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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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Taiwan Art & Civilisation
Hsiu-Huei Wang
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859951385
Taiwan's specific situation in Asia is the source of its thorn past. Situated in the South East of China, Taiwan was at the crossroads of many maritime routes and squeezed between its neighbors, China and Japan. After centuries of foreign ...
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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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Fra Angelico
Stephan Beissel
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859956410
Guido di Petro was born in 1387 in Tuscany, near Fiesole. While still very young, he joined the Observant Dominican order, making the vow of absolute poverty and obedience. His talent soon proved useful as he began to paint miniatures for missals ...
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Edward Hopper Light and Dark
Gerry Souter
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859954201
Edward Hopper, born in Nyack in 1882, remains one of the most important American painters. After studying to be an illustrator, he entered the famous New York School of Art, where he studied under the direction of Robert Henri, whose influence on ...
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Caravaggio
Félix Witting
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M.L. Patrizi
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781844845545
It took a mid-twentieth century art show in Milan to rediscover this Italian artist, emblematic of the Baroque period, who lived during the second half of the 16th and first half of the 17th centuries. Michelangelo Merisi was born to a family of ...
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Greek Sculpture
Edmund Von Mach
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859950418
Greek Sculpture is probably the most well known aspect ofGreek art, for a contemporary it expresses the most beautiful ideal and plastic perfection. It is the first of the Ancient Arts that looked to free itself from the imitative constraints, of ......
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Erotic Fantasy
Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Parkstone International
ISBN : 9781859950616
Numerous and diverse points of view come together in this work, demonstrating the multiple aspects that sexuality can present. If nothing is more natural than sexual desire, it is nothing less than the forms by which this desire is expressed and ...
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