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The intriguing, intimate and sometimes shocking drawings of Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele are brought together in this beautiful volume.

"The Albertina owns one of the world's most important collections of Netherlandish drawings dating from the period 1430 to 1650, including outstanding individual specimens from the circles around Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, or Dirk Bouts. Works by Hieronymus Bosch and Pieter Brueghel the Elder form one of the first highlights of this select collection. The rest of the sixteenth century is exemplified by masterful drawings by artists such as Jan Gossaert, Maarten van Heemskerck, and Hendrick Goltzius. The focus of the collection, however, is Holland's "Golden Age," the seventeenth century, with important works by Rembrandt van Rijn and his school. The southern Netherlands, once dominated by the House of Hapsburg, is represented by the most famous Flemish masters of the age: Peter Paul Rubens, Anton van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens."--Publisher's website.

Celebrating the 150th birthday of Gustav Klimt: survey of a huge collection Imposing publication and inexhaustible treasure trove for every lover of art

Explores the turn-of-the-century Viennese painter's life and work, highlights the utopian Seccession movement of which Klimt was a leader, and reproduces the artist's paintings, sketches, and correspondence

Explores the rich artistic culture of the Northern Netherlands in the seventeenth century. The numerous types of Dutch art that dominated seventeenth century Holland are exploredlandscape, genre, still life, seascape, biblical and mythological subjectsas well as the societal and political context that encouraged such richness and diversity.