Parkstone International: 854 books

Cover of L'Art baroque
by Victoria Charles, Klaus Carl
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014

La période baroque s’étend du début du XVIIe siècle au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Réponse des artistes à l’exigence de grandeur solennelle prônée par l’Église catholique de l’après concile de Trente, l’art baroque, par sa monumentalité et son emphase, séduisit les grandes cours...
Cover of Pierre Paul Rubens
by Maria Varshavskaya, Xenia Yegorova
Language: French
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Mondialement célèbre pour ses nus sensuels, aux formes généreuses, Pierre Paul Rubens (1577-1640), était un artiste dont la préoccupation première était la sensualité. Ce maître baroque, célébrera toute sa vie les plaisirs et l’émerveillement que procure le corps. Il estimait que le...
Cover of La vie et les chefs-d'œuvre de J.M.W. Turner
by Eric Shanes
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Joseph Mallord William Turner (Londres, 1775 – 1851) A 15 ans, Turner exposait déjà une Vue de Lambeth. Il acquit très tôt la réputation d'un aquarelliste extrêmement habile. Disciple de Girtin et de Cozens, il montra par son choix et la façon de présenter ses thèmes une imagination pittoresque...
Cover of Turner
by Eric Shanes
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Joseph Mallord William Turner (Londres, 1775 – 1851) A 15 ans, Turner exposait déjà une Vue de Lambeth. Il acquit très tôt la réputation d'un aquarelliste extrêmement habile. Disciple de Girtin et de Cozens, il montra par son choix et la façon de présenter ses thèmes une imagination pittoresque...
Cover of William Blake
by Osbert Burdett
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Figure majeure du mouvement romantique, le britannique William Blake (1757-1827) fut à la fois peintre, dessinateur, graveur et poète. L’artiste s’attachant à illustrer lui-même son Œuvre littéraire, les textes de Blake se développent suivant les lignes de ses gravures et dessins hallucinés,...
Cover of Miguel Angel
by Eugène Müntz
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 7, 2014

Miguel Ángel, como Leonardo, fue una persona con muchos talentos: escultor, arquitecto, pintor y poeta. Alcanzó la cima de la representación del movimiento muscular, que el entendía como la manifestación de la pasión. Modeló, dobló, retorció y estiró sus dibujos hasta el límite de sus posibilidades....
Cover of The Fauves
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014

Born at the dawn of the 20th century, Fauvism burst onto the artistic scene at the 1905 Salon d'Automne with great controversy by throwing bright, vibrant colours in the face of artistic convention. Fuelled by change, artists like Matisse, Derain, and Vlaminck searched for a new chromatic language...
Cover of 1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014

From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, decorative art has been a fundamental part of the human experience for generations. While fine art is confined to galleries and museums, decorative art is the art of the every day, combining beauty with functionality in objects ranging from the...
Cover of Vincent van Gogh
by Victoria Charles, Vincent van Gogh
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014

The incarnation of the myth of a cursed artist, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is a legend who became a reference for modern art. An Expressionist during the Post-Impressionist movement, his art was misunderstood during his lifetime. In Holland, he partook in the Dutch realist painting movement by studying...
Cover of Gaudí
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Spanish architect and designer Antoni Gaudí (18521926) was an important and influential figure in the history of modern Spanish art. The use of colour, wide-ranging materials and introduction of organic forms into his constructions were an innovation in the realm of architecture. In his journal Gaudí...
Cover of Courbet
by Patrick Bade
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster...
Cover of Vincent van Gogh
by Victoria Charles
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012

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...
Cover of Caravage
by Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610) Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592. Là, il commença à peindre en faisant preuve de réalisme et de psychologie dans la représentation de ses modèles....
Cover of Pieter Brueghel
by Emile Michel, Victoria Charles
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Pieter Bruegel, l'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569) Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d'une famille d'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations. D'abord dessinateur avant de devenir peintre, il peignit des thèmes religieux, comme la Tour de Babel, avec des couleurs...
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