Lawrence Alma-Tadema was born in the Netherlands but spent most of his adult life in England, becoming a member of the Royal Academy and later gaining a knighthood. He was the quintessential Classicist painter, taking many of his themes from Greek and Roman Mythology. His work has a rich dream-like quality which is well illustrated in this book.
Gustav Klimt began his life as a successful painter of murals and as a designer of pageants in the age of Emperor Franz Joseph in Austria. He was a key member of the Viennese Succession movement who sought a more modern style of painting. He believed that human suffering could only be reviled through art and love. This ideal is enshrined in many of his finest works, giving an insight into his productive, if turbulent, life.
This series of books provides an invaluable guide to the world's great artists. Each volume contains a comprehensive introduction and a collection of great works, each of which is accompanied by an explanatory caption.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was an association of painters, formed in London in 1848. Its chief members were Holman Hunt, Millais and Rossetti. As a group, the Brotherhood lasted for little more than a decade, but it gave a new direction to Victorian art which lasted into the 20th century. They determined to paint direct from nature, with objective truthfulness, emulating the work of the great Italian artists before Raphael. They turned to the Bible and classical mythology for inspiration, and some of their best-known works are shown in this splendid volume, including Hunt's Light of the World and Millais' Christ in the House of His Parents.This series on the lives and works of the great painters provides an invaluable guide. In each volume, a short introduction gives a brief biography of the artist and explains the elements of his or her painting style. Fifty paintings are reproduced in full color, and an extended caption to each clearly explains the background to the work, its significance in the history of art, and its position in the complete canon of the artist's work.
Botticelli, one of the greatest painters of the renaissance, spent almost his whole life in Florence, and many of his greatest, best-known works, such as Primavera and the Birth of Venus, both reproduced here, were commissioned by the medici family, who then ruled the city-state. This volume also reproduces may of his exqui
This book gives a quick biography of Monet, explains the elements of his painting style, and includes fifty of his best-known and best-lovedworks.
This book gives a quick biography of Monet, explains the elements of his painting style, and includes fifty of his best-known and best-lovedworks.
