Lund Humphries, 2010. — 164 p. This book remains the definitive survey of the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011). Carrington burst onto the Surrealist scene in 1936, when, as a precocious nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was...
C.H.Beck, 2006. — 132 S. Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) gehört zu den wichtigsten Wegbereitern der Moderne. Götz Adriani beschreibt den Lebensweg und die künstlerische Entwicklung dieses bedeutenden Malers. Dabei verschafft er dem Leser einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Arbeitsweise des Künstlers, dessen Bilder zu den beliebtesten Werken der Kunstgeschichte zählen.
Historia16, 1993. — 143 p. — (El Arte Y Sus Creadores 11). Tintoretto, cuyo nombre era Jacopo Comin (Venecia, 29 de septiembre de 1518-31 de mayo de 1594), fue uno de los grandes pintores de la escuela veneciana y representante del estilo manierista. En su juventud también recibió el apodo de Jacopo Robusti, pues su padre defendió las puertas de Padua frente a las tropas...
Historia16, 1993. — 137 p. — (El Arte Y Sus Creadores 3). Tommaso di ser Giovanni di Mone Cassai (San Giovanni in Altura, hoy San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo; 21 de diciembre de 1401 – Roma; otoño de 1428), más conocido como Masaccio, fue un pintor cuatrocentista italiano. A pesar de la brevedad de su vida, su obra tuvo una importancia decisiva en la historia de la pintura....
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. — 120 p. The Belgian Surrealist Rene Magritte is a master of optical illusion. His influence on pop culture is felt everywhere—from advertising and corporate logos, to consumer products and design. Magritte s paintings are witty and easy to enter, but their eerie calm can be unnerving and leave us with a feeling of Let's get out of here! We end up...
Hazan, 2013. — 420 p. Nous est offert, pour la première fois en France, un panorama de la création artistique allemande sur une durée relativement longue — plus d’un siècle. Les courants artistiques, du classicisme weimarien, des Nazaréens à Otto Dix, en passant par Hans von Marées, Adolf von Hildebrand ou Franz von Stuck, mais aussi du romantisme d’un Caspar David Friedrich à...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. — 332 p. Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the towering figures to emerge in France in the wake of Napoleon. No other artist of the nineteenth century balanced a reverence for the past with such a strong ambition and spirit of innovation. Distinguishing himself from many other talented young artists in Paris, he gained renown in the...
Unidad Editorial, 2005. — 180 p. — (Los Grandes Genios del Arte 14). Piero della Francesca (h. 1420-1492). Artículo de presentación a cargo de Víctor Nieto Alcalde, Luz y geometría.Estudio sobre la vida y la obra del pintor, análisis de sus obras, por Pietro Allegretti. Biografía, bibliografía y breves comentarios críticos.
Yale University Press, 1996. — 198 p. Tiepolo is a brilliant example of the specifically pictorial intelligence. This book is both a study of his art and an argument for fuller recognition of the peculiarities of the painter's representational medium. Alpers and Baxandall locate distinctive modes of Tiepolo's representation of the world and human action; follow his process of...
Ilisso, 1998. — 351 p. L'opera e la personalità del pittore Giuseppe Biasi occupano un posto di rilievo nell'ambito dell'arte sarda del Novecento. Artefice dell'abbandono dell'espressione accademica in favore della modernità allora rappresentata dal linguaggio delle Secessioni, Biasi ha il merito d'aver reso possibile l'inserimento della Sardegna nel quadro artistico europeo....
Ilisso, 2002. — 239 p. Il volume costituisce l'opera definitiva su uno degli artisti più amati e conosciuti in Sardegna. La monografia traccia un ritratto completo di Dessy avvalendosi di lavori inediti, soprattutto del periodo di formazione tra gli anni Venti e Trenta e di scoperte emerse da ricerche d'archivio. Vengono affrontati i temi cari all'artista: il mondo contadino,...
Jaca Book, 2006. — 312 p. Il volto pittorico della Roma tardo antica e medievale, raramente è giunto a noi intatto; più spesso si mostra frammentato o nascosto o perduto. E tuttavia di questo patrimonio, moltissime sono ancora le tracce visibili sulle pareti di chiese e monumenti della città o i brani di dipinti e mosaici staccati che si conservano nei musei e nei loro...
Jaca Book, 2006. — 469 p. — (La pittura medievale a Roma: Corpus I). Questo libro è dedicato alla pittura a Roma nel IV e V secolo, in un periodo che prende avvio alla fine del mondo antico e si sviluppa con il progressivo affermarsi del Cristianesimo. Nel volume la pittura è analizzata da tre punti di osservazione diversi: la pittura monumentale, che vede l'avvento dei grandi...
Ludwig Kichler Verlag, 1942. — 161 S. Straßburg Unter-Elsaß Mittleres Elsaß Das Elsaß der "Drei Stadt' in einem Tal" Das südliche Elsaß mit dem Sundgau
Hazan, 1999. — 345 p. Le thème de l’ «Annonciation » représente un défi pour un peintre. Comment représenter en effet l’irreprésentable, l’invisible - le mystère de l’incarnation: cette venue du Créateur dans la créature ? C’est sur cette question abordée par les artistes italiens entre le XIVè et le XVIè siècles que Daniel Arasse se penche en renouvelant notre perception de...
Unidad Editorial, 2005. — 180 p. — (Los Grandes Genios del Arte 27). Jan van Eyck es considerado como uno de los "meteoros" de la historia del arte, es decir, una de esas raras figuras que con su aparición cambiaron el curso de la historia de la pintura, inventando un modo completamente nuevo de representar la realidad. Semejantes conceptos se arriesgan a crear confusión,...
Taschen, 1987. — 98 S. Bekannt für seine Plakate für Kabaretts und Aufführungen, war Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) der Maler des Pariser Nachtlebens par excellence. Völlig in das böhmische Milieu dieser Zeit eingetaucht, schuf er zahlreiche Gemälde und Lithographien, die die unteren Schichten der Gesellschaft repräsentierten. Mehr als jeder andere Maler seiner Zeit ist...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. — 367 p. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commitment to American art goes back to its origins, when one of the main reasons for creating the Museum was to provide the city and the nation with an institution that would attract and instruct American artists, as well as acquire their works. Leaders in the New York art world of the 1860s and 1870s...
Taschen, 2015. — 96 p. Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903–1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract Expressionist movement, first formed in New York City, Rothko rejected the label and insisted instead on “a consummated experience between picture and...
Parkstone Press International, 2014. — 256 p. Ornans, Courbet’s birthplace, is near the beautiful valley of the Doubs River, and it was here as a boy, and later as a man, that he absorbed the love of landscape. He was by nature a revolutionary, a man born to oppose existing order and to assert his independence; he had that quality of bluster and brutality which makes the...
Parkstone Press International, 2011. — 82 p. Edvard Munch, born in 1863, was Norway's most popular artist. His brooding and anguished paintings, based on personal grief and obsessions, were instrumental in the development of Expressionism. During his childhood, the death of his parents, his brother and sister, and the mental illness of another sister, were of great influence on...
Parkstone Press International, 2011. — 81 p. Edward Coley Burne-Jones (Birmingham, 1833 - Londres, 1898) Toute l'oeuvre de Burne-Jones peut etre comprise comme une tentative de creer par la peinture un monde de beaute parfaite, aussi different du Birmingham de son enfance que possible, un conglomerat industriel, mugissant, d'une laideur et d'une misere inimaginables. Les deux...
Mayflower Books, 1979. — 89 p. In the striking works of pre-Raphaelite, Symbolist and Art Nouveau artists and in their literary parallels, Patrick Bade uncovers an extraordinary, disturbing world of sexual fantasy and a remarkably pervasive image of woman as destroyer, enchantress, priestess, siren, sphinx and angel of death, the femme fatale becambe the sinister new heroine of...
Parkstone Press International, 2015. — 256 p. Les portraits, nus et natures mortes lisses et métalliques de Tamara de Lempicka résument l'esprit de l'Art déco et de l'âge du jazz et reflètent le style de vie élégant et hédoniste d'une élite riche, glamour et privilégiée à Paris entre les deux guerres mondiales. Combinant une formidable technique classique avec des éléments...
Silvana, 2017. — 512 p. Ambrogio Lorenzetti (Siena, notizie dal 1319 al 1348) fu uno degli artisti più importanti nell’intera Europa tardo-medievale e grazie ai Commentarii di Lorenzo Ghiberti divenne presto famoso presso gli scrittori d’arte. È universalmente celebre in virtù degli affreschi nel Palazzo Pubblico di Siena, con le allegorie e gli effetti del Buono e del Cattivo...
Silvana, 2003. — 502 p. Il volume è il catalogo della mostra di Siena (Santa Maria della Scala, 4 ottobre 2003 - 11 gennaio 2004). Nell'opera si approfondisce l'attività di numerosi allievi e seguaci che, per tre generazioni, seguirono gli insegnamenti del maestro. Fulcro dello studio è il restauro, tuttora in corso, della vetrata dell'abside del Duomo di Siena. Nei numerosi...
Silvana, 2003. — 502 p. Il volume è il catalogo della mostra di Siena (Santa Maria della Scala, 4 ottobre 2003 - 11 gennaio 2004). Nell'opera si approfondisce l'attività di numerosi allievi e seguaci che, per tre generazioni, seguirono gli insegnamenti del maestro. Fulcro dello studio è il restauro, tuttora in corso, della vetrata dell'abside del Duomo di Siena. Nei numerosi...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 303 p. Largely neglected for the four centuries after his death, the fifteenth century Italian artist Piero della Francesca is now seen to embody the fullest expression of the Renaissance perspective painter, raising him to an artistic stature comparable with that of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. But who was Piero, and how did he become...
Skira, 2002. — 115 p. La decorazione pittorica della navata della Cappella Scrovegni costituisce senza dubbio una delle realizzazioni artistiche più importanti del mondo occidentale. La superficie dipinta è di circa 900 mq, ed occupa la volta, le due pareti laterali, l’arco trionfale e la controfacciata. Vi sono rappresentati più di 100 soggetti, tra cui molti busti di profeti...
Electa, 1997. — 131 p. Il ciclo pittorico francescano nella Basilica Superiore si trova in una situazione di visibilità privilegiata: è collocato infatti nella fascia più bassa della parete, immediatamente sopra lo zoccolo; la parete è avanzata rispetto alla parte superiore ed è pienamente investita dalla luce proveniente dalle vetrate e dal rosone della facciata. Trattandosi...
Reaktion books, 2008. — 258 p. Hailed as the “savior” of Venetian painting by Jacob Burckhardt and declared by Albrecht Dürer to be the foremost painter of the city, Giovanni Bellini is a pivotal figure in the development of Italian Renaissance art. With Giovanni Bellini, renowned art historian Oskar Bätschmann charts the fraught trajectory of Bellini’s career, highlighting the...
C.H.Beck, 2010. — 131 S. Hans Holbein d. J. (1497/98-1543) war einer der bedeutendsten Renaissancekünstler im deutschsprachigen Raum. Lange Jahre in Basel tätig, führte ihn seine künstlerische Laufbahn nach Italien, nach Frankreich und schliesslich nach England, wo er zum Hofmaler Heinrichs VIII. aufstieg. Berühmt wurde er durch seine Altarbilder, Buchillustrationen und...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. — 273 p. Largely as a result of Leonardo's innovative work for the Sforza court in Milan, a rich vein of naturalism developed in North Italian art during the late fifteenth century. Questioning the strongly classicizing idealized style dominant in areas south of the Apennines, artists in the region of Lombardy turned to an investigation of...
Parkstone Press International, 2007. — 256 p. Guido di Petro was born in 1387 in Tuscany, near Fiesole. While still very young, he joined the Observant Dominican order, making the vow of absolute poverty and obedience. His talent soon proved useful as he began to paint miniatures for missals and other religious books.In 1436, along with several other friars, he moved to the...
University of California Press, 2003. — 376 p. Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives, introduces many unfamiliar...
Taschen, 1993. — 100 S. Die Kunst Albrecht Dürers markiert den Höhepunkt der Malerei am Ausgang des Mittelalters. Die Meisterschaft von akkurater Zeichnung und sinnenfroher Farbgebung fasziniert bis heute.
L'Unità, 1992. — 66 p. Rivolto a un pubblico attento ma non specialistico, il volume presenta una sintesi monografica sulla vita e sulle principali opere, splendidamente illustrate e con ampie didascalie descrittive, di Gauguin. “Il simbolo si crea per mezzo di armonie sapienti. Il colore, come la musica, coglie nelle sue vibrazioni quanto di più universale, dunque indefinito,...
Marsilio Editori, 1990. — 468 p. Accompanied exhibit at National Gallery of Art and Palazzo Ducale in Venice. With an annotated catalogue, a section on Titian's technique, and a comparative chronology. A collection of scholarly essays on Titian's life and work, including the politics of the time, and his relation with Bellini and Giorgione, with beautiful colour reproductions...
Doubleday & Company, 1968. — 276 p. This book brings, in a fresh and creative new way, an understanding of the dazzling body of work of Marc Chagall, "the poetic maverick among the major artists of the twentieth century." The collabative efforts of Chagall, Izis, and McMullen have been brought to bear in accomplishing this, Chagall has made available many paintings, sketches,...
Georg Westermann Verlag, 1976. — 404 S. Seit Urzeiten begleitet die Kunst den Menschen. Unstillbar scheint seine Sehnsucht, die Ergebnisse künstlerischer Schaffenskraft bewundernd zu betrachten, und so besucht er Kirchen, Museen und Galerien. Seit moderne Drucktechniken die Herstellung vorzüglicher Reproduktionen in hohen Auflagen ermöglichen, macht darüber hinaus der Bildband...
Georg Westermann Verlag, 1976. — 404 S. Seit Urzeiten begleitet die Kunst den Menschen. Unstillbar scheint seine Sehnsucht, die Ergebnisse künstlerischer Schaffenskraft bewundernd zu betrachten, und so besucht er Kirchen, Museen und Galerien. Seit moderne Drucktechniken die Herstellung vorzüglicher Reproduktionen in hohen Auflagen ermöglichen, macht darüber hinaus der Bildband...
Thames & Hudson, 2022. — 240 p. — (World of Art). A new, updated edition of this illuminating study on William Hogarth, one of the eighteenth century’s most famous artists and satirists. William Hogarth (1697–1764) was one of the great eighteenth-century painters, a marvelous colorist, and an innovator at all levels of artistic expression. In this updated volume, art historian...
Taschen, 1987. — 98 S. Max Ernst (1891-1976) war wahrscheinlich der komplexeste Maler, der mit der Dada- und der surrealistischen Bewegung in Verbindung gebracht wurde. Seine frühzeitige Ablehnung der „reinen Malerei“ führte ihn dazu, Formen des künstlerischen Schaffens „jenseits der Malerei“ (wie er es ausdrückte) zu entwickeln, die maßgeblich zur Definition des Umfangs der...
Flammarion, 2001. — 273 p. Fiercely competitive, Matisse and Picasso engaged in one of the most formidable artistic dialogues of this century. The intense beginning of the relationship between the two artists - from the time they met in 1906 until 1917, when Matisse left for Nice - has already been amply studied, but their continuous exchange during the second part of their...
Skira/Rizzoli, 1985. — 168 p. The history of the painter, the history of painting itself, is summed up in the history of the selfportrait. From century to century, the artists who have painted their own portraits have repressed nothing. A self-portrait is a self-confession: the artist's life, social background, credo, ambition, secrets and antecedents can all be present in it....
C.H. Beck, 1988. — 620 S. Dieses Buch ist die Arbeit eines Museumsbeamten, dessen wichtigste Aufgabe es bleibt, zum intensiven, verständigen und vielfältigen Gebrauch der Augen zu ermuntern, vom liebenden Bewundern bis zum kritischen Durchschauen, denn Kulturbesitz, der allein in den Dingen liegt und nicht in menschliches Vermögen umgesetzt wird, hat nur eingeschränkten Wert....
Phaidon Press, 1971. — 72 p. Paul Gauguin (1848- 1903) began his career as a stockbroker. It was not until 1883 that he finally gave up his job to devote himself to art. The rest of his life, with its constant search for a 'lost paradise' untouched by nineteenthcentury civilization - a search that took him first to Brittany and then to the South Seas, where he died wracked with...
Historia16, 1993. — 136 p. — (El Arte Y Sus Creadores 4). Piero di Benedetto de' Franceschi, conocido como Piero della Francesca (Borgo del Santo Sepolcro, en el valle alto del Tíber, h. 1415–Borgo del Santo Sepolcro, 12 de octubre de 1492) fue un pintor italiano del Quattrocento (siglo XV). Actualmente se le aprecia sobre todo como pintor especialista en frescos, pero en su...
Harry N. Abrams, 1999. — 116 p. The French artists Claude Monet and Frederic Bazille worked together for seven years - until the latter was killed in the Franco-Prussian War - to develop the style of painting which became known as Impressionism. This is a study of that fruitful collaboration and the works that resulted from it. Published to accompany a 1999 exhibition at the...