nineteenth century saw a complete transformation of the practice and reputation of surgery. Crucial Interventions follows its increasingly optimistic evolution, drawing from the very best exampl……続きを見る

Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual r……続きを見る

As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there. This includes recording events as they happen, or recording places where something oc……続きを見る

Een vlot geschreven en inzichtelijke biografie van de beroemde schilder Als we aan Jeroen Bosch denken, denken we aan een wirwar van griezelige, helse en vreemde beelden. Bosch’ raadselachtige schil……続きを見る

The definitive biography of this brilliant polymath--director of the National Gallery, author, patron of the arts, social lion, and singular pioneer of television--that also tells the story of the a……続きを見る

This book provides an exciting portrayal of the history of the Duveen family in the art business up to 1939. "THOUGH MANY REASONS have contributed to impel me to write this hook, the chief one is th……続きを見る

Nazi art looting has been the subject of enormous international attention in recent years, and the topic of two history bestsellers, Hector Feliciano's The Lost Museum and Lynn Nicholas's The Rape o……続きを見る

The first independent or ‘pure’ landscapes in Western art were produced in southern Germany in the first decades of the sixteenth century. They were painted, drawn and etched by Albrecht Altdorfer o……続きを見る

When spectators in the Middle Ages examined images of Christ's crucifixion on Mount Calvary, did they ever consider them as representations of capital punishment? In The Thief, the Cross and the Whe……続きを見る

Spectacular Miracles confronts an enduring Western belief in the supernatural power of images, for example the belief that a statue or painting of the Madonna can fly through the air, speak, weep or……続きを見る

“Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.” ー Boston Sunday Globe In Caravaggio, Ne……続きを見る

A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city’s history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War……続きを見る

A unique look at the treasures of the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel, and the Basilica of Saint Peter from an official guide of the Eternal City. In a tiny enclave in the heart of Rome lies the……続きを見る

“One of the finest and most original writers…and one of the greatest Polish writers of [the 20th] century. [Herbert] is a figure comparable to, say, T. S. Eliot or W. H. Auden.” ーEdward Hirsch, The……続きを見る

From acclaimed historians Frances and Joseph Gies comes the reissue of their classic book on day-to-day life in medieval cities, which was a source for George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones series. E……続きを見る

From the bestselling author of The Most Beautiful Walk in the World comes this first book in an exciting new series of narrative “biographies” of Paris’s great neighborhoods, beginning with Saint-Ge……続きを見る

C’est avec Impression, soleil levant, exposé en 1874, que le peintre Claude Monet (1840-1926) se fait connaître du grand public et donne naissance au mouvement impressionniste. Tout au long de sa vi……続きを見る

In art history, the term ‘Romanesque art’ distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with ……続きを見る

C’est avec Impression, soleil levant, exposé en 1874, que le peintre Claude Monet (1840-1926) se fait connaître du grand public et donne naissance au mouvement impressionniste. Tout au long de sa vi……続きを見る

With Impression, Sunrise, exhibited in 1874, Claude Monet (1840-1926) took part in the creation of the Impressionist movement that introduced the 19th century to modern art. All his life, he capture……続きを見る

对莫奈而言，艺术创作始终是一种痛苦的挣扎。较之同时代人，他更深沉地痴迷于表达情感，更强烈地渴望传达超越大自然的光线效果。用他自己的话来形容：“技巧来来去去……艺术始终如一ーー它是大自然的转译，需要与意……続きを見る

Questo volume contiene numerose opere create da Picasso tra il 1881 e il 1914. Inizialmente, lo stile dell’artista è influenzato da El Greco, da Munch e da Toulouse-Lautrec, che lui scoprì da studen……続きを見る

Als Impressionist zu gelten war für Monet eine Auszeichnung. Er war es aus tiefer Überzeugung und blieb es bis an das Ende seines langen Lebens. Er begnügte sich mit einem einzigen Genre, dem der La……続きを見る

对莫奈而言，艺术创作始终是一种痛苦的挣扎。较之同时代人，他更深沉地痴迷于表达情感，更强烈地渴望传达超越大自然的光线效果。用他自己的话来形容：“技巧来来去去……艺术始终如一ーー它是大自然的转译，需要与意……続きを見る

Terme entré dans l’usage courant au cours de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, l’art roman distingue, en histoire de l’art, la période qui s’étend entre le début du XIe siècle jusqu’à la fin du XII……続きを見る

Développé à travers l’Europe pendant plus de 200 ans, l’art gothique est un mouvement qui trouve ses racines dans la puissante architecture des cathédrales du nord de la France. Délaissant la rondeu……続きを見る