History of Art & Design Styles: c 1800 to c 1900

An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the nations centennial to World War I  ...

In Mimesis Across Empires, Natasha Eaton examines the interactions, attachments, and crossings between the visual cultures of the Mughal and Britis...

How a wave of exotic botanical imports from across Britains empire shaped its gardens and psyche   Between 1760 and 1840, exotic plants were import...

The sunflower is mine, Van Gogh once declared. No other artist has been so closely associated with a specific flower, and his sunflower pictures ar...

An original interpretation of the final years of Van Goghs career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings   The years prior to Van G...

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. Created in ...

From the 150 Best series, a gorgeous collection of inspiring design ideas for transforming tiny interiors into beautiful and inviting living spaces...

Anlässlich des 175. Geburtstags von Max Liebermann wird erstmals der herausragende Bestand seiner Zeichnungen im Kupferstichkabinett der Staatliche...

Wellington Portrayed is a new, extended and up- to-date version in colour of The Iconography of the 1st Duke of Wellington published in 1935: the b...

Gauguin began his artistic life as an Impressionist in Paris, but yearning for a wider world view he experimented with decorative art and bright c...

At the end of the nineteenth century Japanese collectors began to put together Impressionist collections of outstanding quality. This development b...

The Barnes Foundation s holdings of works by the renowned Post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne (1839 1906) sixty-one oils on canvas and eight works on p...

Vincent van Goghs story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of a...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impress...

Discover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impress...

The Mansion House, the palatial city residence of the Lord Mayor of London, is home to one of the capitals finest collections of British sculpture ...

A hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting ...

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting...

Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (18341917) in fact defied easy categor...

In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cézanne (18391906), busily plied his brush to landsca...

Adolf Loos (18701933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the countrys architectural ...

Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (18621918) still startles with his unabashed ero...