Claude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, soleil levant). It hung in the first Impressionist...

Anders Leonard Zorn was one of Sweden’s foremost artists who obtained international success as a painter, sculptor and print-maker in etching. His incisive ability to depict the individual character of...

This book contains 262 high-quality annotated reproductions with details of prints and drawings by Katsushika Hokusai. Some people say that the "devil's in the details" and generally, they are right....

This book contains 262 high-quality annotated reproductions with details of paintings and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci. Some people say that the "devil's in the details" and generally, they are right....

This book contains 335 high-quality annotated reproductions with details of paintings, prints and drawings by Rembrandt van Rijn. Some people say that the "devil's in the details" and generally, they...

Raffaello Sanzio was an Italian Renaissance painter, architect and designer. His work along with that of his older contemporaries Leonardo and Michelangelo defined the High Renaissance style in central...

Without academic education, self-taught, Van Gogh achieves its development as an artist by enthusiastically copying prints and studying 19th-century drawing manuals and example books. The Impressionists...

International diplomat, savvy businessman, devout Catholic, fluent in six languages, an intellectual who counted Europe's finest scholars among his friends Peter Paul Rubens was always first a painter....

Giorgio Vasari, in the enlarged edition of Lives of the Artists, 1568, introduced his chapter on Leonardo da Vinci with the following words: “In the normal course of events many men and women are born...

Paul Cézanne forms the connection linking late 19th century Impressionism and the early 20th century's new contour of Cubism. Matisse and Picasso together recognize that "Cezanne is the father of all...