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William Bouguereau (1825-1905) was a highly important and influential French academic painter, who taught a long succession of gifted students, primarily at the private Academie ...
Proclaimed "the most illustrious of illustrators," Gustave Dore is best known for his engravings, which appeared in editions of the Bible, Dante's Inferno, Poe ...
A new biography of Michelangelo by Martin Gayford, the acclaimed author of Constable in Love and The Yellow House. There was an epic sweep to ...
Apocalypse then. This title features newly uncovered illuminations from the Renaissance depicting miraculous phenomena. The Book of Miracles that first surfaced a few years ago ...
How to Read an Impressionist Painting is a new, original exploration of the 19th-century art movement that changed art for ever, and made household names ...
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, widely considered the greatest Flemish painter of the 16th century, was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman known for his landscapes ...
John Singer Sargent's approach to watercolour was unconventional.
Disregarding late-nineteenth-century aesthetic standards that called for carefully delineated and composed landscapes filled with transparent washes ...
Today we view Cezanne as a monumental figure, but during his lifetime (1839 1906), many did not understand him or his work. With brilliant insight ...
The first biography since 1877 of Venice's greatest artist - a towering work which captures the genius of Titian, beautifully illustrated throughout with full colour ...
In 1578 a labyrinth of underground burials was discovered in Rome that contained the remains of thousands of individuals assumed to be early Christian martyrs ...
Cezanne is the exemplary artist-creator of the modern age. Revered and misunderstood by his peers, lauded by later generations as the 'father of modern art ...
A sweeping, epic history of the Renaissance artists, seen through the lens of something that perhaps occupied their thoughts and influenced their art the most ...
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) felt a profound empathy with the natural environment, and considered the spiritual essence of trees to be comparable with that of ...
. A comprehensive reference book on the life and works of Diego Velazquez, the most important painter in the Spanish Habsburg court of King Philip IV ...
Van Eyck in Detail opens with a biographical note on the artist and an introductory chapter on the technique of oil painting. Organized by theme ...