Victoria Charles: 167 books

Book cover of Alphonse Mucha
by Patrick Bade, Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplicity of natural forms, and changing the world of art and design forever. In fact, Art Nouveau was known...
Book cover of Rococo
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014

Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the...
Book cover of Ivan Shishkin
by Victoria Charles, Irina Shuvalova
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Russian countryside is some of the world’s most lovely, from the celebrated explosions of wild flowers that fill its forests in the spring, to the icy winter tundra that defeated the advances of Napoleon and Hitler, and provided the backdrop for the drama of many of Russian literature’s celebrated...
Book cover of Art of the Eternal
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art world. An unlimited source of inspiration where artists can search for the expression of the infinite, death remains the object of numerous...
Book cover of Le Rococo
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014

En associant le mot rocaille, référence aux formes alambiquées des coquillages, à l’italien baroco, les Français donnèrent naissance au terme de « rococo ». Apparu au début du XVIIIe siècle, il s’étendit rapidement à l’ensemble de l’Europe. Extravagant et aérien, le Rococo répondait...
Book cover of Ivan Chichkine
by Victoria Charles, Irina Shuvalova
Language: French
Release Date: March 10, 2014

La campagne russe est l’une des plus charmantes du monde pour ses célèbres étendues de fleurs sauvages qui lui donnent un air de forêt au printemps, pour les hivers polaires de la toundra qui triomphèrent sur l’avancée de Napoléon ou Hitler et qui seront le cadre de nombreuses scènes célèbres...
Book cover of Bruegel
by François Émile Michel, Victoria Charles
Language: German
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Die Bruegels – allen voran Pieter der Ältere, zusammen mit seinen Söhnen Pieter („Höllenbruegel“) und Jan („Samt- oder Blumenbruegel“) – sind die bedeutendste flämische Malerfamilie. Ihre Werke sind Zeugnisse des unschätzbaren Beitrags, den diese Familie in der Entwicklung der Malerei...
Book cover of Die Bruegels
by Émile Michel, Victoria Charles
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Die Bruegels – allen voran Pieter der Ältere, zusammen mit seinen Söhnen Pieter („Höllenbruegel“) und Jan („Samt- oder Blumenbruegel“) – sind die bedeutendste flämische Malerfamilie. Ihre Werke sind Zeugnisse des unschätzbaren Beitrags, den diese Familie in der Entwicklung der Malerei...
Book cover of Iwan Schischkin
by Victoria Charles, Irina Shuvalova
Language: German
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Die russischen Landschaften gehören zu den schönsten der Welt, mit den berühmten Wildblumenteppichen in den Wäldern im Frühling und der eisigen Wintertundra, die das Vordringen Napoleons und Hitlers vereitelte, bilden sie die Kulisse für so viele bekannte Szenen der russischen Literatur. Und...
Book cover of Mega Box Set
by Alysha Williams, Norita Baxter, Chris Schilver
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2015

Erotica Authors Alysha Williams,Norita Baxter, Chris Schilver, G D Parkar, Victoria Charles Mountbatten, Will Hanks, Antonio Bernini & William H Bolton come together to give an extremely entertaining and spicy blockbuster of stories.
Book cover of Tod und Jenseits in der Kunst
by Victoria Charles
Language: German
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Seit Grabdenkmäler auf den Gräbern errichtet wurden, hat die Vorstellung vom Tod und vom Leben nach dem Tod einen wichtigen Stellenwert in der Kunstwelt erlangt. Der Tod, eine unbegrenzte Inspirationsquelle, in der Künstler nach dem Ausdruck des Unendlichen suchen können, ist das Motiv zahlreicher...
Book cover of Rokoko
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: German
Release Date: May 10, 2014

Das Wort Rokoko leitet sich wahrscheinlich von dem vermutlich in französischen Emigrantenkreisen aufgekommenen Wort ""rocaille"" (Muschel) ab. Diese Kunstrichtung entwickelte sich zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts und breitete sich schnell in ganz Europa aus. Ihre verspielten und...
Book cover of Renaissance Art
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude...
Book cover of Constable
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

John Constable was the first English landscape painter to take no lessons from the Dutch. He is rather indebted to the landscapes of Rubens, but his real model was Gainsborough, whose landscapes, with great trees planted in well-balanced masses on land sloping upwards towards the frame, have a rhythm...
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