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1000 Drawings of Genius by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: The Book
Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, the art of drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place in the sun. With major museums around the world, from the Met to the Uffizi, mounting exhibitions focused on the art of draughtsmanship, drawing is receiving more critical and academic attentio ...Show more
Dali by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design
The Mega Square Dal offers a brand new perspective on the self-proclaimed geniuss work thanks to the close-ups on specific details. Victoria Charles, Parkstones most prolific author, once more delivers a great text about this Surrealist painter. The Mega Square's small and practical format is bound to m ...Show more
Dali by Eric Shanes (Illustrator); Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: Temporis Ser.
As a one of the foremost painters of the 20th century, Dal#65533;, like Picasso and Warhol, can boast of having overturned the art of the previous century and directed contemporary art toward its present incarnation. As irrational as he was surrealist, this genius diverted objects from their orig ...Show more
Gothic Art by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design
Gothic art finds its roots in the powerful architecture of the cathedrals of northern France. It is a medieval art movement that developed all across Europe for more than 200 years. Leaving Roman roundish forms behind, the architects started using flying buttress and pointed arches to open cathedrals to ...Show more
Leonardo Da Vinci by Gabriel Séailles; Klaus H. Carl; Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art Gallery Ser.
Not only was Leonardo da Vinci (1453-1519) an astonishing painter, but also a scientist, anatomist, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, inventor, and more. The question is rather, what was he not? During the Italian Renaissance, he mastered the most beautiful works of art for the Medicis in Italy a ...Show more
Medieval Art in Europe: Romanesque Art - Gothic Art 987-1489: Volume 1: Romanesque Art: Volume 2: Gothic Art by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: The Must
This beautifully packaged, two-volume slipcased edition covers Romanesque art--the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century.
Mega Square Seurat by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: Mega Square Ser.
Universally celebrated for the intricacy of his pointillist canvases, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was a painter whose stunning union of art and science produced uniquely compelling results. Seurat's intricate paintings could take years to complete, with the magnificent results impressing the viewer wi ...Show more
Picasso by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: Mega Square
Pablo Picasso is the quintessential modern artist, a man who embodied the avant-garde s search for radical rupture like no other, producing an everchanging oeuvre that for many has become the key to understanding the art of the 20th century. Works have been selected from Picasso s vast production for th ...Show more
Renaissance Art by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art of Century
The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and by the second half of the 16th century has extended across the whole of Europe. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude ...Show more
Rococo by Victoria Charles
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art of Century Collection
Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, Rococo is also referred to as late Baroque style. At the end of the century, facing the advent of Neoclassicism, this art form was plunged into obscurity. Charles and Carl rediscover Rococo's radiance in this collection.
Romanesque Art by Charles Victoria & Carl Klaus H.
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art of Century Ser.
The term of Roman art distinguishes, in art history, the period between the 11th and the 13th century. This era shows a great diversity of regional schools which were all specific in their own way. In architecture as well as in sculpture, the Roman art is marked by raw forms. By its rich iconography and ...Show more
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