300円 Orazio Lomi Gentileschi was the father of the woman artist, Artemisia Gentileschi. Orazio was born in Tuscany, the son of a Florentine goldsmith. Much of his early work in Rome was to paint in cooperation with other artists. He painted the figures for the landscapes of Agostino Tassi at Palazzo R...

1,792円 'Rembrandt is een moderne kunstenaar, per ongeluk drie eeuwen te vroeg geboren.' Mark Rothko In Rembrandt neemt de bekende kunsthistoricus Nils Büttner de lezer mee naar de Gouden Eeuw. Büttner presenteert aan de hand van bronnen uit Rembrandts tijd een genuanceerde kijk op diens leven en op de b...

6,082円 Since 2010 Greece has been experiencing the longest period of austerity and economic downturn in its recent history. Economic changes may be happening more rapidly and be more visible than the cultural effects of the crisis which are likely to take longer to become visible, however in recent time...

2,284円 No.4 Breestraat, Amsterdam, is an imposing 17th century house, but little different from many big old houses in the city. What makes it exceptional is that for twenty years one of the world's greatest artists lived here - Rembrandt van Rijn, master painter of the time. This is the story of that h...

2,402円 Before unification, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread. It was known across Europe for the plentiful supply of consorts to be found among its abundant royalty, but the language and culture was largely incom...

300円 Gonzalès's work, according to some art historians, cannot be considered innovative but has charm and a sense of sincere personal expression, which gives her considerable value. Salon reviewers appreciated Gonzalès' paintings for their natural intuition with which she had expressed her art, as wel...

300円 The paintings of Labille-Guiard and Vigée-Le Brun are often compared by critics, with Vigée-Le Brun usually receiving more favorable reviews. Labille-Guard's early masterpiece "Self-Portrait with Two Students" is influenced by the style of Vigée-Le Brun. Labille-Guiard's works of art are now cons...

2,115円 The Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reform-school system, Radiodiffusion Française commissioned Genet to write about his experience as a juvenile delinquent. He sent back a...

9,616円 This is the first book to focus on Helhesten (The Hell-Horse), an avant-garde artists’ collective active during the Nazi occupation of Denmark and one of the few tangible connections between radical European art groups from the 1920s to the 1960s. The Danes’ deliberately unskilled painterly abstr...

2,122円 The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century. A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dream...

2,255円 Adolf Hitler's obsession with art not only fueled his vision of a purified Nazi state--it was the core of his fascist ideology. Its aftermath lives on to this day. Nazism ascended by brute force and by cultural tyranny. Weimar Germany was a society in turmoil, and Hitler's rise was achieved not o...

10,280円 For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of our perceptionーwhat we see and cannot see, the nature of representationーas a philosophical system for presenting ideas, and explored perspective as ...