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Scientist, artist, and explorer: Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) continues to fascinate with her highly detailed depictions of flowers, butterflies, and other insects, all done with vibrant colors. This volume includes many of Merian's most beautiful drawings and prints.
Overview in words and images of European painting during the second half of the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth century.
Brief overview of the life and work of the French sculptor (1840-1917).
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Platenboek met bekende en onbekende schilderijen en muurschilderingen uit de Renaissance vanaf de vroege veertiende eeuw in vooral Italië tot en met de late zestiende eeuw in Duitsland.
Rare design portfolio by high priest of Art Nouveau. Jewelry, wallpaper, stained glass, furniture; figure studies; plant and animal motifs, much more. This complete one-volume edition features all 72 stunning plates from Documents Décoratifs in original color.
A study of the frescos painted by Tiepolo for the Prince Bishop of Wurzburg between 1750 and 1753. The book provides a history of fresco painting and discusses the intricacies, iconography and importance of each scene at Wurzburg, and its development from
A divine painter and universal genius, Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate us almost 500 years after his death. The works reproduced here allow readers to rediscover the entire spectrum of da Vinci's prodigious artistic and scientific oeuvre.
The Art Deco style, named after the International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, reached its peak in the 1920s. A new artistic language driven by a vital impulse born of recent peace, left its mark on urban and domestic architecture, but also on all forms of design: furniture, mural painting, glassware, ceramics, and more. This book offers a magnificently illustrated panorama of this ornamental aesthetic, which blend into the world's artistic landscape with materials as luxurious as lacquer, ivory, or stingray.
The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in western art. Painters like Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Titian brought about a fundamental renewal that influenced all of Europe. More than fifty of the most important artists up to 1600 are presented in this book with more than 270 color illustrations.