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 ...

777円 In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo. From the moment of its discovery a battle for possession ensued and was won, eventually, by the French...

1,060円 Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) intensiviertseine zeichnerische Tätigkeit als etwa 10-Jähriger und besucht ab 1854 in der Zeichen- und Mathematikschule La Petite ÉcoleKurse von Henri Lecoq de Boisbaudran (1802-1897) und des MalersJean-Hilaire Belloc (1786-1866). Dort entdeckt er für sich die Bildhauere...

1,060円 Amedeo Modigliani wurde 1884 in Livorno (Italien) geboren und starb im Alter von 35 Jahren in Paris. Die einzigartige visionäre Kraft des Künstlers speiste sich aus drei Quellen: Neben seiner Aufgeschlossenheit gegenüber seinem italienischen und klassischen Erbe zeigte er Verständnis für französi...

2,102円 Benvenuto Cellini was a celebrated Renaissance sculptor and goldsmith - a passionate craftsman who was admired and resented by the most powerful political and artistic personalities in sixteenth-century Florence, Rome and Paris. He was also a murderer and a braggart, a shameless adventurer who at...

3,560円 Volume Two picks up where Volume One ended, guiding you easily and seamlessly into the more advanced tools and techniques of soapstone carving. I would like to thank all of the people who bought the first book, as your comments and questions assisted in developing the contents of this book. In th...

850円 If you have ever wanted to sculpt or build in a permanent material that is extremely strong and can be moulded to any shape, ferrocement is the medium for you - and this concise book shows you how. Tools, techniques and sample projects - a garden pot, angel, dome, and more - are all logically des...

1,326円 Winner of the 2010 Donald Grant Creighton Award Artist Frances Gage, born in 1924 in Windsor, experienced both artistic recognition and acute despair in her life, yet she flourished in her work and as part of the contemporary Toronto art scene. A friend of Frances Loring and Florence Wyle, she de...

1,060円 Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) Picasso naquit en Espagne et l’on dit même qu’il commença à dessiner avant de savoir parler. Enfant, il fut nstinctivement attiré par les instruments de l’artiste. Il pouvait passer des heures de joyeuse concentration à dessiner des spirales pourvues d...

3,560円 This handbook provides the definitive guide to commissioning contemporary art. Every step and stage is revealed and demystified from the initial invitation to an artist to the financing of a project, from the drafting of contracts to the final siting and installation of works, from the care and p...

6,493円 Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious paintings. Despite its reputation as an art-historical text, this is the first English-language translation of Il Riposo to be published. A distillatio...

18,706円 This book examines the functions of sculpture during the Preclassic period in Mesoamerica and its significance in statements of social identity. Julia Guernsey situates the origins and evolution of monumental stone sculpture within a broader social and political context and demonstrates the role ...