Art History category: 15294 books
The Nine Pillars of History
A Guide for Peace, a Personal Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2016
Human society, as we know it, goes back some 200,000 years to a time when we learned to speak and communicate our thoughts. The Nine Pillars of History are defined from nine basic requirements for a healthy and prosperous society during the following 190,000 years of Hunting and Gathering. Sexuality,...
John Singer Sargent and His Muse
Painting Love and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the first time. In a score of paintings created between...
The Monuments Men
Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2009
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe.
The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he planned to collect as well as the art he would destroy: "degenerate" works...
The Da Vinci Deception
An Inspector Jack Oxby Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
Celebrated thriller writer Thomas Swan introduces Scotland Yard Inspector Jack Oxby in The Da Vinci Deception—an exhilarating thriller set in the art world. Racing from London to New York to Lake Como, Inspector Oxby is on the hunt for an art forger whose daring attempts to counterfeit the great...
by Johannes Vermeer, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age, Johannes Vermeer specialised in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life in his home city of Delft. The artist’s reputation fell into obscurity after his death and it was not until the 19th century that his work was rediscovered...
Civilizing Rituals
Inside Public Art Museums
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2005
Illustrated with over fifty photos, Civilizing Rituals merges contemporary debates with lively discussion and explores central issues involved in the making and displaying of art as industry and how it is presented to the community.
Carol Duncan looks at how nations, institutions and private...
I Was Vermeer
The Rise and Fall of the Twentieth Century's Greatest Forger
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Frank Wynne's remarkable book tells the story of Han van Meegeren, a paranoid, drug-addicted, second-rate painter whose Vermeer forgeries made him a secret superstar of the art world. During van Meegeren's heyday as a forger of Vermeers, he earned the equivalent of fifty million dollars, the acclaim...
by A J Blakemont
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
“If you are looking for a clear and concise guide to all aspects of The Gothic, ranging from literature to architecture, history to visual arts, music to fashion, horror to fantasy, subculture to philosophy, and more besides, then this is for you.” John Nicholls, University of Hull What...
Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum
Exchanging Views of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
The Victorian era heralded an age of transformation in which momentous changes in the field of natural history coincided with the rise of new visual technologies. Concurrently, different parts of the British Empire began to more actively claim their right to being acknowledged as indispensable contributors...
by Peter Russell, Camille Pissarro
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Camille Pissarro was a key figure in the history of Impressionism, being the only artist to show his work in all eight Impressionist exhibitions, remaining dedicated to the movement’s artistic beliefs. His paintings combine a fascination of rural subject matter with the empirical study of nature...
by Ross King
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era...
Italian Renaissance Art
Understanding its Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
A smart, elegant, and jargon-free...
by Shirley Neilsen Blum
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
A fresh look at the early Renaissance, considering Florentine and Netherlandish art as a single phenomenon, at once deeply spiritual and entirely new.Adam and Eve are driven from the Garden of Eden into a rocky landscape, their naked bodies lit by a cold sun, their gestures and expressions a study in...
Capital Culture
J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time,...