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Leonardo da Vinci volume 2
Eugène Müntz
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859950630
“Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and ...
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Leonardo da Vinci volume 1
Eugène Müntz
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859950562
“Studying nature with passion, and all the independence proper to his character, he could not fail to combine precision with liberty, and truth with beauty. It is in this final emancipation, this perfect mastery of modelling, of illumination, and ...
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Remington
Frederic Remington
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846375
Frederic Remington (1861-1909) was one of the last American artists to offer his contemporaries a vision of the American Old West, that wild terrain with its immense prairies, herds of bison and the last American Indians. A painter, but above all ...
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Jasper Johns
Catherine Craft
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845576
At a time when the dominant mode of painting,Abstract Expressionism,emphasized expressive drama through bold brushwork and largely abstract compositions, Johns’ paintings of the American flag, targets, numbers and the alphabet demonstrated a ...
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Hokusai
Edmond De Goncourt
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846528
Katsushika Hokusai is without a doubt the most famous Japanese artist known in the Western world since the middle of the nineteenth century.
Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai, one of the first ...
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Botticelli
Victoria Charles
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Emile Gebhart
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844846436
The Medici court painter Botticelli is one of the unequivocal artists of the Italian Renaissance alongside Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael. Favouring feminine portraits, Botticelli stands apart through the finesse of his lines and the ...
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Gustave Courbet
Georges Riat
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859956861
Child of materialism and positivism, Courbet was without a doubt one of the most complex painters of the nineteenth century. Symbolising the rejection of traditions, Courbet did not hesitate to confront the public with the truth by liberating ...
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William Morris
Arthur Clutton-Brock
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859956335
Considered one of the most prominent actors of the Victorian era, William Morris (1843-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, and editor, and did not hesitate to express his socialist political views, which at the time were frowned upon by the ...
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The Brueghels
Emile Michel
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Victoria Charles
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859954065
Pieter I Bruegel the Elder was born around 1525, probably near Breda, and died in 1569 in Brussels. In Antwerp, he studied as an apprentice underPieter Coeck, and later visited Italy to understand the reason for the growing influence of the ......
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Hans Memling
Albert Michiels
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845538
Born in Selingenstadt, Memling (1430/40-1494) left his native Germany to settle in Bruges in 1465, where the death of his supposed teacher, Rogier van der Weyden, left a near absence of competition. Unlike one of his predecessors, Van Eyck, ...
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