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Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899) Bonheur was the oldest of four artistic children born to the French landscape painter Raymond Bonheur.Rosa began sketching and sculpting animals at an early age and used her interest in animals to help her learn to read and write. She would...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) punctuates the eighteenth century with a burst of fireworks, closing the arc opened by Watteau with his enchanting poems of love and melancholy. While Watteau was ethereal and profound, Fragonard was delightfully light. He captivates us...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) verkörpert die ganze Anmut, die ganze Intelligenz und die ganze Poesie des achtzehnten Jahrhunderts, einer Zeit, in der der französische Geschmack in ganz Europa triumphierte. Er gilt nicht nur als eine der Schlüsselfiguren des Rokoko,...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
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Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) epitomises the grace, intelligence, and poetry of the eighteenth century, a period when French tastes reigned supreme throughout Europe. He is renowned as a pivotal figure in Rococo art. Watteau excels in depicting scenes of daily life and...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
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The biblical book of Daniel was known to Jewish and Christian antiquity in its longer versions, preserved for us in the Greek textual tradition. Those Additions, as they came to be called (the tale of Susanna and the legends of Bel and the Dragon, the Prayer of Azariah...
Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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The legendary medieval tapestryThe Lady and the Unicorn is Sutherland Lyall’s starting point for this journey into the world of mythology and mystery which has been woven around the myth of the unicorn and the lady. We learn that the unicorn is the symbol for power and...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Seit über hundertfünfzig Jahren ist die Bauchbinde die Zierde der Zigarre. Bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg wurde sie in mehrfarbigem Steindruckverfahren hergestellt. Die Modelle, die zu dieser Zeit gedruckt wurden, sind wahrhaftige Kunstobjekte. Sie bestechen beispielsweise...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
Format(s) : ePub
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Documents discovered recently in the hidden backrooms of St Petersburg’s Ethnological Museum have proved to be of sensational importance. The contents are published for the very first time in this work. Representing photos and descriptions of art and sculpture, of...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
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Die in den geheimen Archiven des Museums für Völkerkunde in Sankt Petersburg entdeckten Dokumente, die hier erstmalig veröffentlicht werden, sind ein einzigartiges Zeugnis der bisher wenig beachteten Kultur der Völker des hohen Nordens. Gegenstände der Kunst und Bilder...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2024-01-17
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Revised and updated sixth edition of the best-selling guide to branding fundamentals, strategy, and process. It’s harder than ever to be the brand of choice—in many markets, technology has lowered barriers to entry, increasing competition. Everything is digital and the...
Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2024-01-09
Format(s) : PDF
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This interdisciplinary book investigates the various ways in which North American and European modern and contemporary artists, authors, and musicians have returned to earlier works of their own, engaging in inventive revivals and transformations of the past in the...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2024-01-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Poet, draughtsman, engraver and painter, William Blake’s work is made up of several elements – Gothic art, Germanic reverie, the Bible, Milton and Shakespeare – to which were added Dante and a certain taste for linear designs, resembling geometric diagrams, and relates...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
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From the Middle Ages to contemporary times, decorative art can be defined by the artistic materials, designs and objects used in both architecture and interior design. Similar to many art forms decorative art continues to evolve, originating with pieces as simple as a...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral? Or why your offi ce building looks so different from its neighboring counterparts? The ABC of Style invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Canaletto began his career as a theatrical scene painter, like his father, in the Baroque tradition. Influenced by Giovanni Panini, he is specialised in vedute (views) of Venice, his birth place. Strong contrast between light and shadow is typical of this artist....
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a painter and a great art theorist, but first and foremost he was the founder of Suprematism, a style seeking pure abstraction based on geometrical forms. “Suprematism,” he wrote, “has led me to discover something that had not been...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
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Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the teachings of...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
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Mantegna; humanist, geometrist, archaeologist, of great scholastic and imaginative intelligence, dominated the whole of northern Italy by virtue of his imperious personality. Aiming at optical illusion, he mastered perspective. He trained in painting at the Padua School...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
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Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings. Little is known of his early life except that he was born at Vicchio, in the broad fertile valley of the Mugello, not far...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a painter later, he painted religious themes, such as Babel Tower, with very bright colours. Influenced by Hieronymus Bosch, he...
Editeur : Parkstone International
Parution : 2023-12-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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