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The Glamour of Strangeness by Jamie James
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie James

The Empire of the Self There is no ease in royal affairs, we have no comfort. Our sorrow is bitter, but we would not return to our country. —Ezra Pound, ...
( Category: History August 24,2016 )
Monet's Palate Cookbook by Bordman Aileen
epub |eng | 2015-08-20 | Author:Bordman, Aileen

Mixed Greens and Roasted Beet Salad with Pecans and Roquefort Dressing The French adore green salads (salades vertes) and Monet was no exception. He and his family always had two ...
( Category: French August 21,2016 )
Peacock & Vine by A. S. Byatt
epub |eng | 2016-08-01 | Author:A. S. Byatt

Quando tornai a Venezia fui indotto a ricercare gli antichi metodi della stampa su stoffe. Le scoperti fatte da Angelo Mosso su Creta furono di grande incentivo a tentare alcune ...
( Category: Essays August 5,2016 )
Universe of Stone by Philip Ball
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Ball

Rigid distinctions that continue to be made between practical, theoretical, and allegorical geometry are likely to be more modern than medieval…It is unlikely that a patron would have understood the ...
( Category: History July 18,2016 )
Eye of the Sixties by Judith E. Stein
epub |eng | | Author:Judith E. Stein

15 WRONG MAN AT THE RIGHT TIME It’s a wonder that the Green had a fifth year at all. “I don’t know, Jim. I just don’t know … I don’t ...
( Category: United States July 17,2016 )
Delphi Complete Works of Vincent Van Gogh (Illustrated) by Vincent van Gogh
epub |eng | 2012-03-04 | Author:Vincent van Gogh [Gogh, Vincent van]

( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers July 9,2016 )
The Stranger and the Statesman by Nina Burleigh
epub |eng | 2015-03-12 | Author:Nina Burleigh [Burleigh, Nina]

WHEN HE LEFT Frascati’s late in the evening, Smithson returned to one of a series of rented and furnished apartments he kept in Paris. He lived alone, although he had ...
( Category: United States June 29,2016 )
The Sketchbook Project World Tour by Steven Peterman
epub |eng | 2015-06-26 | Author:Steven Peterman [Peterman Steven and Peterman Sara Elands]

MEET THE ARTIST Pär Boström UMEÅ, SWEDEN DO YOU HAVE ANY FORMAL ARTISTIC TRAINING? No. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ARTISTIC TOOL? My pencils and stamping pads. HAVE YOU ALWAYS KEPT ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
1619025973 (N) by Bernadette Murphy
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Bernadette Murphy

• CHAPTER ELEVEN • ON TO THE PROMISED LAND But if you never did anything you couldn’t undo you’d end up doing nothing at all. —ANNE TYLER, Ladder of Years ...
( Category: History June 26,2016 )
Think Like an Artist by Will Gompertz
epub |eng | 2016-02-02 | Author:Will Gompertz

And there was plenty to consider, not least how to paint people. In medieval art paintings tended to present flat images, letting artists off the hook when it came to ...
( Category: History May 10,2016 )
The Art of Building in the Classical World by John R. Senseney
epub |eng | 2011-05-08 | Author:John R. Senseney

78 Artemision and agora, Magnesia-on-the-Maeander. Restored ground plan showing W. Hoepfner's proposed geometric underpinning. Drawing author, modified from W. Hoepfner, in Hermogenes: Figure 1. integral to the visual experience of ...
( Category: History May 9,2016 )
Versailles by Tony Spawforth
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Tony Spawforth

8. Behind Closed Doors IN THE seventeenth century, when Versailles was built, privacy mattered much less to the French upper classes than it did a hundred years later. On the ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments May 2,2016 )
Folk Arts of Japan by Hugo Munsterberg
epub |eng | | Author:Hugo Munsterberg

Plate 66. Daruma dolls, papier-mâché, from Gumma Prefecture (left) and Fukuoka Prefecture (right). Plate 67. Girl Daruma, papier-mâché. Ehime Prefecture. Plate 68. Tiger figurine, papier-mâché. Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. Plate 69. ...
( Category: History April 27,2016 )
Gothic Art by Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl
epub |eng | 2014-02-24 | Author:Victoria Charles & Klaus H. Carl [Charles, Victoria & Carl, Klaus H.]

87. Dirk Bouts, “Pearl of Brabant” Altarpiece: Adoration of the Magi (central panel), c. 1470. Oil on wood, central panel 62.5 x 62.5 cm. Alte Pinakothek, Munich (Germany). 88. Rogier ...
( Category: History April 25,2016 )
Art and Science by Eliane Strosberg
epub |eng | 2015-03-15 | Author:Eliane Strosberg

The Jingting Mountains in the Fall, Shitao, seventeenth century In Chinese painting, the human silhouette is lost in the vast landscape. Size is often related to status rather than to ...
( Category: Criticism April 23,2016 )

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