Publisher S13381: 113 books

This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of portrait drawings and paintings by Anders Zorn. Anders Zorn was natural from Yvraden, a rural community of Utmeland in the town of Mora, Dalarna. Zorn learned in the town-school at Mora previous to move in...

This book with introduction and annotations written by Raia Iotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1526 - 1593) was notorious mainly for his "combined portraits", parody images executed by mixing, in a kind of “optical illusion”,...

Hugo van der Goes is a famous and very original Flemish artist of altars and portraits. The artist has made many fundamental innovations in the painting of the epoch through his method of monumental painting, an individual palette of colours and as well with his specific portrait style. His masterpiece,...

Cornelis de Vos was a Flemish painter, master of drawings and art dealer. He has been one of the leading portraits in Antwerp and is best known for his brilliant technique in pictures, especially portraits of children and families. De Vos has been successful in other genres, including historical painting,...

Dirck van Baburen was native from Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family moved to Utrecht when he was still young. The earliest details of the artist are from 1611 in the record of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luca as a student of Paulus Moreelse. After 1612 he traveled to Rome. There he worked with his compatriot...

Hans Memling was a Flemish artist of German origin, who received his education and started his career in Germany, but then he continued to paint in Flanders. He was born and spent his childhood in Mainz, Germany. Later, he moved to Brussels for a while, where he worked and studied and painted in the...

He is regarded as the most famed and leading painter of Flemish Baroque movement. Peter Paul Rubens concentrated in painting church decorations, portrayals, landscape paintings, and thematically pictures with plots from mythology and ancient as well as allegorical themes. His perfectly constructed...

Bernard van Orley is one of the leading artists of the Flemish Renaissance. Characteristic of his work, which consists of painting, tapestry and stained glass, was the strong influence of the Italian Renaissance masters. This, along with several other great Flemish masters, makes him one of the pioneers...

Jacob de Backer (1555-1585) was a strange and little-known figure of which little is known. He lived for only 30 years, and he did not leave any signed by him a picture. He was certainly born and spent his entire life in Antwerp and worked as a contractor for an Italian painting trader. There is no...

Sesshū spent about 20 years in Kyoto and then went to the Yamaguchi prefecture to become the chief priest of the Unkoku Temple. At that time it began to be named Sesshū ("snow boat"). Yamaguchi was the place where many Japanese expeditions began in China, and perhaps Sesshū's choice for...

Rogier van der Weyden is known as one of the three Vlaamse Primitieven (early Flemish primitivists): the other two are Robert Campin and van Eyck. He achieved great success in the age in which he lived. His portraits and church paintings are sold all over Europe, particularly successful in Catholic...

Alexander Adriaenssen is a Flemish artist specializing in a painting of still-lifes paintings. He was born and lived in Antwerp where he received his initial training for an artist. He studied the art-craft in the urban guild of artists, where he apprenticed for almost 13 years before being awarded...

Seghers is best known for his monumental genre paintings and great religious and figurative works. He has completed many altars for churches in the South of Holland. Most of his pictures were performed in a horizontal format. Stylistically and thematically, Seghers has initially been strongly influenced...

This book with Foreword written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Robert Campin. Robert Campin (1375 –1444), recognized with the Master of Flémalle or Master of the Merode Triptych, was the one of the supreme masters of Early Netherlandish art. He was very popular...