Painting & Paintings

This title was first published in 2002: Jörg Breu belonged to the generation of German Renaissance artists that included Dürer, Cranach, Grünewa...

Rendering Tips for the Costume Designer: Simple Steps for Better Drawing and Painting is a guide for students and costume designers who want to imp...

The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

Reviewers of a recent exhibition termed Federico Barocci (ca. 15331612), 'the greatest artist youve never heard of'. One of the first original icon...

This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably Indias most iconic contemporary artist today, w...

Few devotees of the form can approach Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijns radical contributions to self-portraiture. Challenging the conventions enshri...

For René Magritte, painting was a form of thinking. Through paintings of ordinary objects rendered with illusionism, Magritte probed the limits of ...

This title was first published in 2002: Draw ing on extensive primary research, Greg Smith describes the shifting cultural identities of the Englis...

Pierre-Auguste Renoirs (18411919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-for...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Édouard Manet (18321883) is now considered a crucial figu...

Simply magical manga in watercolor! Learn how to create beautiful manga art from pencil sketch to finished painting, with this comprehensive guide....

Jacques Majorelle (1886-1962) is an emblematic figure of Orientalism. The son of the cabinet-maker Louis Majorelle, he trained at the École nationa...

The first volume of the series Raphael and His Time starts with a study of the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione in its cultural contexts confront...

This breathtaking multi-dimensional exploration of Belgiums most famous artist looks beyond his identity as a painter of masks and reveals a man of...

George Kordis has painted a frieze along the walls of the third floor of the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens. The mural constitute...

From endless spaces to interiors, from ultramarine to cobalt blue: this book traces the development of Patrick Kaufmanns (*1971) art over several c...

'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates an...

Mycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced...

Theresa Möller (*1988) explores the tragic entanglement and indissoluble interdependency of natural evolution and cultural development. Her work is...