1,060円 Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569) Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations. D'abord dessinateur avant de devenir peintre, il peignit des thèmes religieux, comme la Tour de Babel, avec des couleurs extr...

421円 Now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer specialised in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life in his home city of Delft. The artist’s reputation fell into obscurity after his death and it was not until the 19th century that his work was re...

4,908円 When in their lives do great artists produce their greatest art? Do they strive for creative perfection throughout decades of painstaking and frustrating experimentation, or do they achieve it confidently and decisively, through meticulous planning that yields masterpieces early in their lives? B...

2,801円 The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. T...

322円 This is a Mexican codex, one in a series of ten codexes from the Aztec empire which the are being published for the first time ever in digital form this year. They’re hundreds of years old, and date from the time of the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Delight in them. Linger over the images.

6,898円 Ancient Greek sculpture seems to have a timeless quality – provoking reactions that may range from awe to alienation. Yet it was a particular product of its age: and to know how and why it was once created is to embark upon an understanding of its 'Classic' status. In this richly illustrated and ...

6,134円 Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe brings to Melville's work the insight not only of an art critic and theorist, but of a practicing artist as well. Navigating through the complexity of contemporary thought and philosophy, Gilbert-Rolfe unravels the Gordian knot of the diverse discourses that circumscribe Melv...

1,989円 Auguste Macke (1887-1914) est un maître de l’expressionnisme allemand, un mouvement qui s’est développé au début des années 1900. Les expressionnistes voulaient utiliser l’art pour dépeindre les émotions davantage que les choses matérielles et la réalité, en insistant particulièrement sur les idé...

3,418円 In The Science of Culture and the Phenomenology of Styles, Renato Barilli examines the history of artistic style in relation to scientific discovery. Applying an innovative analysis, he illustrates the subtle, yet intrinsic, connection between paradigm shifts in the sciences and in the arts. Bari...

10,280円 A feminist literary theorist, specialist in Rembrandt, and a scholar with a knack for reading Old Testament stories, Mieke Bal weaves a tapestry of signs and meanings that enrich our senses. Her subject is the act of showing, the gesture of exposing to view. In a museum, for example, the object i...

5,440円 Paul G. Bahn provides a richly illustrated overview of prehistoric rock art and cave art from around the world. Summarizing the recent advances in our understanding of this extraordinary visual record, he discusses new discoveries, new approaches to recording and interpretation, and current probl...

1,060円 Degas bezog seine wichtigsten Motive aus dem lebendigen Paris der Epoche und lernte die künftigen Impressionisten wahrscheinlich erst im Café Guerbois kennen. Im Jahr 1852 erhielt er ein Juradiplom, und 1853 begann er eine Malerausbildung bei Louis-Ernest Barrias. Ab 1854 reiste Degas regelmäßig ...