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Roettgen Steffi: Italian Frescoes: The Early Renaissance 1400-1470

Скачать книгу (размер 2 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 452) Аннотация: This first comprehensive survey in recent times of the surving fresco cycles of the early Renaissance, this path-blazing work is an extraordinary achievement in scholarship and publishing.

Reuel Golden: Photojournalism 1855 to the Present: Editor's Choice

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Ever since Roger Fenton inaugurated the genre by photographing the Crimean War in 1855, the worlds great photojournalists have used a variety of approaches to bear witness to their times. At one end of the photojournalistic spectrum are war photographers like Robert Capa and Larry Burrows, who capture the most extreme events of human existence as they happen; at the other are social…

Segolene Le Men: Courbet

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Rejecting the historical and literary subjects of the prevailing styles as too remote from actual experience, Courbet depicted scenes from everyday life, almost the peasants and the working class, with a naturalism then considered shocking. This monograph provides an understanding of how Courbet`s life and and mileau shaped his vast ouevre.

Francesco Tiradritte: Egyptian Wall Painting

Скачать книгу (размер 1 993 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 392) Аннотация: Ancient Egyptian civilization developed its own highly individual manner of expressing visible and invisible worlds — earth and the domain of the gods — through distinctive «languages». This book presents an art, language, and culture of extraordinary richness.

Nicole Dacos: The Loggia of Raphael

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: This groundbreaking study of Raphael's loggia has four parts. The first and second concern the grotesques and the Bible illustrations, respectively, while the third examines the lives and artistic styles of the members of Raphael's workshop — then the largest operation of its kind — who worked with him on the loggia. The fourth part traces the loggia's enduring influence: the grotesque ornamental…

Yood James: William Morris: Animal/Artifact

Скачать книгу (размер 1 396 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 275) Аннотация: Internationally acclaimed for his compelling work in glass, William Morris approaches the demands of glassblowing and glass sculpting with an experimental eye and an innovative hand. Morris, who lives and works near Seattle, has collaborated with master glass blowers as well as renowned painters and sculptors in making art that is widely admired by artists, sought by collectors, and praised by…

Homer William Innes: Thomas Eakins: His Life and Art

Скачать книгу (размер 1 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 276) Аннотация: The full range of Thomas Eakins's art — lively sporting scenes, psychologically incisive portraits, dramatic historical tableaux, as well as numerous sculptures and innovative photographs — is explored in revealing detail in this critical biography. This edition adds an appendix discussing discoveries about Eakins's use of photography and a bibliographical addendum. Professor Homer explains…

Gabriel Mandel: Japanese Alphabet: The 48 Essential Characters

Скачать книгу (размер 748 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 148) Аннотация: In the fourth century A.D., through contact with Korea, Japan adopted the Chinese writing system which had been sweeping through Asia along with the new Buddhist religion. Modern Japanese writing uses three main scripts: kanji (Chinese ideograms), which are used for proper names, for nouns, and for verb roots; hiragana (deriving from the terms hira, “common”, and kana “borrowed character”), used…

Dr.Steffi Roettgen: Italian Frescoes 5: The Baroque Era

Скачать книгу (размер 2 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 484) Аннотация: Features 25 frescoe cycles including works by Domenichino, Ricci, Guercino and Tiepolo. This work presents such celebrated sights as the Barberini Palace in Rome and the Pitti Palace in Florence, as well as lesser known gems. Each chapter offers a descriptive and interpretive essay on various aspects of the frescoe cycle.

Rick Staudt: How to Photograph Children

Скачать книгу (размер 728 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 144) Аннотация: Few parents can resist the urge to photograph every adorable stage of their children's lives, but most do it more lovingly than well. No matter how doting they are, too often the results are blurry, overexposed, and uninspired snapshots. Guide to Photographing Children offers practical, detailed, unintimidating advice to help transform parents' enthusiasm into memorable photographs that capture…

Larry Silver: Hieronymus Bosch

Скачать книгу (размер 2 156 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 424) Аннотация: Hieronymus Bosch is a stunningly illustrated, groundbreaking exploration of the work of Hieronymus Bosch, the Low Countries great visionary painter. Four hundred little people frolic au naturel with overgrown songbirds and raspberries; a pudgy blue demon serenades a fashionable young couple with a tune piped through his own elongated nose; a knife-wielding set of disembodied ears stalks the…

Omar Calbrese: Artists' Self-Portraits

Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Offers a way to appreciate the history of art and to understand that a self-portrait is more than merely a portrait of the artist. Presenting a definition of the self-portrait genre, this book focuses on the turning point for the establishment of the genre during the Renaissance when the status of the painter was raised from artisan to artist.

Dr.Hans Gert Bachmann: The Lure of Gold

Скачать книгу (размер 1 421 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 280) Аннотация: When Hesiod, the Greek poet of the eighth century B.C., recounted the history of the world as he understood it, he described the legendary first generation of mortal men, who lived in peace and ease, as the «people of gold». Nearly three millennia later, we still refer to a particularly happy or prosperous era as a «golden age». The reason Hesiod’s metaphor translates so perfectly into our own…

Philip F.Palmedo: Joel Perlman: A Sculptor's Journey

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: An elegantly produced volume which illustrates celebrated American metal sculptor Joel Perlman's finest works and relates them to his fascinating life story This handsomely illustrated book is the first monograph devoted to the work of Joel Perlman, an acclaimed sculptor in steel and bronze, whose works are represented in the permanent collections of America's top museums, including the…

Poeschke Joachim: Italian Frescoes: The Age of Giotto 1280-1400

Скачать книгу (размер 2 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 472) Аннотация: The fourth, but the earliest volume chronologically, of the only comprehensive survey in modern times of the surviving Italian frescoes from the end of the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and Mannerism, this groundbreaking oeuvre is an achievement in scholarship and publishing of the same magnitude as Abbeville's Art of Florence and Art and Spirit of Paris . Following the success of the previous…

Christopher Finch: Norman Rockwell: 332 Magazine Covers

Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: This full-sized album of Saturday Evening Post covers captures everyday events and historic moments in American history. Although technically Norman Rockwell was an academic painter, he had the eye of a photographer and, as he became a mature artist, he used this eye to give us a picture of America that was famliar—astonishingly so—and at the same time unique. Rockwell best expressed this vision…

Naomi Rosenblum: A World History of Photography

Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: From the camera lucida to the latest in digital image making and computer manipulation, photographic technology has dramatically changed throughout its nearly 200-year history, as succinctly explained and powerfully illustrated in «A World History of Photography». Thanks to the unique immediacy with which photography captures perspective and history, the popularity and use of the camera spread…

Roger Tory Peterson: Audubon's Birds Of America (Tiny Folio)

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: This sparkling edition of Audubons Birds of America displays all 435 of Audubons hand-colored engravings, graced with an illuminating introduction by Roger Tory Peterson that places Audubon in his ornithological and art historical context. Issued with the full endorsement and cooperation of the Audubon Society, the stunning Baby Elephant Folio — here reproduced in a miniature, gem-like…

Kruta Venceslas: The Art and Spirit of Paris: v: 1, 2

Скачать книгу (размер 7 786 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 1528) Аннотация: All the arts have played a role in creating the enduring spirit of Paris. The Art and Spirit of Paris spans more than 6000 years of cultural history. In two volumes, the authors chronicle the history of the visual arts in Paris, tracing their evolution and the social systems that supported them.