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Christ in Art
Ernest Renan
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844848096
Since the dawn of Christianity, artists have been fascinated and stirred by the figure of Christ. His likeness appears in frescoes on the walls of catacombs that date from Roman times; he is featured in the stained glass windows of Gothic churches; ...
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William Blake
Osbert Burdett
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846498
A major figure of the Romantic Movement, the British artist William Blake (1757-1827) was at once a painter, designer, engraver and poet. He devoted himself to the illustration of his literary works, and his texts developed following the lines of ...
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Surrealism
Nathalia Brodskaïa
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859950180
Surrealists appeared in the aftermath of World War I with a bang: revolution of thought, creativity, and the wish to break away from the past and all that was left in ruins.This refusal to integrate into the bourgeois society was also a leitmotiv ...
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Rivera
Gerry Souter
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846559
“I was aware of Diego Rivera, the Mexican muralist, long before I encountered the many other “Diego Riveras” that roamed the world between the beginning of the twentieth century and the late 1950s. […] While his easel paintings and drawings ...
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Romanticism
Léon Rosenthal
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844586
Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène ...
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The Pre-Raphaelites
Robert De La Sizeranne
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844593
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 to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian ...
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Expressionism
Ashley Bassie
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844579
Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often ...
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Romanesque Art
Victoria Charles
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Klaus Carl
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844609
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 their own unique style.In architecture as well as ......
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Gothic Art
Victoria Charles
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Klaus Carl
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844844616
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that evolved throughout Europe over more than 200 years.
Leaving curved Roman forms behind, the architects started using ...
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