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Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Carlo Collodi's universally acknowledged masterpiece of children's literature The Adventures of Pinocchio was first published in 1883.This fairy-tale, at once modern and timeless, has been the object of innumerable literary, theatrical, choreographic, film, television and comic strip adaptations, as well as being translated into hundreds of languages and being put to music. The adventures and the…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Ever since its invention in 1839, photography has had the ambition of reproducing everything and depicting the overall reality of the world. Given the long exposure times of the daguerrotype, the first photographic journeys were dedicated to landscapes and major monuments. Despite the technical obstacles, the attempt to produce a faithful or composed vision of people, of their singularity, their…

Скачать книгу (размер 463 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 92) Аннотация: This volume is dedicated to the Italian master Andrea del Verrocchio (1435/36-1488) and a few of his most important collaborators. The Louvre Museum collection boasts significant sheets from the Florentine Quattrocento graphic production. The selection presented here deserves attention for its exceptional artistic quality and variety of imagery.

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 112) Аннотация: This monograph on Ingres art includes a broad biographical account of his life and the artistic scene he frequented in Paris and Rome. It places his art within the context of 19th-century art movements, from his youth under the Bonaparte regime to the Third Republic.

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Photography was by no means an easy medium for reproducing the natural world in the nineteenth century, with different exposures needed to render sky, sea, land or foliage. The pioneers mastered the constraints of their medium, and their works transformed the way we see the landscape. This book traces the stages they went through in mastering landscape photography, using images taken between 1840…

Скачать книгу (размер 422 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 84) Аннотация: The Louvre collection of drawings by Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is one of the finest and most well-balanced there is. It provides an overview, from the beginning to the end of his career, through his different techniques and the variety of his themes, of the light-hearted determined and the feigned roguishness of one of the most popular and most misunderstood French artists. Fragonard…

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: The drawn work of Leonardo da Vinci and his pupils is concentrated in a few major collections, the Biblioteca Ambrosiana of Milan, and the Windsor Castle Royal Library being the main ones. The Louvre holdings are modest in number — twenty-two originals — but top-ranking in quality and allow one to follow practically every stage of the painter's career. It was purchased in the nineteenth century…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: The art of southern and eastern Africa, unlike the better-known traditions of central and western Africa, is often overlooked. The complex history of the region, marked by migrations rather than settled kingdoms, and the very nature of the objects produced, seen as craft artefacts by western eyes, are the main reasons for this relative obscurity. The objects illustrated and catalogued in the book…