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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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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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American Realism
Gerry Souter
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845750
Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images. Their paintings are a true hymn to noise and sensations. This unconventional movement ...
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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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