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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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Portugal has developed a special cultural landscape due to its location between the Atlantic Ocean and neighboring Spain. North African, Moorish in...

With Art Nouveau there developed a new, international style under various names in the architecture and handicrafts from the 1880s onwards that sou...

Discover the transformative power of self-discovery and personal growth in this compelling read. This book invites you on a journey that will chall...

Between 1890 and the beginning of the First World War, a new international style developed in architecture and design. Following the example of the...

Misunderstood during his lifetime and branded as “the crazy man with the red hair," Vincent van Gogh is one of the most famous artists of all time....

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 ...