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Art Galleries of the World by HELEN LANGDON
Category: Art | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An informed and detailed assessment by someone with a deep understanding of art Martin Gayford, The Sunday Telegraph It has sufficient breadth of content and clarity of purpose to have wide appeal among the uninitiated, and yet would not be out of place on the shelves of the most knowledgeable art pundi ...Show more
Caravaggio by Helen Langdon
Category: Art
Of all Italian painters, Caravaggio (C. 1565-1609) speaks most intensely to the modern world. His early works suggest a fascination with his own youth and sexuality and the trancience of love and beauty his later religious art speaks of violence, passion, solitude and death. Ugly, almost brutal-looking, ...Show more
Holbein by Helen Langdon
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543) is renowned for his incisive portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was fat more various, and included book illustration, large religious paintings and designs for jewellery and court fashions. This fine record of his caree ...Show more
Lives of Caravaggio by HELEN LANGDON
Category: Art
In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The impact of his art and personality continue to resonate to this day. Almost everything we know about Caravaggi ...Show more
Salvator Rosa - Paint and Performance by Helen Langdon
Category: Art and Design | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A compelling biography of the Renaissance painter, known equally for his magnetic personality and unusual subject matter: witchcraft and the sublime. Painter, poet, and actor Salvator Rosa was one of the most engaging and charismatic personalities of seventeenth-century Italy. Although a gifted land ...Show more
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