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Es una concepción ampliamente aceptada que, en el seno de las monarquías modernas, las facultades de las reinas consortes se limitaban a ser mera condición de posibilidad para la concepción de un he……続きを見る

In "The Story of Spanish Painting," Charles H. Caffin delivers a thorough and engaging exploration of Spanish art, tracing its evolution from the medieval period through the modern era. Caffin's pro……続きを見る

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533– c.1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop.……続きを見る

Edgar Award Winner for Best Fact Crime. "An entertaining account of the eternal struggle between high art and low cunning." ー Time In the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves……続きを見る

Павел Павлович Муратов ー выдающийся русский историк, специалист по европейскому и азиатскому искусству, знаток иконописи, литературный и художественный критик, издатель, переводчик и публицист. Он ……続きを見る

This volume explores a basic question in the historiography of art: the extent to which iconology was a homogenous research method in its own immutable right. By contributing to the rejection of the……続きを見る

Heir To The Old Masters contains a biographical essay on Reynolds by Chadwick Hagan, and images and the original seven discourses by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Discourses have been edited and annotated. 2……続きを見る

We tend to think of sixteenth-century European artistic theory as separate from the artworks displayed in the non-European sections of museums. Alessandra Russo argues otherwise. Instead of consider……続きを見る

How representations of the preparation, sale, and consumption of leftovers in nineteenth-century urban France link socioeconomic and aesthetic history The concept of the “harlequin” refers to the pr……続きを見る

Join me, your intrepid adventurer, as I journey through the heart of Greece's legendary capital. From the iconic heights of the Acropolis to the secret corners of ancient ruins, uncover the untold s……続きを見る

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and present……続きを見る

Picasso was born a Spaniard and, so they say, began to draw before he could speak. As an infant he was instinctively attracted to artist’s tools. In early childhood he could spend hours in happy con……続きを見る

Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sc……続きを見る

In the Victorian era, England – swept along by the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite fold, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts movement – aspired to return to traditional values. Wishing……続きを見る

Impressionism has always been one of the public’s favourite styles of art and Impressionist works continue to enchant beholders with their amazing play of colours and forms. This book offers a well-……続きを見る

Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary,……続きを見る

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstoo……続きを見る

Spanish architect and designer, Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) was an important and influential figure in the history of contemporary Spanish art. His use of colour, application of a range of materials an……続きを見る

“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisu……続きを見る

Marc Chagall was born into a strict Jewish family for whom the ban on representations of the human figure had the weight of dogma. A failure in the entrance examination for the Stieglitz School did ……続きを見る

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at the ……続きを見る

Dürer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and ment……続きを見る

Michelangelo, like Leonardo, was a man of many talents; sculptor, architect, painter and poet, he made the apotheosis of muscular movement, which to him was the physical manifestation of passion. He……続きを見る

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist to the ……続きを見る

Pierre Bonnard was the leader of a group of Post-Impressionist painters who called themselves the Nabis, from the Hebrew word meaning “prophet”. Bonnard, Vuillard, Roussel and Denis, the most distin……続きを見る

Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the……続きを見る

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of……続きを見る

Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) était un peintre russe qui fut l'un des premiers à réellement s'aventurer dans l'art abstrait. Il s'évertua à représenter son monde intérieur d'abstraction malgré les c……続きを見る

Punk meets Druidry in the only trade edition of Jamie Reid's art, weaving c.180 radical art images into the structure of the pagan Wheel of the Year. The art is selected and introduced by curator St……続きを見る

Henri de Toulouse-Latrec experienced a life of deformity and disappointment. He left an artistic legacy beyond praise or price. Though his friends were the great personages of his time, he was perpe……続きを見る