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Автор: John Russell
Название: Vuillard
Издательство: New York Graphic Society
Год: 1971
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 248
Язык: English
Размер: 38 MB

In this many-sided portrait of one of the most important post-impressionists, Edouard Vuillard (i 868-1940) is reestablished not merely as the most delectable of the "Intimist" painters, but as a master of large-scale decorative art.

Автор: Emma Micheletti
Название: Velazquez (The Life and Work of the Artist)
Издательство: Grosset & Dunlap
Год: 1968
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 124
Язык: English
Размер: 17.3 MB

Diego de Silva Velazquez, usually known by his mother's name, Velazquez, was born in Calle de la Moreira, Seville, in 1399, and baptized in the parish church of San Pedro on 6 June. His father, Don Juan Rodriguez de Silva y Rodriguez, was the son of a Portuguese hidalgo, who may have moved from Seville to Oporto in the mid-sixteenth century; his mother Jeronima Velazquez was from Seville. Like many young men from good families, he probably had a thorough literary education, and all his life kept up his faith in the world of culture, particularly the classical. His library was evidence of this: greatly superior to those of most painters of his time, it was rich in poetry, religion, medicine, engineering and mathematics, and especially in works by Aristotle, Horace, Ovid, Pliny, and by Ariosto, Castiglione, Vasari, Vesalio and Diirer. It seems clear that he developed a special interest in architectural treatises, from Vitruvius to Alberti, Scamozzi, Serlio, Palladio and Vignola. All this suggests that the young Velazquez had a good, rigorous and well-balanced formal education. Perhaps encouraged by his cultivated master, Francisco Pacheco, he formed his roots in the fundamental principles of the Italian Renaissance.

Автор: John Rewald
Название: Pierre Bonnard
Издательство: Museum of Modern Art
Год: 1948
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 162
Язык: English
Размер: 24.5 MB

Pierre Bonnard (3 October 1867 — 23 January 1947) was a French painter and printmaker, as well as a founding member of the Post-Impressionist group of avant-garde painters Les Nabis. Bonnard preferred to work from memory, using drawings as a reference, and his paintings are often characterized by a dreamlike quality. The intimate domestic scenes, for which he is perhaps best known, often include his wife Marthe de Meligny.

Автор: Frederick Hartt
Название: Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture
Издательство: Harry N. Abrams
Год: 1968
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 320
Язык: English
Размер: 68.7 MB

With an engaging text by renowned Michelangelo scholar William E. Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture brings together in one exquisite volume the powerful sculptures, the awe-inspiring paintings, and the classical architectural works of one of the greatest artists of all time. Including everything from his sculptures Pietàs and David to his beautiful paintings of the Sistine Chapel and the Doni Tondo, the book provides an opportunity to view Michelangelo's work as never before, and to more fully understand the artist who, through his work, spoke of his life and times. The frescoes are specially printed on onion skin paper to recreate the actual appearance of light reflecting off of the plaster walls. The stunning black-and-white photography of the sculptures is printed in four colors to bring out the rich details of the marble.

Автор: Vittorio Giudici
Название: The Sistine Chapel: Its History and Masterpiece
Издательство: Peter Bedrick Books
Год: 2000
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 54
Язык: English
Размер: 12 MB

For five hundred years the Sistine chapel has been one of the most important places tor the Christian faith and for the entire history of art. The paintings that cover the walls and ceiling of the chapel are unique masterpieces portraying the story of humanity as intended by God, from the Creation to the Last Judgement. Many prominent figures have contributed to the construction, decoration and history of the chapel. Two popes of the Delia Rovere family, Sixtus IV and Julius II, more than anyone else, were responsible for making the chapel into the building we know today. The artists who gave expression to their projects were some of the greatest names in 15th-century painting— Perugino, Botticelli, Signorelli and Ghirlandaio—but the real giant among them was Michelangelo Buonarroti, the creator of the ceiling frescoes and the Last Judgement. In recent years master craftsmen have contributed to restoring these frescoes to their original splendor.

Название: Искусство "любви" в древнем Китае
Автор: Ван Гулик Роберт
Издательство: Центрполиграф
Год: 2003
Формат: djvu
ISBN: 5-9524-0167-8
Размер: 6,87 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: русский

В книге показано влияние на сексуальную культуру даосизма, конфуцианства, монгольской оккупации, а также искусства, литературы, семейной жизни; затронуты вопросы проституции высших классов и венерологических заболеваний. Все аспекты авторского исследования даются для определенных исторических периодов с 1500 г. до н. э. до 1644 г. н. э.

Название: Изящное искусство создавать себе врагов
Автор: Джемс Мак Нейль Уистлер
Издательство: М.: Искусство
Год: 1970
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 330
Размер: 108 mb
Язык: Русский

В книге «Изящное искусство создавать себе врагов» Уистлер отразил историю своей борьбы с реакционной критикой, выражавшей вкусы и устремления викторианского буржуазного общества.
Автор построил свою книгу весьма своеобразно: он дал в ней подборку из наиболее нелепых отзывов о своем творчестве и своих язвительных ответов и комментариев на них.
Первый раздел издания составляют выдержки из писем, воспоминаний современников и книг об Уистлере.

Автор: John Russell
Название: Seurat (A Praeger World of Art Profile)
Издательство: Frederick A. Praeger
Год: 1965
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 284
Язык: English
Размер: 64.2 MB

At the age of twenty-four, Georges Seurat exhibited his first great canvas, Une Baignade, Asnieres. Although he died only seven years later, he left behind him seven masterful paintings— including the witty and superbly organized Une Dimanche d'Lite a rile de la Grande Jatte. And the impact of his theory of color and structure is still felt.

Автор: Elda Fezzi
Название: Renoir (The Life and Work of the Artist)
Издательство: Grosset & Dunlap
Год: 1968
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 124
Язык: English
Размер: 21.4 MB

One of the greatest of the French painters associated with the Impressionists, Renoir was more influenced than they were by the earlier masters—above all by Rubens, the Venetians, Watteau and Boucher. The work of all these artists is imbued with the same frank delight in the senses that intoxicates us in Renoir's paintings of crowded cafe scenes, riverside landscapes, pretty girls in their colourful clothes, and children. When depicting such subjects Renoir used the technique of the Impressionists (especially of his friend Monet) to convey, with shimmering colour and lightness of touch, the pulsating gaiety of France in the 1870s. And yet it was his attachment to the art of the past that eventually led him to forsake Impressionism for a more classical style, characterized by clear modelling and carefuhy planned compositions. In the great nudes of his later years Renoir, without sacrificing the radiant sensuousness of his earlier works, certainly achieved the ' simplicity and grandeur' that (in his own words) he had always admired in the old masters.

Автор: Max Steck
Название: Durer and His World
Издательство: Viking Press
Год: 1964
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 150
Язык: English
Размер: 20.5 MB

Gives a written and pictorial sketch of Durer and his age, based on Durer's personal testimony and that of his contemporaries.