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Dutch Painting by Christopher Brown
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
The 17th century was the golden age of Dutch painting, with artists such as Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer producing a large variety of work, from intimate portraits to dramatic seascapes. This book presents a selection of paintings that evoke the spirit of that age.
Egon Schiele by Christopher Short
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
As a precocious child talent, growing up in 1890s Vienna - the same that nurtured the psychoanlysis of Freud - Egon Schiele developed a distinctive personal style that matched his obsession with sex, life and death. Although he died young he produced a body of paintings, watercolours and drawings that r ...Show more
Fra Angelico by Christopher Lloyd; David White
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in artistory. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied byxtensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or blacknd white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed sourcenformation for th ...Show more
Gainsborough by Nicola Kalinsky
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the most brilliant and original portrait painters of the 18th-century, surpassing his great rival Reynolds with his abilty to capture a likeness and his superb handling of the paint. He was also a talented and sensitive landscape painter and has been hailed as the father o ...Show more
Gaugin by Alan Bowness
Category: Art and Design | Series: Colour library
An introduction to the work of Gauguin. Paul Gaugin (1848-1903) was one of the most formidable artists of the late nineteenth century, and one whose work was to have a profound influence on the development of art in the twentieth. He began as an Impressionist, but went on to develop a more two-dimension ...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
Impressionism by Mark Powell-Jones
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
An introduction to the masters of the Impressionist movement.The Impressionists developed one of the most innovative movements in the history of Western art. Their revolutionary ideas about light and colour, expression, realism, the aim of painting and the role of the artist, all laid the foundations of ...Show more
Italian Renaissance Painting by Sara Elliott
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
The Italian Renaissance was an era of unparalleled creativity. This great 'rebirth' in the arts and sciences, resulting in sortie of the most remarkable works of art ever produced, effectively formed a bridge between the Middle Ages and the modern world. In the context of painting, there was a rediscove ...Show more
Klimt by Catherine Dean
Category: Art and Design | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) was one of the most brilliant artists of the Austrian avant-garde. Admired for his sensual images of women and for his powerful and original vision, bc produced some of the most haunting and evocative images of all time including The Kiss, Love and The Three Ages of Woman, all o ...Show more
Leonardo by Patricia A. Emison
Category: Art and Design | Series: Colour Library
The latest addition to Phaidon's best-selling Colour Library series of affordable introductory books on the great masters and movements in art features all of Leonardo' da Vinci's painted works and a detailed illustrated introduction.
Manet by John Richardson
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was one of the greatest, as well as one of the most interesting, of nineteenth-century French painters. Acute observation, an extraordinary skilful handling of paint and a feeling for exquisite harmonies of colour make his work both vivid and enchanting. It is also of great signi ...Show more
Modigliani by Douglas Hall
Category: Art | Series: Phaidon Colour Library
This series acts as an introduction to key artists and movements in art history. Each title contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative illustrations in colour or black and white, a concise introduction, select bibliography and detailed source informatio ...Show more