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Angels by Gilles Neret
Category: Art | Series: Icons Ser.
LOOKING LOVELY AND PURE, PEEKING OUT FROM BEHIND THE CLOUDS AND FOREVER DOING GOOD DEEDS, ANGELS HAVE FOREVER BEEN A FAVORITE SUBJECT OF ARTISTS. THIS SELECTION OF SCULPTURES, CERAMICS, FRESCOES, PAINTINGS, DRAWINGS, AND ILLUSTRATIONS, BY THE GREATEST MASTERS FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE, EXPL ...Show more
Caravaggio by Gilles Neret
Category: Art
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work had been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacr ...Show more
Caravaggio by Gilles Neret
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashionable in his time, but his sacr ...Show more
Caravaggio 1571-1610 by Gilles Lambert; Gilles Neret
Category: Art Instructional | Series: Basic Art
A genius beyond his time Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recognition he deserves. Though his name may be familiar to all of us, his work has been habitually detested and forced into obscurity. Not only was his theatrical realism unfashio ...Show more
De Lempicka by Gilles Neret
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title deals with Tamara de Lempicka's beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern metropolis. Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and 30s. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles, and the modern metropolis provided n ...Show more
Erotica Universalis by Gilles Neret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Bibliotheca Universalis Ser.
This is an erotic history of humanity. From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age - whether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas or Picasso - have succumbed to their fantasies, obsessions and libido, an ...Show more
Erotica Universalis by Gilles Neret
Category: Erotica
Wonderfully indecent pictures from famous scribblers and anonymous talents alike (TASCHEN's 25th anniversary special edition) From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every agewhether the Egyptian, Greek and Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names as Rembrandt, C ...Show more
Klimt by Gilles Neret
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Album S.
Klimt is my favorite artist and yet it is so difficult to find quality reproductions of his works; usually the color is faded or the gold leaf comes out a sickly yellow!! This book has beautiful reproductions and concise and informative explanations next to each painting as well as an interesting biogra ...Show more
Lempicka by Gilles Neret
Category: Infant | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Tamara de Lempicka and the changing aspects of femininity and masculinity. As the "Goddess of the Automobile Age", Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the centre of the sophisticated Paris art world of the Twenties and Thirties. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles and the modern met ...Show more
Malevich by Gilles Neret
Category: unmapped
Dabbling in fauvism and cubism before founding the Suprematist movement, Russian painter and sculptor Kasimir Malevich (1878-1935) was a leading figure of the avant-garde and a pioneer of the non-objective style
Matisse - Cut Outs by Gilles Ed Neret
Category: Art and Design
Drawing with scissors A compendium of his revolutionary late-period work The reputation of Henri Matisse (1869 1954) as the most important artist of the modern era is rivaled only by Picasso who himself said, All things considered, there is only Matisse. Towards the end of his monumental career as a pai ...Show more