A richly rewarding narrative about a young painter's love affair with the Greek island of SifnosWhen Christian Brechneff first set foot on the Greek island of Sifnos, it was the spring of 1972 and he was a twenty-one-year-old painter searching for artistic inspiration and a quiet place to work.
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, this is the biography of celebrated nineteenth-century artist Edward Burne-Jones, who - with William Morris - connects Victorian and modern art.
Get Lost in the Splendor of the Land and SkiesDiscover the joys of creating dazzling watercolor landscapes and scenic skies with this beginner's guide, from painter and nature-lover Rachael Mae Moyles.
Die aus Elbigenalp im Tiroler Lechtal stammende Malerin Anna Stainer-Knittel (1841-1915) besuchte als eine der ersten Studentinnen die Kunstakademie in München.
The first biography of Venice's greatest artist since 1877 - a towering work which captures the genius of Titian - and the extraordinary times in which he lived - the apogee of Venice's power and influence.
This book examines the terms upon which painting in the United States sought to negotiate with the legacy of American formalist aesthetics and by extension, the understanding of modernist painting it had become most readily associated with.
Este Manual completo de materiales y técnicas constituye una guía definitiva para conocer el amplio y variado surtido de herramientas existentes en el ámbito del dibujo y la pintura, así como sus diversas aplicaciones.
Although considered a minor genre for a long time, the art of landscape has risen above its forebears - religious and historic painting - to become a genre of its own.
This book is the first study of the mentality of anti-Communist underground fighters and presents, especially, their thinking, ideals, stereotypes and customs.
This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of 'sacred portrait' also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial portraiture, Graeco-Egyptian funerary portraiture and panel paintings depicting non-Christian deities.
In his third book, Strauss delves into the mysterious process whereby an idea is born in the mind and materialized through the hand in the expression of an artwork.
Capture the Beauty of Light in Gorgeous Watercolor ScenesFrom a lonely mountain highway bathed in midday sun and glittering city lights reflecting off a calm ocean, to a haunted house peeking out of early morning mist and a winter sunset illuminating a snowy forest, this brilliant collection of watercolor masterpieces is an essential primer on representing light in all its varied forms.
The Western discovery of Japanese paintings at nineteenth-century world's fairs and export shops catapulted Japanese art to new levels of international popularity.
Das Erscheinungsbild einer Stadt ist geprägt von den Gebäuden und anderen Spuren, die die jeweilige herrschende Elite im Laufe der Jahrhunderte hinterlassen hat.
