Lives of Artemisia Gentileschi by Herself and Others by ARTEMISIA GENTILESCH
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Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was a highly accomplished Italian Baroque painter, known for her skill in colouring and her ability to convincingly depict the female figure. In an era when female painters were not easily accepted by the artistic community, she was the first woman to become a member of ...Show more
Lives of Caravaggio by GIULIO MANCINI
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Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art. In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The ...Show more
Lives of Giovanni Bellini by GIORGIO VASARI
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Category: Art
Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguably the greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. His astonishing naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting and is still a source of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice will confirm. Most of what we know about this great artist com ...Show more
Lives of Rembrandt by JOACHIM VON SANDRART
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Category: Art | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never before available complete in English, the three major contemporary sources for the life of Rembrandt. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the seventeenth century and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emot ...Show more
Lives of Titian by GIORGIO VASARI
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Category: Art
Titian (c. 1488-1576) was recognised very early on as the leading painter of his generation in Venice. Starting in the studio of the aged Giovanni Bellini, Titian, with his contemporary Giorgione, almost immediately started to expand the range of what was possible in painting, converting Bellini's statu ...Show more
Lives of Velazquez by FRANCISCO PACHECO
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Category: Art
Collected for the first time in a new translation: two of the most important and far-reaching biographies of an artist ever written, and our principal sources for the life of Velázquez. Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) is for many the greatest painter ever to have lived. His astonishing naturalism had an imm ...Show more
Looking at Manet by EMILE ZOLA
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Category: Art
Manet's career was surrounded by controversy almost from the very start. The hard-edged technique of his early works was not what Salon audiences expected, and when he started painting subjects as uncompromising as the unclothed picknicker in the Dejeuner sur l'herbe or the aggressively naked young cour ...Show more
Manga Academy - Learn to Draw Japanese-Style Illustration by Chihiro Howe
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Category: Art Techniques
Make your dream of drawing Japanese-style manga a reality with Manga Academy This book, loaded with Chihiro Howe's delightfully simple techniques, teaches all you need to know to get started creating your own manga. Learn tips for selecting the best materials and tools, how to design manga characters, c ...Show more
Meet the Artists by JULIE EWINGTON
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Category: Art
Intimate conversations and premiere contemporary artworks are presented in this elegant publication featuring acclaimed Australian artists and artworkers from the James C. Sourris Collection of Artist Interviews. Curated and written by leading Australasian art authority Julie Ewington, in-depth insights ...Show more
Memoir of Vincent van Gogh by JO VAN GOGH-BONGER
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Category: Art
What am I in the eyes of most people - a non-entity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccen ...Show more
Never Too Small: Vol. 2: Reinventing small space living by Camilla Janse van Vuuren, Joel Beath
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Category: Home Design
Small footprint design that proves living better doesn't have to mean living larger. Following the success of their first book, the second volume of Never Too Small showcases 30 new and outstanding homes from around the world that explore small space living. Framed by five small-footprint design princ ...Show more
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings by Matt Lodder
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Category: Art
In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tattoos ye ...Show more