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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 distillation...

Oscillant entre la majesté artificielle des icônes byzantines et la profondeur naturaliste initiée par Giotto, l’art des primitifs italiens incarne les premiers pas vers l’art de la Renaissance. S’essayant à d’autres supports, ces premiers artistes délaissèrent peu à peu la fresque...

Urban realism, snow-covered streets of New York, boxing matches, children on the banks of a river, the painters of the Ash Can School preferred realistic images. Their paintings are a true hymn to noise and sensations. This unconventional movement enabled the birth of a true national artistic identity...

The Blank Canvas offers solid advice for everyone who struggles with artist's block or other problems of creative expression, including: drawing subject matter from unexpected sources, mining one's daily visual responses for images, overcoming self-doubt and criticism, making choices when torn between several ideas, and getting started on assignments.

Dies ist ein Buch voller Gegensätze: Der jetzt 86-jährige frühere Uniprofessor Johannes Helm legt hier keine Abhandlung über sein früheres Fach, die Psychologie, vor, sondern nach 'Malgründen', 'Ellis Himmel' und 'Seh ich Raben, ruf ich, Brüder' wiederum eine Sammlung seiner Bilder mit den...

Il dipinto Alla stanga di Giovanni Segantini, uno dei pochissimi in collezione pubblica italiana, subí nel 1948 un atto vandalico e fu subito restaurato dall'Istituto Centrale del Restauro diretto da Cesare Brandi. L'intervento attuale, che ha confermato la piena efficacia del precedente, ha restituito...

Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Emil Nolde, E.L. Kirchner, Paul Klee, Franz Marc as well as the Austrians Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele were among the generation of highly individual artists who contributed to the vivid and often controversial new movement in early twentieth-century Germany...

The feature article presents an analysis of the picturesque canvases of one known young artist in Kazakhstan and abroad - Rafael Slekenov. In his works, there is a special rhythm of vanguard breathing, associated with unusual freedom in the choice of thought and methods of its artistic embodiment....

Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he painted large, complex scenes...

This book covers several different topics including: - Designing Custom Stained Glass - Decorating With Stained Glass - How To Install A Stained Glass Window - Sandblasting Stained Glass - Stained Glass Copper Foil Technique - Stained Glass Projects For Children and much more!...

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave...

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French painter, one of the most prolific artists active in the last decades of the Ancien Régime. Among his most popular works are genre paintings conveying an atmosphere of intimacy. Fragonard has been ranged with Watteau as one of the two great poetic painters of the 18th...

Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an isolated civilisation, the works of Hokusai - one of the first Japanese artists to emerge in Europe -...

La première rétrospective consacrée à Andrea Mantegna au musée du Louvre, à Paris, du 26 septembre 2008 au 5 janvier 2009, amène le visiteur au cœur du Quattrocento italien. Là, une confrontation perspicace des œuvres du maître avec celles de ses contemporains permet... À PROPOS...