The Lion Companion to Church Architecture

From the earliest establishments up through present day structures- this expansive history explores how churches have been conceived as spaces for worship throughout the centuries. Their development from the early Roman house churches through Byzantine- Romanesque- Gothic structures is addressed- as are the significant changes brought about by the Reformation. Infused throughout with the spirit…

World's Greatest Wonders A Family Reference Guide

World's Greatest Wonders takes you on a journey to some of the most stunning and especial places in the world. This beautifully illustrated family reference guide explores 30 wonders from Stonehenge and the Acropolis to the Grand Canyon and the Iguaçu Falls - with fantastic colour illustrations and photographs that capture both the magic and the majesty of these stunning natural wonders and in…

Van Gogh: The Man and the Earth

The Man and the Earth is the catalogue of the exhibition organised in collaboration with the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. It includes the self-portrait of Vincent, and many works from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Museo Soumaya-Fundacion Carlos Slim in Mexico City, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, and private collections normally unavailable to the public. The focus…

Romanticism in the North: From Friedrich to Turner

During the Romantic Era landscape painting reached the height of its popularity through artists such as J M W Turner in Great Britain, Caspar David Friedrich in Germany and Johan Christian Dahl in Norway. Whilst to this day their paintings continue to fascinate our imagination, a whole new artistic vision emerged during this era which would prove to have a determining influence on modern art. I…

Renaissance (Great Ages of Man)

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9780000000127

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192 hlm., 27 cm

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945 Hal

Mesopotamia: Ancient Art and Architecture

This book illuminates the artistic creativity of ancient Mesopotamia with new and profound conceptualizations for our generation.

Masterpieces of Classical Art

Encounter the magnificent art of the classical world in the pages of this richly illustrated book. Spans nearly 5000 years of mediterranean civilization. The British Museum holds one of the largest and most important collections of classical antiquities in the world.

Manet: Portraying Life

This remarkable book, published to accompany an important traveling exhibition, explores the artist's stylistic evolution in the context of his portraiture. The relationship between Manet's portraits and his genre scenes is presented for the first time, illustrated by such masterpieces as The Luncheon (In the Studio) of 1868, and In the Conservatory (M. and Mme. Guillemet) of 1879.

Kunsthistorisches Museum: History, Architecture, Decoration

The magnificent building on Vienna’s Ringstrasse which was opened in 1891 is at once one of the most important examples of museum architecture in Europe and an outstanding document of the Habsburg dynasty’s imperial self-representation. This new monograph on the history, architecture and decoration of Kunsthistorisches Museum presents the building’s wealth of painted, sculptural and archi…

Great Events that Changed Our Lives: The Most Important Moments from 1950 to …

Some events more than others have changed the pace and determined the direction that history has taken along its rugged path. Inconsistencies that are not always clearly evident occur much more frequently when the events of humanity speed up. Such was the case in the mid-twentieth century. In fact, after World War II, several historical events overlapped; new political and military balances, de…