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Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this broad cultural survey, art historian and critic James Hall brilliantly maps the history of self-portraiture, from the earliest myths of Narcissus to the prolific self-image-making of contemporary artists. His intelligent and vivid account shows how artists' depictions of themselves have been part of a continuing tradition that reaches back for centuries. Along the way he reveals the importance of the medieval 'mirror craze'; the explosion...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
403 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city, embracing facts and romance, history and artists, carnival masks and leper colonies, wars and sieges, and scandals and seductions.
23) Renoir
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
1190L
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renoir was renowned for his works with their vibrant light and color and the harmony of the lines he portrayed within his landscapes, and figure paintings.
Renoir was renowned for his works with their vibrant light and color and the harmony of the lines he portrayed within his landscapes, and figure paintings. At the beginning of his prolific career he employed the Impressionist techniques, where detail was denied, and replaced with soft fusions...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 527 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen's Weapons, men born to destroy the Queen's enemies--no matter what face that enemy wears. Daemonar Yaslana knows how to be bossy yet supportive--traits he shares with his father, the Demon Prince, and his uncle, the High Lord of Hell. Within his generation of the family, he assumes the role of protector, supporting his sister Titian's artistic efforts and curbing his cousin...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Ace mass-market edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 622 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They are Warlord Princes, men born to serve and protect. They are the Queen's Weapons, men born to destroy the Queen's enemies--no matter what face that enemy wears. Daemonar Yaslana knows how to be bossy yet supportive--traits he shares with his father, the Demon Prince, and his uncle, the High Lord of Hell. Within his generation of the family, he assumes the role of protector, supporting his sister Titian's artistic efforts and curbing his cousin...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 306 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates (folded pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Author Javier Sierra embarks on a grand tour of the Prado museum in this historical novel that illuminates the fascinating mysteries behind some of the greatest paintings in the world--complete with gorgeous, full-color inserts of artwork by Raphael, Boticelli, and other masters." --
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
v, 231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Art historian Catherine McCormack challenges how culture teaches us to see and value women, their bodies, and their lives. Cultural archetypes have long been used to subjugate women, binding them within the restrictive roles of Venus, bride, wife, mother, and monster. These portrayals echo throughout the paintings and sculptures of western art--Titian, Botticelli, and Giambologna--and more contemporaneously in fashion photographs, ads, and across...
Author
Publisher
Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
544 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 35 cm
Language
English
Description
This monumental new book is the first to celebrate the greatest and most iconic paintings of one of the largest, most important, and most beloved museums in the world. This impressive volume's broad sweep of material, all from a single museum, makes it at once a universal history of painting and the ideal introduction to the iconic masterworks of this world-renowned institution. Lavish color illustrations and details of 500 masterpieces, created over...
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (186 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series presents a unique and masterly survey of the greatest achievements in the history of art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world. This authoritative and thought-provoking series employs powerful graphic images to entertain and inform the student and the art lover. The collection also features expert commentary and analyses from leading authorities, art historians and scholars, new location footage and re-creations.
Author
Publisher
Taschen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
761 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
". . . [This book] puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass, to help us look much, much closer at images we might have thought we knew well. Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen help us become detectives of details, solving the mysteries of a masterpiece through its most small and subtle elements. Is the bride pregnant? Why is just one candle burning in the chandelier?...
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