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Albrecht Durer 1471-1528 - The genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art
Germany's greatest Renaissance artist Though he is most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Durer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the moveme ...Show more
Albrecht Dürer 1471-1528 : The Genius of the German Renaissance by Norbert Wolf
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2.0
Germany's greatest Renaissance artist Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht D rer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. D rer's importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement ent ...Show more
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Series 2
Francis Bacon (1909-1992) possessed the rare ability to transform unconscious compulsions into figurative, human-like forms that seem to evoke the raw emotions that bore them. Mixing realism and abstraction, Bacon delves deep beneath the surfaces of things, opening up the human body to reveal the chaos ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
Category: Art | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
This title is about one of the most admired artists to emerge from the 1980s art boom. From the streets of New York to the walls of its most prominent galleries, young graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) was catapulted to international fame in his early 20s and died of a drug-overdose at 27 ...Show more
Basquiat by Leonhard Emmerling
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
Life lines: The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO," before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. Although his career lasted ba ...Show more
Bosch by Walter Bosing
Category: Art and Design | Series: Taschen Basic Art Series
The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch: The joys of heaven and the cruelly imaginative tortures of hell. Even his contemporaries found the work of the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) difficult to 'decode'- and it still presents riddles to art historians today. Although rooted in the Old Dutc ...Show more
Bosch by Walter Bosing
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
The pictorial world of Hieronymus Bosch If Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516) remains an enigma today, it is little wonder. Even his contemporaries found the Netherlandish painter's work difficult to decipher--and it still presents riddles to contemporary art historians. Part of the problem in decoding his s ...Show more
Botticelli: Basic Art Album by Barbara Deimling
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art Ser.
Florence's golden child: The Early Renaissance master During Sandro Botticelli's lifetime (1444/45-1510), the influence of his art scarcely reached beyond his native Florence, and following his death he was soon forgotten, to be rediscovered only in the 19th century by the Pre-Raphaelites. Since then, B ...Show more
Bruegel by Rose-Marie Hagen
Category: Art and Design | Series: Basic Art 2.0
The sense of a scene: Pieter Bruegel's mastery of composition and community The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31-1569) was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beautiful, evocative landscapes as well as religious subjects, bot ...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
Case Study Houses by Elizabeth A. T. Smith
Category: Architecture | Series: Basic Arts Ser.
Modernism to the masses: Pioneering designs for affordable postwar homesThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building boom with prototype modern hom ...Show more