Art History Painting

An epic historical saga of time travel and distorted romance, transporting the reader to some of Amsterdam’s most memorable periods of history; wartime, riots, famine, and the plague. Robert has his own personal medical challenge, diabetes. As you might expect his condition does not exactly sit well with several episodes of accidental time-travel sessions leaping into the past of historical Netherlands. Each time Robert travels in time, his fate is bound up with the same woman (or is it?), and with the work of The Netherlands' most famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn. Take a walk through ...

Ten-year-old Emily Ellis doesn’t feel seen. Her family is busy, school is noisy, and the world seems to move too fast for a quiet, curious girl who would rather sketch than speak. But everything changes the day she ducks into the sleepy, echoing halls of the Grayson Gallery, where silence hums with secrets, and every frame hides a story. There, she meets Mr. Beauregard, a peculiar curator with a cane, a knowing smile, and a key to a world beyond the canvas. Because after closing time, the paintings come alive, quite literally. From dancing with Degas’ ballerinas to flying through Van ...

As a child, Andy loved to draw. He took classes at the Carnegie Museum of art, where his teacher told the class,"everything you look at has art." In college many teachers didn't appreciate Andy's understanding of art. He annoyed them by doing things his own way - like by cutting a painting into four parts and submitting it as separate assignments. But later, his unique approach would lead to people everywhere reevaluating their ideas.

Artist Index provides a glossary of individual creators 14th to 21st centuries, with bio-data linked to sources for further reading. It is part of the series Painted Histories released September 2022 to May 2023.

Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribution for killing a man in a brawl. Three years later he was in Naples, where he painted The Seven Acts of Mercy. A year later he died at the age of thirty-eight under mysterious circumstances. Exploring Caravaggio's singular masterwork, in The Guardian of Mercy Terence Ward offers an incredible narrative journey into the heart of his artistry and his metamorphosis from fugitive to visionary.

Leonardo da Vinci has long been celebrated for his consummate genius. He was the painter who gave us the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and the inventor who anticipated the advent of airplanes, hot air balloons, and other technological marvels. But what was the connection between Leonardo the painter and Leonardo the scientist?

Over a long, turbulent life, Picasso continually discovered new ways of seeing the world and translating it into art. A restless genius, he went through a blue period, a rose period, and a Cubist phase. He made collages, sculptures out of everyday objects, and beautiful ceramic plates. True Kelley's engaging biography is a wonderful introduction to modern art.

Si hubiera que definir con una sola palabra la pintura románica, tendríamos que llamarla "antinaturalista". La pintura románica, igual que la bizantina, resulta poco naturalista comparada con la desarrollada desde el Renacimiento hasta el siglo XIX. Mas no debe achacarse todo a la torpeza técnica de sus autores. No se trata de torpeza técnica. Para comprender el fenómeno de la pintura románica debemos remontarnos un poco más atrás y recordar los rumbos que tomó la civilización europea y el arte cristiano desde el Bajo Imperio Romano.

전시회에 가는 것을 좋아하는 사람들은 많지만, 미술 작품을 구매해 재테크를 하는 사람은 드물다. 보통 미술 투자는 부자들의 전유물이라는 고정관념이 있기 때문이다. 『나는 샤넬백 대신 그림을 산다』를 출간한 저자 윤보형은 미술 투자인 '아트테크'야말로 주식과 부동산보다 보통의 사람들에게 적합한 재테크라고 말한다.

En el siglo XV discurre en Cataluña y Levante bajo la influencia de las dos grandes escue­las renacentistas europeas: italiana y flamenca. En Castilla la pintura del siglo XV sigue un rumbo diferente que hemos de analizar con más detalle. Ante todo, hemos de decir que se nota un sensible retraso entre los estilos renacentistas de Cataluña y Castilla. Es un retraso espacial, puesto que Cataluña se halla en contacto directo con los focos franceses, y mantiene con Italia un ininterrumpido comercio marítimo.

Frida Kahlo, one of the world's most famous and unusual artists, is revered around the world. Her life was filled with laughter, love, and tragedy, all of which influenced what she painted on her canvases.

An illuminating journey into the soul of modern art—where paint, intuition, and the sacred feminine converge. What if the great women abstract expressionists weren’t just artists—but mystics, visionaries, and intuitive healers working in pigment and silence? In Sacred Gestures, art historian and author Vivienne Sinclair reclaims the long-overlooked spiritual legacy of female abstract painters. From the transcendent color fields of Helen Frankenthaler to the emotional storms of Joan Mitchell, and the high-vibration joy-infused work of contemporary artist Cassandra Gaisford, this ...

Frida Kahlo is one of the most famous and celebrated artists who has ever lived. Before she made history with her beautiful paintings and brave spirit, she went through a life-changing accident that would have made many people want to give up. Instead, Frida fought to overcome her setbacks and follow her passions. In this Frida Kahlo children’s book, you’ll explore how Frida went from being a young girl in a small Mexican town to an artist who is beloved all around the world.

Andy Warhol was a visionary artist whose innovative techniques and revolutionary ideas forever changed the landscape of modern art and culture. A multifaceted figure, he excelled in blending creativity, commercialism, and sheer brilliance to redefine the boundaries of art. This book invites the reader to rediscover Warhol's life, exploring his motivations, his groundbreaking works, and the legacy of his artistic genius. From the birth of Pop Art to his iconic images of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup Cans, Warhol's journey is a testament to the transformative power of innovation and ...

Acompañando a las catedrales góticas de la Baja Edad Media surgen una escultura y una pintura características que resultan también inconfundibles. Las formas, sobre todo los cuerpos humanos, van cogiendo un aire natural del que carecían en el románico y vuelven profundizar en la realidad vital sentando las bases de lo que luego va a llamarse Renacimiento.

A finales del siglo XIX comienzan a sentirse los primeros gritos de alerta. Si en el XVI el pueblo rector era Italia, en el XIX Francia ocupaba el sitio de honor reservado a los caudillos artísticos, concretamente París. Y en París comienzan a sonar nombres y a exponer pinturas unos artistas que se revuelven inquietos bajo el peso del esteticismo impresionista. Toulouse Lautrec y Van Gogh son dos de los más representativos que se orientan por el camino del expresionismo.

El siglo XIX es uno de los más complejos y variados desde el punto de vista pictórico. Numerosas tendencias estilísticas penetran en nuestro país procedentes en su mayoría de Francia. Sus influencias son simultáneas y es muy difícil deslindar dónde terminan los brotes neoclásicos, por ejemplo, y empiezan los románticos.

El siglo XVIII es un período estéril de la pintura española, salvo la gran figura de Goya, el "monstruo", que va a llenar con su obra genial un gran vacío de cien años. Este hecho, repetido y confirmado por cien autores diferentes, es un poco extraño y hubiera debido despertar la curiosidad de los investigadores en búsqueda de las razones que lo hicieron posible.

El término Renacimiento es demasiado amplio -y no poco confuso- a la hora de precisar los límites del fenómeno pictórico. Para unos el Renacimiento es una continuación del arte gótico; para otros es, sin embargo, una reacción contra él; unas veces se habla de Renacimiento con un sentido temporal (siglos XIV a XVI), otras prefiere entenderse como norma "espacial" (Italia y Flandes). Estas distintas interpretaciones, que conviven y alientan en el complejo vocablo, nos anuncian la única cualidad clara y distinta del Renacimiento: su falta de claridad.

En la Historia del Arte Español, como en la de cualquier país, lo más difícil, y para muchos lo más fácil, es recoger una serie de nombres, estilos, figuras, etc. que estudiar. Difícil porque no se sabe quienes son los mejores, ya que hablando de estilos artísticos es muy complicado llegar a determinar cuál es la belleza por excelencia, cuando ésta es algo subjetivo de cada espectador que la contempla y teniendo en cuenta que entran en litigio muchos elementos -y no todos objetivos ni igualmente valorables- que hacen recaer una mayor responsabilidad al efectuar esa valoración.