Rainer Hagen

Продолжающаяся серия, выпускаемая совместно с немецким издательством "Taschen". Книга о самом крупном фламандском художнике XVI века Питере Брейгеле Старшем (ок. 1525 -1569), прозванном Мужицким. Источники, проливающие свет на его жизнь, крайне немногочисленны, хотя творчество его достаточно хорошо известно; картины, гравюры, рисунки часто подписаны и датированы. Брейгель стал известен еще при жи...

Египетское искусство было священным, божественным мастерством. Но только небольшая часть его памятников дошла до нас. Близость божественного и человеческого наполняла собой искусство, стала основой неповторимого стиля, правила и каноны которого сохранялись от эпохи пирамид вплоть до времени владычества Птолемеев. Подумав о Египте, наш современник чаще всего представляет себе пирамиды. Они стали о...

Whenever anyone thinks of Egypt the first thing they almost automatically think of is the pyramids. They stand for an entire country and a great, ancient culture. They have been, and still are, copied. The entrance building to the Louvre in Paris is

In this volume, the authors explore 27 famous paintings.

At a time when artists were still primarily occupied with religious or mythological subject matter, the great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525-1569) turned his eye on the everyday. Most of Bruegel's 45 surviving works, which are all reproduced in this book, record the facts of 16th century life in rural or small town communities. In this title in the Basic Art Series, Rose-Marie and Ra...

Francisco Josе de Goya y Lucientes, one of Spain's most revered and controversial painters, is known for his intense, chilling, and sometimes grotesque paintings depicting the injustice of society with brutal sincerity. A court painter to the Spanish crown, he captured, through his works, a snapshot of life in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Coming at the tail end of the Old ...

From the Land of the Pharaohs. The finest treasures from Ancient Egypt. The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. This book introduces some of the most important masterpieces, ranging...