Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A new and revised edition of this most comprehensive book on the life and work of Caravaggio published to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Caravaggio`s birth in July 2010.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: From the caves at Lascaux to the European race tracks of Degas to the American West of Frederic Remington, the horse has never ceased to inspire the human imagination. Once omnipresent — on the battlefield, in agricultural work, and in transport — horses have little by little disappeared from our immediate environment, but they remain fixtures throughout our museums, atop pedestals in our town…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: «Ancient Egyptian civilization developed its own highly individual manner of expressing visible and invisible worlds — earth and the domain of the gods — through distinctive «languages». This book presents an art, language, and culture of extraordinary richness.»
Скачать книгу (размер 2 232 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 439) Аннотация: With hundreds of photographs and an informative text, 80 Years of the Oscar takes readers behind the scenes, from the first awards show in 1928 to this year's 80th anniversary.
Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Few parents can resist the urge to photograph every adorable stage of their children's lives, but most do it more lovingly than well. No matter how doting they are, too often the results are blurry, overexposed, and uninspired snapshots. Guide to Photographing Children offers practical, detailed, unintimidating advice to help transform parents' enthusiasm into memorable photographs that capture…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: Features 25 frescoe cycles including works by Domenichino, Ricci, Guercino and Tiepolo. This work presents such celebrated sights as the Barberini Palace in Rome and the Pitti Palace in Florence, as well as lesser known gems. Each chapter offers a descriptive and interpretive essay on various aspects of the frescoe cycle.
Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Hieronymus Bosch is a stunningly illustrated, groundbreaking exploration of the work of Hieronymus Bosch, the Low Countries great visionary painter. Four hundred little people frolic au naturel with overgrown songbirds and raspberries; a pudgy blue demon serenades a fashionable young couple with a tune piped through his own elongated nose; a knife-wielding set of disembodied ears stalks the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Offers a way to appreciate the history of art and to understand that a self-portrait is more than merely a portrait of the artist. Presenting a definition of the self-portrait genre, this book focuses on the turning point for the establishment of the genre during the Renaissance when the status of the painter was raised from artisan to artist.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: «When Hesiod, the Greek poet of the eighth century B.C., recounted the history of the world as he understood it, he described the legendary first generation of mortal men, who lived in peace and ease, as the «people of gold». Nearly three millennia later, we still refer to a particularly happy or prosperous era as a «golden age». The reason Hesiod’s metaphor translates so perfectly into our own…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An elegantly produced volume which illustrates celebrated American metal sculptor Joel Perlman's finest works and relates them to his fascinating life story This handsomely illustrated book is the first monograph devoted to the work of Joel Perlman, an acclaimed sculptor in steel and bronze, whose works are represented in the permanent collections of America's top museums, including the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: The fourth, but the earliest volume chronologically, of the only comprehensive survey in modern times of the surviving Italian frescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Mannerism, this groundbreaking oeuvre is an achievement in scholarship and publishing of the same magnitude as Abbeville's Art of Florence and Art and Spirit of Paris . Following the success of the previous…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This sparkling edition of Audubons Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubons hand-colored engravings, graced with an illuminating introduction by Roger Tory Peterson that places Audubon in his ornithological and art historical context. Issued with the full endorsement and cooperation of the Audubon Society, the stunning Baby Elephant Folio — here reproduced in a miniature, gem-like…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: The name of John Singer Sargent evokes paintings of marvelously gowned Edwardian belles, of brooding aristocrats and princes of industry-insightful portraits executed with dazzling virtuosity. Sargent's enduring popularity has prompted a thoughtful reappraisal by prominent art critic Carter Ratcliff, who shows us the surprising breadth of the artist's work. Never before has a book so thoroughly…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: This book has long satisfied the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. It is the definitive study of the subject, filled with information and insight garnered through many years of far-ranging research. All the masterworks are here, from Childe Hassam's sun-drenched gardens to John Twachtman's snow-silenced landscapes, from Edmund Tarbell's coolly elegant ladies in dim, luxurious…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different atrists, this luscious book will thoroughly satisfy the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism. The fascinating text — written by Dr. William H. Gerdts, the preeminent scholar in the field — is the definitive study of the subject, filled with many years of far-ranging research. Documentary photographs of the artists and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Glorious works of art as well as chronicles of a past age, illuminated manuscripts supply perhaps the finest and best-preserved evidence of what life was like during the medieval and Renaissance periods. Illuminated Manuscripts: Treasures of The Pierpont Morgan Library draws on one of the most extraordinary collections of painted books in the world to illustrate the angels, demons, and everyday…
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «Sun-dappled carp, radiant blossoms, and tumultuous waters are among the wonders and mysteries of nature captured in Joseph Raffaels brilliant close-up paintings. At a time when beauty is much out of favor in the art world, Joseph Raffael has taken what some would consider the highly radical step of daring to paint beautiful pictures. Long one of contemporary arts most highly regarded painters,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Founded in 1824, the National Gallery houses a rich and comprehensive range of European painting from the Middle Ages to the 1920s. Among the works represented in this colorful and compact survey of the Gallerys collection are masterpieces by Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Edgar Degas, and Paul…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: With masters such as William Blake, William Hogarth, George Stubbs, Thomas Gainsborough, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and David Hockney, the Tate Gallery offers work to please every taste. The gallery, which was opened in London in the summer of 1897 by the Prince of Wales, is best…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 242) Аннотация: «With its lively narrative and profuse illustrations, this volume captures the visual riches of a remarkable era. Born in controversy, christened in scorn by a sarcastic critic, and developed amid a continuing struggle for recognition and solvency, French Impressionism finally emerged as a powerful and immensely popular artistic movement whose appeal remains undiminished today. «The Great Book of…