164円 Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, military-engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. L...

1,317円 Plus vive que jamais, la question de 'l'identité' rebondit dans l'Europe mondialisée, mais c'est là un vieux problème. Se sentait-il Français, Rousseau, lui l'enfant de Genève? Et Benjamin Constant, ce Lausannois à l'aise en trois langues, universel lui aussi par sa pensée et son oeuvre littérair...

453円 The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx, first published in 1933, is one of the major works of the Russian aesthetician and literary critic Mikhail Aleksandrovich Lifshitz. The author and editor of numerous books and articles in Marxist aesthetics, including 'Marx and Engels on Art' 1933, and 'Lenin a...

463円 "The first steps of one interested in the formal style of landscape architecture should be directed to Italy." So wrote the great American designer Charles Platt in his introduction to his book, Italian Gardens, first published in 1894. Platt's words proved influential. Devoted solely to the topi...

453円 With the aging of Postmodernism, artists and academics are reappraising the aesthetics of Modernism. In this timeless classic, Ruskin offers criticism, appreciation, and instruction for artists at the very beginnings of the Modern movement. "As vital and relevant today as it was over a hundred ye...

300円 Luigi Lanzi's 'The History of Italian Painting' is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the evolution of Italian painting from its earliest manifestations to the Renaissance period. Lanzi skillfully dissects the artistic movements, techniques, and themes that defined Italian painting, of...

9,616円 Italian Painting in the Age of Unification reconstructs the artistic motivations and messaging of three artistsーTommaso Minardi, Francesco Hayez, and Gioacchino Tomaーfrom three distinct regions in Italy prior to, during, and directly following political unification in 1861. Each artist, working...

4,637円 How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi’s prying eyes. In fact, as Sara Blay...

4,179円 With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nile; dressed as Venus for a tryst at Tarsus; unfurled from a roll of linens before Caesar; couchant, the deadly asp clasped to her breast. Through su...

9,616円 This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide a series of case studies that reconsider t...

310円 Dans "Histoire de la peinture en France", V. Leroy-Saint-Aubert déploie une analyse exhaustive des mouvements et des figures emblématiques qui ont jalonné le parcours de la peinture française, des débuts du Moyen Âge jusqu'à l'époque contemporaine. L'ouvrage se distingue par son écriture érudite,...

310円 Dans "Études sur les beaux-arts en France", Charles Clément présente une exploration approfondie des mouvements artistiques qui ont marqué la France, mettant en exergue les liens entre l'art et la société. Clément analyse avec finesse la place des beaux-arts dans le paysage culturel français, en ...