Identified by Albrecht Durer in the sixteenth century as Venice's foremost painter, and hailed in the nineteenth by Jacob Burckhardt as the 'saviour' of Venetian painting, Giovanni Bellini is a pivota
Looks at the career of the Renaissance artist and describes the artistic and cultural influences that affected his works and the friendships he developed with leading humanists of the time period.
Hans Holbein the Younger was the leading artist of the Northern Renaissance, yet his life and work are not nearly as well-documented as those of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo. T
Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important
The foremost Swiss artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) transcended the artistic conventions of his time while creating a vast oeuvre of impressive
Like many artists, Paul Ce zanne started his great paintings by sketching his ideas on paper. This book recreates some of Ce zanne's sketchbooks as it delves into the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection of
Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) is arguably the foremost Swiss artist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Ignoring artistic conventions of his time he created a vast oeuvre of impressive landscape
