Stefano Zuffi

Simple, rhyming text invites the reader to count from one to twelve and more, while illustrations introduce works of art by such masters as Gainsborough, Van Gogh, and Matisse.

count from 1 to 12 with great works of art

Art 123

Toulouse-Lautrec. La ville lumière

Describes the concepts found in paintings created during the Renaissance in Italy, with each entry including a notable painting, notes about the concept, a short biography of the artist, and an interpretation of significant sections.

How to Read Italian Renaissance Painting

Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel (Rizzoli Quadrifolio)

Francesca Castria

i maestri di ogni tempo e i loro capolavori

La pittura italiana

This volume is a romp through the portrayal of love and sexuality in art. The book surveys Western artworks illustrating more or less explicitly delicate or amorous subjects.

Love and the Erotic in Art

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn

The triumphs and tragedies of Rembrandt's life are reflected in the humanity and emotion of his work. Discover the profound storytelling skills of the greatest Dutch master of the 17th century, and witness his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of life in his art.

Rembrandt

This handsome volume surveys the development of painting during one of the most important periods in the history of art, the Renaissance, which spanned the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Europe. Approximately 500 beautiful full-color reproductions of works by Italian, German, Spanish, French and Flemish artists fill this book. Among the 90 painters represented are Italians Fra Angelico, Piero della Francesca, Leondardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, and Titian...the French artists Jean Clouet and masters of the school of Fountainebleau...The Germans Albrecht Durer and Lucas Cranach...northern European masters including Pieter Bruegel, Jan van Eyck, Hieronymus Bosch, and many others. The book's faithful reproductions represent paintings in churches, palaces, and museums throughout Europe and America. -- From back cover.

The Golden Age of European Art

Renaissance Painting

Venice is the jewel of the Adriatic that produced Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian & other storied artists. Approximately 500 colorplates & a wonderfully accessible text take readers on a chronological grand tour of Venetian painting, sculpture, architecture, & decorative arts.

Art in Venice

The Rizzoli Quadrifolio art series combines the most popular artists with authoritative text and a fresh, unique format destined to appeal to children and adults alike. Featuring sixteen pages that open up to four times the original size, this series allows the reader to delve into details of individual paintings or see a horizontal development in a fresco. With stunning color reproductions, expert commentary, and a revolutionary format, the Rizzoli Quadrifolios is a pioneering art series. Following the success of Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel and Vincent Van Gogh are two new books on artists whose work continues to inspire: Klimt and Carvaggio. Gustav Klimt's work remains widely popular today, admired for the sensual portraits of women and the signature use of gold. Gustav Klimt includes thirty-one of the Viennese artist's works, from his famous The Kiss to the vast Beethoven Frieze. Carvaggio has enjoyed renewed popularity, inspired by recent biographies investigating his fascinating life and work. He is "more fashionable today than any time since the early seventeenth-century" (New Republic, January 17, 2000). Carvaggio highlights twenty-eight paintings by the tormented Baroque master, including Judith Beheading Holofernes and the Calling of Saint Matthew.

Caravaggio

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Dürer makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. This monograph explores Dürer's entire life and oeuvre by focusing on the most important of his works. It follows the artist as he traveled throughout Europe, completing commissions for noblemen, kings, emperors, and popes-all the while satisfying his own thirst for knowledge and struggling with the changes brought about by the Reformation. Overflowing with impeccably reproduced images, this book offers full-page spreads of masterpieces as well as highlights of smaller details-allowing the viewer to appreciate every aspect of the artist's technique and output. Chronologically arranged, the book covers important biographical and historic events that reflect the latest scholarship. Additional information includes a list of works, timeline, and suggestions for further reading.

Masters of Art

Durer

Examines the life and work of Rembrandt, through more than 300 colour reproductions of his paintings which are documented and placed in their social and historical context. This book is one of a series which explores art from the end of the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century.

Art in Venice is a lavishly illustrated and comprehensive collection of the painting, architecture, sculpture, mosaic, glass, and gold work of one of the world's most romantic, beautiful, and historically rich cities. The book is organized in a straightforward chronological fashion: divided into major periods of Venetian history, each section including historical and cultural information, as well as the exact location of each artwork and biographies of each of the artists discussed. Including over 500 masterpieces from the eight to the twentieth century, the book features the art of such important Venetian masters as Bellini, Mantegna, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, and Tintoretto.

Brilliant full-color reproductions of 500 works by 100 master painters.

The Impressionists--and the Avant-garde of the Twentieth Century

Modern Painting

Johannes Vermeer

Traces the life of the artist, analyzes his works, and explains the historical and social context of his painting.

Vermeer

Jay Hyams

Sergio Scardoni

Giorgio Seppi

Tatjana Pauli

The Renaissance was the period of greatest splendor in European art, generating countless masterpieces. Here is a magnificent book, truly worthy of that beauty - large-sized, exquisitely produced, all in color, and filled with 600 unforgettable works from Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Raffaello, Pieter Bruegel, Hans Holbein, Veronese, El Greco, Botticelli, and many more of the greatest masters in art. From the late Gothic style in 1401 to the beginning of the Baroque in 1610, 200 years of painting, sculpture, drawing, decorative arts, and architecture vividly come to life through gorgeous illustrations and enthralling information on the radical changes that played out during that period of experimentation and artistic progress. This impressive study - with descriptive captions and a timeline - reveals the unique and contrasting features of the different movements that flourished during the Renaissance. A volume both dazzling and immensely useful for students and scholars.

1401-1610: The Splendor of European Art

The Renaissance

The Art Mysteries series examines several highly regarded masterpieces in an attempt to unravel the mysteries that surround them. Edited by Marco Carminati and Stefano Zuffi, they present an up-to-date and spectacular reading of famous paintings, investi

The Arnolfini Portrait

Van Eyck

In the sixteenth century, the humanist values and admiration for classical antiquity that marked the early Renaissance spread from Italy throughout the rest of the continent. Part of the "Art through the Centuries" series, this volume is divided into three sections that discuss the important people, concepts, and artistic centres of this period.

European Art of the Sixteenth Century

This stunning book offers insider access to Lake Maggiore's Borromeo Palace, a resplendent achievement of baroque Italian architecture. This is a perfect volume for classic Italian art and architecture lovers. In a unique natural setting--the Isola Bella island on Lake Maggiore, surrounded by the Alps--stands the sumptuous palace built, and still owned, by the Borromeo family. Photographs guide the readers through the halls of the palace, which overlooks the lake and offers charming views. The halls and rooms are furnished with luxury furniture, marble, and stucco decorations, and enriched with ancient sculptures, armory, and a valuable collection of six Flemish tapestries woven in gold and silk. A large painting collection can be admired in General Berthier's gallery.

Masterpiece of Italian Baroque

Borromeo Palace on Lake Maggiore

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered one of the greatest painters of all times. Often described as the archetype of the homo universalis, he was a true Renaissance polymath, active in fields as diverse as astronomy, painting, sculpting, science, mathematics, engineering, cartography and architecture. Leonardo's true genius was not as a scientist or an artist, but as a combination of the two: his painting was based on a deep understanding of the workings of the human body and the physics of light and shade. Only two dozens of works are attributed to the Florentine master and this book reveals them as never before, in stunning, full-page details. Leonardo in Detail is organized in thematic chapters, exploring the smiles, gestures, children, animals and nature depicted in the painter's works. Stefano Zuffi plays the perfect guide, explaining the significance of every detail in clear and accessible language, and offering original insights into Leonardo's most popular works, such as the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and The Lady with an Ermine.

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