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Art of the Devil
Arturo Graf,
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846467
“The Devil holds the strings which move us!” (Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857.)
Satan, Beelzebub, Lucifer… the Devil has many names and faces, all of which have always served artists as a source of inspiration. Often commissioned by ...
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Art of Islam
Gaston Migeon
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Henri Saladin
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846580
Islamic art is not the art of a nation or of a people, but that of a religion: Islam. Spreading from the Arabian Peninsula, the proselyte believers conquered, in a few centuries, a territory spreading from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. ...
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Icons
Nikodim Pavlovich Kondakov
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845583
Icon painting has reached its zenith in Ukraine between the 11th and 18th centuries. This art is appealing because of its great openness to other influences – the obedience to the rules of Orthodox Christianity in its early stages, the borrowing ...
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Landscapes
Émile Michel
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844848218
Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own. Giorgione in Italy, the Brueghels of the Flemish School, Claude Lorrain and ...
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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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Figure Drawing For Dummies®
Kensuke Okabayashi
For Dummies
ISBN : 9780470390733
Figure Drawing For Dummies appeals to both new art students and veteran artists who find it difficult to proportionally draw the human form. The illustrations and examples inFigure Drawing For Dummies are designed to help readers capture this ......
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