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In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris’ Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing t……続きを見る

Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Esq., R.A., Composed Chiefly of His Letters by Charles Robert Leslie is one of the most intimate and revealing artist biographies ever written ー a portrait no……続きを見る

Why has Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles, defining symbol of hedonistic opulence in 17th-century France and synonymous with the notion of the divine right of kings, continued to shape the aesthetics……続きを見る

This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open……続きを見る

The Dwellings of the Labouring Classes: Their Arrangement and Construction by Henry Roberts is a pioneering work on social housing design, published in the mid-19th century during a time of rapid ur……続きを見る

"I really enjoyed the book's gung-ho style." - Simon Broughton ー Songlines, London ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Gleefully blunt." - D……続きを見る

This is our celebration of an amazing, somewhat undiscovered, wild corner of Europe where the cork oaks and holm oaks grow and give savanna character to an arid landscape that looks hard and difficu……続きを見る

In Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelites, close to William Morris' Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing t……続きを見る

Arte bresciana e cremonese a Casalmoro «Nell’intento di contribuire alla conoscenza dei suoi monumenti architettonici e dei tesori d’arte inediti in essi custoditi, la parrocchia di Casalmoro pubbli……続きを見る

For thousands of years an enigmatic and astonishingly beautiful piece of Roman art has captivated those who have come in contact with it.Made before the birth of Christ, the Portland Vase, as it is ……続きを見る

This study provides new interpretations of the little-known but fascinating Palazzo Trinci frescoes, relating them for the first time both to their physical context and to their social, political, a……続きを見る

An essential examination of how emigration and resettlement defined modernism In the fraught years leading up to World War II, many modern artists and architects emigrated from continental Europe to……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

À l’époque victorienne, l’angleterre, balayée par la révolution industrielle, la confrérie préraphaélite, William morris et le mouvement Arts and Crafts, aspirait à un retour aux valeurs passées. so……続きを見る

Zur Zeit des viktorianischen Englands, getrieben von der Industriellen Revolution, hatte die Gruppe der Präraffaeliten, darunter Maler wie John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti und Edward Bur……続きを見る

Esclusa l’arte letteraria, perchè si serve delle parole, le quali sono segni d’espressione convenzionali, Sully Prudhomme comprende fra le belle arti l’architettura, la scultura, la danza, la musica……続きを見る

A leading art historian presents a new grammar for understanding the meaning and significance of print In process and technique, printmaking is an art of physical contact. From woodcut and engraving……続きを見る

Canterbury Cathedral, at the heart of the Church in England since the arrival of Augustine in Kent in 597 C.E., is remarkable for its extent, beauty and importance, for the variety of its architectu……続きを見る

Foreword by Rob Sheffield Filled with stunning full-color infographics, a unique, album-by-album visual history of the evolution of the Beatles that examines how their style, their sound, their inst……続きを見る

WINNER OF THE PARIS BOOK FESTIVAL 2017, ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORY This book is a collaborative project conceived by two old friends inspired by Paris. The writer, Robin Bower, and the artist, Chr……続きを見る

My e-book looks at thefts of Rembrandt paintings and etchings during the 20th century from 1921-1983. The Dutch artist was a master of using light and shadows and his paintings are coveted perhaps m……続きを見る

Die erzgebirgischen Ortspyramiden zählen zu den eindrucksvollsten Kunstwerken im sächsischen »Weihnachtsland". Sie sind der Stolz ihrer Gemeinden und Ausdruck eines einzigartigen Traditionsbewusstse……続きを見る

The opulence of Byzantine art, with its extravagant use of gold and silver, is well known. Highly skilled artists created powerful representations reflecting and promoting this society and its value……続きを見る

THE SCULPTOR WHO CARVED THE FACES OF AMERICA'S HEROIC DEAD ON GRANITE MOUNTAINSーAND THEY WERE SELDOM BIG ENOUGH. First published in 1952, Robert John Casey co-wrote this fascinating biography with ……続きを見る

Catalogo della Mostra aperta a Gaeta – Pinacoteca Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea “Giovanni da Gaeta” dal 19 gennaio al 20 marzo 2018. Le opere qui raccolte sono state realizzate dagli artisti dello S……続きを見る

«Baudelaire aveva la capacità folgorante di percepire ciò che è. Come John Donne, di qualsiasi cosa scrivesse, faceva risuonare nel suo verso, nella sua prosa una vibrazione che invadeva ogni angolo……続きを見る

William Holman Hunt (1827 – 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid color, and e……続きを見る

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Monuments Men: "An astonishing account of a little-known American effort to save Italy's…art during World War II." ーTom Brokaw When Hitler’s ……続きを見る

Dans une Angleterre victorienne emportée par les rapides évolutions de la révolution industrielle, la confrérie préraphaélite, proche des Arts & Crafts de William Morris, prôna le retour aux valeurs……続きを見る

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz i……続きを見る