Vincent van Gogh (Groot-Zundert, Brabant, 1853 – Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890)La vie et l'oeuvre de Vincent van Gogh sont si étroitement liées qu'il est quasiment impossible de voir ses toiles sans y lire le récit de sa vie : van Gogh est en effet devenu l'incarnation du martyr souffrant et incompris de l'art moderne, l'emblème de l'artiste marginal.
Discover this remarkable account of twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons from the New York Times bestselling author of Behave.
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant.
Luis de Morales, known as El Divino because of his intensely religious subject matter, is the most significant and recognisable Spanish painter of the mid-sixteenth century, the high point of the Spanish and Portuguese counter-reformations.
Raffael (1483-1520), ein Zeitgenosse Leonardo da Vincis und Michelangelos und gleichzeitig der jüngste dieser drei „Titanen“ der Hochrenaissance, war über lange Zeit der Inbegriff des dynamischen, jungen Malergenies – eine Sichtweise, die durch seinen frühen Tod mit 37 Jahren noch verstärkt wurde.
Hieronymus Bosch (S’Hertogenbosch, 1450 – 1516)Né au milieu du XVe siècle, Jérôme Bosch fait l'expérience d'un monde pris dans les luttes religieuses, où les valeurs médiévalestraditionnelles commencent à s'effondrer.
Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017John Craske, a Norfok fisherman, was born in 1881 and in 1917, when he had just turned thirty-six, he fell seriously ill.
Far more than a fine horse portraitist, George Stubbs was a painter and a printmaker of the highest importance, on a par with his great contemporaries, Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of America’s most famous and enigmatic postwar visual artists Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903.
The legendary Samurai, and the sharp-edged katanas they mastered, are the point of this thrill-seeking guide to drawing swordfights, battle scenes and skirmishes.
A pioneer among Palestinian artists, Sophie Halaby was the first Arab woman to study art in Paris, subsequently living independently as a professional painter in Jerusalem throughout her life.
Follow Aleister Crowley through his mystical travels in India, which profoundly influenced his magical system as well as the larger occult world *; Shares excerpts from Crowley's unpublished diaries and details his travels in India, Burma, and Sri Lanka from 1901 to 1906 *; Reveals how Crowley incorporated what he learned in India--jnana yoga, Vedantist, Tantric, and Buddhist philosophy--into his own school of Magick *; Explores the world of Theosophy, yogis, Hindu traditions, and the first Buddhist sangha to the West as well as the first pioneering expeditions to K2 and Kangchenjunga in 1901 and 1905 Early in life, Aleister Crowley's dissociation from fundamentalist Christianity led him toward esoteric and magical spirituality.
Progress in Ape Research presents the papers reported in the conference organized by the staff of Yerkes Primate Research Center in celebrating the centenary of Dr.
Im Gegensatz zu seinem Vorgänger van Eyck war Memling, der lange Zeit als ein weniger bedeutender Maler galt, kein Hofmaler, sondern ein Maler des Bürgertums.
Seit Mitte der 1960er Jahre prägte Peter Brötzmann die internationale Szene des Free Jazz und der Improvisierten Musik maßgeblich; parallel zu seinem musikalischen Schaffen war er als bildender Künstler tätig.
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Pionier und Anführer der abstrakten Kunstbewegung, wurde durch seine geradlinigen,asymmetrischen Linien und reinen Farben berühmt.
The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr (1857-1918), was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s.
Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610)Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592.
Chaim Soutine (1893-1943), the unconventional and controversial painter of Belorussian origin, combines influences of classic European painting with Post-Impressionism and Expressionism.
Une icône dans le mouvement Art Nouveau, Émile Gallé (1846-1904) a cherché à montrer la beauté et la simplicité de la nature dans ses oeuvres en verre.
Showcasing a wealth of arresting color combinations, weaves, and patterns in more than 200 gorgeous examples, The Printed Square by Nicky Albrechtsen reveals the hidden history of the fashionable handkerchief.
