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Partez à la découverte de Jean-Louis Forain avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Peintre, dessinateur, graveur, témoin de la Belle Époque comme de la Première Guerre mondiale, Jean-Louis Forain a con……続きを見る

This book is the first study of the portico and its decorative program as a cultural phenomenon in Renaissance Italy. Focusing on a largely neglected group of porticoes decorated with painted pergol……続きを見る

Non compaiono quasi mai in televisione, non hanno voce sui grandi giornali, non sono incoraggiate dai partiti che governano il Paese, eppure chi ha occhi per vedere li può scoprire ogni giorno: atto……続きを見る

From Pliny to Petrarch to Pope-Hennessy and beyond, many have understood the obvious connection between portraiture and commemorative practice. This book expands and nuances our understanding of Ren……続きを見る

Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourish……続きを見る

The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relati……続きを見る

Folktales are used by elders to teach the young generation about good and bad. Using stories of wizards and witches, princes and princesses, folktales will never fail to capture the attention. Such ……続きを見る

Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this fren……続きを見る

Although Americans have shown interest in Italian Baroque art since the eighteenth centuryーThomas Jefferson bought copies of works by Salvator Rosa and Guido Reni for his art gallery at Monticello,……続きを見る

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science and ultimately foreshadowed twentieth-century modern……続きを見る

Did you know that folktales are more than just stories? They are powerful traditions that can influence perceptions, behavior and attitude. They are stories of magic and powerful emotions that chang……続きを見る

Postcolonial theories have transformed literary, historical and cultural studies over the past three decades. Yet the study of medieval art and visualities has, in general, remained Eurocentric in i……続きを見る

Let’s take a look back at history, and learn from the events of the past. Learning is made much more fun when there are beautiful pictures and great layout involved. Pictures make knowledge universa……続きを見る

Make the subject of geography fun and engaging by introducing picture books to children. Here, the topic is all about France. You get to meet the people, enjoy their culture and visit their best tou……続きを見る

Why should you bother your child about history? Europe’s history has been riddled by wars and revolutions. They are sad stories for kids but they are stories that teach your little ones about how th……続きを見る

Charles Baudelaire’s flâneur, as described in his 1863 essay "The Painter of Modern Life," remains central to understandings of gender, space, and the gaze in late nineteenth-century Paris, despite ……続きを見る

It is very important that you use entertaining lessons when discussing European history because you want to match your child’s wide imagination. You can't just present facts like dates and names. No……続きを見る

A poster first printed in Germany in 1926 depicts the human body as a factory populated by tiny workers doing industrial tasks. Devised by Fritz Kahn (1888–1968), a German-Jewish physician and popul……続きを見る

First published in 1903, with 50 illustrations, many in color. Covering such artists as Manet, Degar, Monet, Renoir, Pissaro, Cezanne, and Cassatt. According to Wikipedia: "Séverin Faust (December 2……続きを見る

Contextualizing Michelangelo’s poetry and spirituality within the framework of the religious Zeitgeist of his era, this study investigates his poetic production to shed new light on the artist’s rel……続きを見る

First published in 1988, this book attempts to tackle the problem of how to write about art, culture, and the issues of postmodernism in a style appropriate to what is being claimed. The letters are……続きを見る

The cultural milieu in the “Age of Goethe” of eighteenth-century Germany is given fresh context in this art historical study of the noted writers’ patroness: Anna Amalia, Duchess of Weimar-Sachsen-E……続きを見る

“You’ll finish [Greenfield’s] book with new respect for color, especially for red. With A Perfect Red, she does for it what Mark Kurlansky in Salt did for that common commodity.”ーHouston Chronicle ……続きを見る

Edgar Degas began as a classical painter of genre history scenes and died as one of the greatest and most innovative names in French artーalthough as with so many other artists, he did not receive a……続きを見る

A personal overview of three of the author's favorite artists from three time periods. This includes the Renaissance, the Baroque and the Abstract Expressionist movement of the mid-20th century. Inc……続きを見る

The revolutionary boy at the barricades was memorably envisioned in Eugène Delacroix’s painting Liberty Leading the People (1830) and Victor Hugo’s novel Les Misérables (1862). Over the course of th……続きを見る

Illuminated here are the relationships between visual culture, faith, and gender in the courtly, monastic, and urban spheres of the early modern Burgundian Netherlands. By examining works by artists……続きを見る

Zahlreich sind die Verbindungslinien von Venedig über die Alpen nach Salzburg, sowohl in kultureller als auch in wirtschaftlicher Hinsicht. Über die Handelsmagazine Salzburger Kaufleute im Fondaco d……続きを見る

This book takes a new, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing modern Viennese visual culture, one informed by Austro-German theater, contemporary medical treatises centered on hysteria, and an orig……続きを見る

By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emile Gallé (1846–1904), whose works they described as……続きを見る