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Cover of Caravage
by Félix Witting, Patrizi M.L.
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015

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 Fra Angelico
by Stephan Beissel
Language: French
Release Date: September 15, 2015

Fra Angelico (Fra Giovanni da Fiesole) (Vicchio di Mugello,1387 – Rome,1455) Isolé du monde par les murs d'un cloître, ce moine peintre, appartenant à l'ordre des dominicains, voua son existence à la peinture religieuse. On sait très peu de choses sur le début de sa vie, mis à part qu'il...
Cover of Léonard de Vinci
by Eugène Müntz
Language: French
Release Date: July 1, 2011

Léonard de Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Le Clos-Lucé, 1519) Léonard passa la première partie de sa vie à Florence, la seconde à Milan et ses trois dernières années en France. Le professeur de Léonard fut Verrocchio, d'abord orfèvre, puis peintre et sculpteur. En tant que peintre, Verrocchio était...
Cover of Les Primitifs Italien
by Joseph Archer Crowe, Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, Anna Jameson
Language: French
Release Date: May 10, 2014

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...
Cover of American Realism
by Gerry Souter
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

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...
Cover of Pollock
by Donald Wigal
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project...
Cover of Nicolas de Staël
by Nathalia Brodskaya
Language: French
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Nicolas de Staël, peintre français de famille russe, est né le 5 janvier 1914 à Saint-Pétersbourg et mort le 16 mars 1955 à Antibes. Son œuvre fut très fortement influencée par Cézanne, Van Gogh, Braque, Matisse et certains grands maîtres comme Rembrandt et Vermeer. Nicolas de Staël est...
Cover of Kahlo
by Gerry Souter
Language: French
Release Date: December 22, 2011

Frida Kahlo est devenue plus familière aux amateurs d’art après la sortie d’un film sur sa vie. Son OEuvre n’en reste pas moins compliqué dans son approche et sa compréhension. L’auteur, Gerry Souter, avec délicatesse et talent, explore les aspects les plus intimes de l’artiste et de...
Cover of Edouard Manet
by Emile Zola, Natalia Brodskaïa
Language: French
Release Date: March 10, 2014

Edouard Manet (Paris, 1832 – 1883) Manet est l'un des plus célèbres artistes de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle, lié aux impressionnistes sans faire vraiment partie de leur groupe. Chérissant son indépendance, il eut une grande influence sur la peinture française, en partie due au choix...
Cover of Turner
by Stéphanie Angoh
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an illustrator....
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...
Cover of The Life and Masterworks of J.M.W. Turner
by Eric Shanes
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an illustrator....
Cover of Constable
by Barry Venning
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015

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...
Cover of Kandinsky
by Mikhaïl Guerman
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2015

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in...
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