Art

Art Nouveau, elegant ornamentation, and sensual women. Hardly any other artist proved a greater virtuoso in this style than Alphonse Mucha. Discove...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir put people into the center of his painting. His compositions showed people embracing the pleasures of life, dancing, and enjo...

His Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric and obsessive, created with his pictures...

His Great Wave off Kanagawa is the most famous work in East Asian art. Hokusai, a self-confessed eccentric and obsessive, created with his pictures...

Edgar Degas staged his paintings like a director and developed spectacular perspectives, radical images, and fleeting spaces. Numerous images of hi...

Edgar Degas staged his paintings like a director and developed spectacular perspectives, radical images, and fleeting spaces. Numerous images of hi...

From the medieval works of Romanesque and Gothic art to the golden age of the Baroque, from the famous Beatus Apocalypses to Diego Vel�zquez and Fr...

Painting from 1200 to 1500 is a mirror of its time, marked by deep religiousness as well as progressive tendencies, by economic prosperity as well ...

Between popular masterpieces and rather little known artists, this book unfolds nine centuries of the history of French painting.This book contains...

Between popular masterpieces and rather little known artists, this book unfolds nine centuries of the history of French painting.This book contains...

The father of impressionists, Camille Pissarro, was groundbreaking for the modern age. Whether it was painting or graphics, impressionism or pointi...

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec recorded unforgettable images of belle-�poque Paris in his paintings, lithographs, and posters. The posters created by th...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) is one of the most importantrepresentatives of naive art. His paintings, characterizedby a pronounced exoticism and a ch...

Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) is one of the most importantrepresentatives of naive art. His paintings, characterizedby a pronounced exoticism and a ch...

Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)...

Classical on account of his subjects, modern on account of his sense of composition, color, and light, the Nabis painter Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947)...

As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the most ...

As a painter, designer, sculptor, and also a collector of art, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was the leader of the Pont-Aven school and one of the most ...

The few surviving works by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch are among the most famous icons in art history. Unique hidden-book-like works of horro...

The few surviving works by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch are among the most famous icons in art history. Unique hidden-book-like works of horro...

Best known for his portraits and paintings of historical subjects, Rembrandt has influenced Western art more than probably any other artist. Even i...

A divine painter and universal genius, Leonardo da Vinci continues to fascinate us almost 500 years after his death. The works reproduced here allo...

About the Author Art historian Ruth Dangelmaier has worked for many years as a freelance writer and editor. She lives with her family in Colog...

About the Author Art historian Ruth Dangelmaier has worked for many years as a freelance writer and editor. She lives with her family in Colog...

William Turner was a shy loner and a bit of an eccentric, but also an extremely productive artist who quickly became one of the most successful pai...

William Turner was a shy loner and a bit of an eccentric, but also an extremely productive artist who quickly became one of the most successful pai...

Amedeo Modigliani’s favourite and most abiding motif was the human figure. His portraits of women, in particular, convey his sympathetic and highly...

Amedeo Modigliani’s favourite and most abiding motif was the human figure. His portraits of women, in particular, convey his sympathetic and highly...

An overview of the most important paintings of the Renaissance; includes more than 400 works. The origin of Renaissance painting lies in Italy. Wit...

Israel fascinates by its contrasts: unique cultural treasures, with biblical sites on the one hand and the pulsating life in metropolises like Tel ...

With over 450 works, this volume deals with the most important trends and groups in French painting from the middle of the 19th century to the firs...

Israel fascinates by its contrasts: unique cultural treasures, with biblical sites on the one hand and the pulsating life in metropolises like Tel ...

From the earliest examples of national art at the beginning of the 19th century and the romantic seascapes of Aivasovsky, to the great Realists suc...

The baroque period spanned the whole of Europe from 1600 to 1780. Beginning with Italian artists who brought drama to painting through dynamic comp...

Hiroshige is one of the most important artists of the Japanese woodblock print and is considered a master of "ukiyo-e," the "pictures of the floati...

More than 250 works by Albrecht D�rer are reproduced here to give the reader a comprehensive survey of the life and work of this unique and univers...

An eccentric exhibitionist, Egon Schiele documented the discord of his time in furious paintings of people and self-portraits. Schiele’s artistic u...

Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring is almost as famous as Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. And yet the life and work of the painter remains as eni...

An eccentric exhibitionist, Egon Schiele documented the discord of his time in furious paintings of people and self-portraits. Schiele’s artistic u...

Art Deco is the decorative, distinctly aesthetic style of the years between 1920 and 1940. The movement embraced all areas of lifestyle and art. Ar...

With more than eight million visitors a year, the Louvre is the museum with the most visits in the world. Its extensive collection of paintings ref...