Kunstwissenschaften

Shoes

Klaus Carl

Shoes

Klaus Carl

Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which ...

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Ukiyo-E 120 illustrations

Dora Amsden / Woldermar von Seidlitz

Ukiyo-E 120 illustrations

Dora Amsden / Woldermar von Seidlitz

Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) is a branch of Japanese art which originated during the period of prosperity in Edo (1615-1868). Characteristic of this period, the prints are the co...

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Virgin Portraits

Klaus Carl

Virgin Portraits

Klaus Carl

During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas, often rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. Over centuries in religious...

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Claude Monet and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

Claude Monet and artworks

Natalia Brodskaya

For Claude Monet the designation ‘impressionist’ always remained a source of pride. In spite of all the things critics have written about his work, Monet continued to be a true impressionist t...

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Persian Miniatures 120 illustrations

Anatoli Ivanov / Vladimir Loukonine

Persian Miniatures 120 illustrations

Anatoli Ivanov / Vladimir Loukonine

Encounter one of history’s greatest civilisations through miniatures. In Persian Miniatures, the story of the magnificent Persian Empire is told by way of a small but vibrant artistic tradition....

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Persische Miniaturen 120 Illustrationen

Anatoli Ivanov / Vladimir Loukonin

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Persische Miniaturen 120 Illustrationen

Anatoli Ivanov / Vladimir Loukonin

Dieses Buch stellt eine der größten Zivilisationen der Welt durch seine Miniaturmalerei vor und erzählt die Geschichte des großartigen Perserreiches mithilfe seiner Tradition einer kleinen, ab...

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Raphael and artworks

Eugene Müntz

Raphael and artworks

Eugene Müntz

Raphael was the artist who most closely resembled Pheidias. The Greeks said that the latter invented nothing; rather, he carried every kind of art invented by his forerunners to such a pitch of pe...

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Auguste Rodin and artworks

Rainer Maria Rilke

Auguste Rodin and artworks

Rainer Maria Rilke

Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though ...

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Vincent Van Gogh and artworks

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh and artworks

Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunder...

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Paul Klee and artworks

Donald Wigal

Paul Klee and artworks

Donald Wigal

An emblematic figure of the early 20th century, Paul Klee participated in the expansive Avant-Garde movements in Germany and Switzerland. From the vibrant Blaue Reiter movement to Surrealism at th...

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Love

Jp. A. Calosse

Love

Jp. A. Calosse

A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists ...

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Alphonse Mucha and artworks

Patrick Bade

Alphonse Mucha and artworks

Patrick Bade

Born in 1860 in a small Czech town, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was an artist on the forefront of Art Nouveau, the modernist movement that swept Paris in the 1910s, marking a return to the simplici...

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Natural Curiosities

Alfred Russel Wallace

Natural Curiosities

Alfred Russel Wallace

Reflecting their owner’s taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centu...

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Louis Comfort Tiffany and artworks

Charles De Kay

Louis Comfort Tiffany and artworks

Charles De Kay

A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth...

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Katsushika Hokusai and artworks

C.J. Holmes

Katsushika Hokusai and artworks

C.J. Holmes

Without a doubt, Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous Japanese artist since the middle of the nineteenth century whose art is known to the Western world. Reflecting the artistic expression of an ...

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Pre-Raphaelites 120 illustrations

Robert de la Sizeranne

Pre-Raphaelites 120 illustrations

Robert de la Sizeranne

In the Victorian era, England – swept along by the Industrial Revolution, the Pre-Raphaelite fold, William Morris, and the Arts and Crafts movement – aspired to return to traditional values. W...

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Opium. The Flowers of Evil

Donald Wigal

Opium. The Flowers of Evil

Donald Wigal

Opium, once used for ritual purposes, is a substance which dulls pain and offers access to an artificial world, and has long been idealized by artists and markets. Baudelaire, Picasso, and Dickens...

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Jules Pascin and artworks

Alexandre Dupouy

Jules Pascin and artworks

Alexandre Dupouy

Today still considered a “Bad Boy”, Pascin was a brilliant artist who lived and worked in the shadow of contemporaries such as Picasso, Modigliani, and several others. A specialist of the femi...

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Art of India 120 illustrations

Vincent Arthur Smith

Art of India 120 illustrations

Vincent Arthur Smith

If the ‘Palace of Love’, otherwise known as the Taj Mahal, is considered to be the emblem of Mughal Art, it is by no means the sole representative. Characterised by its elegance, splendor, and...

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Paul Signac and artworks

Paul Signac

Paul Signac and artworks

Paul Signac

Inspired by Monet’s work at a young age, Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a friend and disciple of Georges Seurat who combined the scientific precision of pointillism with the vivid colors and emotio...

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