Baroque 1600-1780

Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring is almost as famous as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. And yet the life and work of the painter remains as enigmatic as ever. This volume shows Vermeer's small oeuvre and puts it into the context of Dutch genre painting of the seventeenth century....

Prawie 600 dzieł impresjonistów w jednym albumie. Obrazy Pissarra, Moneta, i kształtowanie się stylu, postimpresjonizm i dzieła van Gogha, impresjoniści francuscy, niemieccy i hiszpańscy, obrazy twórców ze Skandynawii i Nowego Świata. Nieprzebrany zbiór sztuki impresjonistycznej z całego świata zaprezentowany w imponującym formacie 28 x 31 cm....

During the origin of Renaissance painting in Italy, a world view was revived that enabled man to determine his own existence. In painting, new themes developed along with an orientation toward representing reality. This naturalism was influenced by Dutch painting from around 1450, and as the fifteenth century transitioned into the sixteenth, Rome followed Florence as the center of the Renaissance. Shortly thereafter, the new style radiated to other countries. In northern Europe, the Renaissance ...