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Vincent van Gogh   Birth name  Vincent Willem van Gogh Born  30 March 1853 (1853-03-30) Zundert, Netherlands Died  29 July 1890 (1890-07-30) (aged 37) Auvers-sur-Oise, France Nationality  Dutch Field  Painter Movement  Post-Impressionism Works ...

"Eine Wiederkehr an Orte der Vergangenheit ist nur sinnvoll, wenn sie die Erinnerung an das Leben an ihnen befördert, wieder auffrischt oder neu entdecken lässt." Bruno Flierl, geboren zur Zeit der Weimarer Republik in Schlesien, aufgewachsen in Nazi-Deutschland, am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs...

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was a British painter and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, mosaics and book illustration. He considered that art should be valued...

• illustration • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS THE FLORENTINE PAINTERS OF THE RENAISSANCE INDEX TO THE WORKS OF THE PRINCIPAL FLORENTINE PAINTERS

Have you ever wanted to know more about the Flemish painter named Jan van Eyck? Are you writing a research paper about him, or are just curious as to what some of his most famous paintings are?  If these questions peak your interest, then this book is for you! Over 1500 words all about...

Personal life The term "shakira" is the Arabic word "grateful". Shakira, the full name Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll, was born in Columbia on 2 February 1977. She is a successful singer in Latin America, but also all over the world. Her parents are Nydia del Carmen Ripoll Torrado,...

Termina con questo quinto volume, grazie alla trascrizione di Franca Linari e all'attenta cura di Francesca Nencioni, la pubblicazione dei Diari di Giuseppe Dessí iniziata con il racconto degli anni giovanili (1926-1931) e proseguita con dati preziosi sul periodo di formazione (1931-1948) e sulle...

Antoine Albalat, un grand érudit, nous décrit la vie et le caractère de Boileau pour permettre au lecteur de cerner le climat littéraire à l'époque de la parution de l' « Art poétique » ; A. Albalat traite entre autres sujets, de la pubication...

Robin Hood and His Adventures by Paul Creswick Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth "Robin Hood is a figure in archetypal English folk tales, whose story goes back to medieval times. In popular culture he is painted as a man known for robbing the rich to provide for the poor and fighting against...

In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. This... infinitely rewarding book is an account of his pilgrimage through life.' TimesBernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America, both as an artist-craftsman...

¿Puede compararse la pesadilla que sufre Josef K. en El proceso con el sueño de Alicia en el País de las Maravillas y en la Casa del Espejo? ¿Son los laberintos del tribunal kafkiano equiparables al laberinto carrolliano, donde viven el Sombrerero Loco, el gato de Cheshire y la Reina de Corazones?...

Gustave Doré was a French artist, engraver, illustrator and sculptor, best known for his illustrations of epic literature, such as those by Dante, Cervantes, Hugo, and Milton, as well as contemporary texts, such as those by Balzac. Doré worked primarily with wood engraving. He rarely...

In 1933 the author and political activist Heinrich Mann and his partner, Nelly Kroeger, fled Nazi Germany, finding refuge first in the south of France and later, in great despair, in Los Angeles, where Nelly committed suicide in 1944 and Heinrich died in 1950. Born into a wealthy middle-class family...

Com mais de 50 anos de carreira, personagens marcantes como o detetive Spirit, e ideias que revolucionaram a forma de contar histórias em quadrinhos, Will Eisner foi um pioneiro que alçou as HQs ao status de “nona arte”. Não é à toa que a principal premiação internacional para esse tipo...