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Albrecht Dürer - Art and Autobiography by David Ekserdjian
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
An exploration of the life and works of German artist Albrecht Dürer and his self-obsession. The Italian Renaissance birthed the modern sense of self, and no artist from the period compares with Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) in terms of the almost obsessive interest he displayed in his own life. Dürer's wo ...Show more
Correggio and Parmigianino: Art in Parma During the Sixteenth Century by David Ekserdjian
Category: Art
For a few decades in the first half of the 16th century, the tremendous quality of the paintings and drawings produced in Parma (and by artists from the city working elsewhere) made the city more than a match for its rivals. The two reasons for this brief golden age were Correggio (1489-1534) and Parmig ...Show more
Raphael by David Ekserdjian; Tom Henry; Thomas P. Campbell (Contribution by); Caroline Elam (Contribution by); Arnold Nesselrath (Contribution by); Matthias Wivel (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
A definitive overview of one of the most celebrated figures of the Italian Renaissance Among the great figures of the Italian Renaissance, Raphael (1483-1520) is unarguably the artist who has been most widely and consistently admired across the centuries. He had an extraordinary and perhaps unrivaled c ...Show more
STILL LIFE BEFORE STILL LIFE by EKSERDJIAN DAVID
Category: Art and Design
A beautiful book that argues artists were fascinated by still life painting considerably earlier than previously thought This eloquent and generously illustrated book asserts that artists were fascinated by and extremely skilled at still life significantly earlier than previously thought. Instead of ...Show more
The Italian Renaissance Altarpiece - Between Icon and Narrative by David Ekserdjian
Category: Art and Design
The altarpiece is one of the most distinctive and remarkable art forms of the Renaissance period. It is difficult to imagine an artist of the time--whether painter or sculptor, major or minor--who did not produce at least one. Though many have been displaced or dismembered, a substantial proportion of t ...Show more
Treasures From Budapest - European Masterpieces from Leonardo to Schiele by David Ekserdjian
Category: Art
Leonardo, Raphael, Cranach, Rubens, Rembrandt, Poussin, D#65533;rer, Monet, Chagall, Picasso, and Schiele--these and other great European artists are represented in this superb book, which showcases one of Europe's finest but lesser-known art collections, that of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. The m ...Show more
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