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Gustav Klimt was raised in poverty in mid-nineteenth century Vienna but his precocious artistic talent raised him from the gutter to the heights of Austrian society. Initially a generic painter of h……続きを見る

Vincent van Gogh is indisputably one of the greatest painters of the late nineteenth century.His works are some of the most recognizable and sought after of any artist. His paintings are thehighligh……続きを見る

Hieronymus Bosch is a Dutch painter of the late Middle Ages. He died in 1516. His work is known for its use of fantastic, now-viewed as horrific, imagery to illustrate moral and religious concepts a……続きを見る

Late nineteenth century Paris was a thriving, exciting place for artists, and Alphonse Mucha was the most celebrated artist working in the city. Everywhere you looked his posters and advertisement d……続きを見る

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Egon Schiele is considered by many to be the greatest draftsman of the 20th century. The undeniable fact, however. that a considerable share of his work is of an explicitly erotic nature has blinded……続きを見る

Although an American, Mary Cassatt spent the majority of her life in France and gained most of her fame and success in Europe. Not until after her death on June 14, 1926, at Chateau de Beaufresne, n……続きを見る

The earliest botanical illustrations are found inancient herbalsーpractical works of knowledge, written to pass on crucial information about how to heal the sick. Around the time of the Renaissance,……続きを見る

Jan Vermeer is acknowledged as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. Yet in his lifetime he was largely unregarded and struggled to make a living for himself and his family. He lived and worke……続きを見る

Paul Cézanne, a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter, was an important catalyst to the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to the modern and radically different ……続きを見る

Caravaggio is variously labeled a uniquely gifted artist and an arrogant, rebellious, and dangerously violent murderer. But for all his wild behavior, he was a profoundly religious man. Caravaggio, ……続きを見る

El Greco, or Doménikos Theotokópoulos, was born to Greek parents on the island of Crete. He is considered by many art historians to be the last great Mannerist painter. El Greco, or “The Greek,” lef……続きを見る

Monet’s gift was to show the world a different way of seeing and interpreting everything around us. He brought his canvases to life with dabs and swoops of color put together to give an impression o……続きを見る

Can a work of art help us know our world differently? In this first scholarly study of Giuseppe Penone, art historian Elizabeth Mangini argues that the Italian artist’s engagement of the body’s mult……続きを見る

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North’s destructive relationship with the natural ……続きを見る

In Landscape Painting, Lovell Birge Harrison reveals concepts and practices for deciphering nature's magnificence, intricacy, and color dynamics into convincing representations of space and light. A……続きを見る

Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) is often mentioned as one of the best examples of Japonism, Western art inspired by Japanese art. Van Gogh was infatuated with a vision of Japanese art. He experienced……続きを見る

Drawing on rich archival research and focusing on works by leading artists including Guido Reni and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Karen J. Lloyd demonstrates that cardinal nephews in seventeenth-century Rom……続きを見る

“Riscontri” è una testata unica nel suo genere che si caratterizza per l’approccio globale al mondo della cultura, con articoli di critica letteraria, di storia e di filosofia. Lontana dagli eccessi……続きを見る

Focusing on the art of Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) and his colleagues Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Frédéric Bazille, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Fellow Men argues for the importan……続きを見る

From aesthetic promenades in noble palaces to the performativity of religious apparatus, this edited volume reconsiders some of the events, habits and spaces that contributed to defining exhibition ……続きを見る

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowings from the Viennese humoristic journal, D……続きを見る

John Constable was born in 1776 to a prosperous family and was expected to enter his father's milling and grain business. During his idyllic childhood he steadily reached the conclusion that art rat……続きを見る

Nel periodo di massima creatività (1880-1890) fu sottoposto a ripetuti ricoveri, ogni volta con una diagnosi diversa. Dopo la sua morte, il giallo s’infittisce con nuove “accuse”: schizofrenia, mali……続きを見る

This book maps contemporary playwriting and theatre translation practices and ecologies in the European continent. Whether you are a scholar researching contemporary drama and translation, or a thea……続きを見る

Published to accompany the John Piper exhibition at the Tate Liverpool and written by its curator, this book presents a comprehensive examination of the English artist’s role as champion of modernis……続きを見る

This is a short story about a young woman who moved to Nigeria from England with her husband. Believing she will be living a life with all the trimmings of the affluent. She was happy to put on hold……続きを見る

Why is something a masterpiece? Art History 101 . . . Without the Exams is about revisiting famous works of art that we may have studied in an art history class or seen in a textbook. Each discussio……続きを見る

Fashion is a subject that has long been marginalized in art history and in museums. And yet, one of the most well-known artists in the twentieth century - Marcel Duchamp - created works that challen……続きを見る

Paul Gauguin (Paris, 1848 – Atuona, Iles Marquises 1903) Paul Gauguin fut tout d'abord marin puis agent de change émérite à Paris. En 1874, il commença à peindre pendant les week-ends, tel un peintr……続きを見る