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The Virgin and the Child are amongst the most favourite artistic themes since the Middle Ages. Mary was frequently depicted with the Christ Child.This religious scene showcases a mother and her son, …

In 1591, Giovanni Paolo Gallucci published his  Della simmetria dei corpi humani, an Italian translation of Albrecht Dürer’s  Four Books on Human Proportion. While Dürer’s treatise had been …

Appealing to all ages, “Play with Us” is the original book by Suzanna Giamusso.This beautiful coloring book features delicate and highly detailed pen-and-ink illustrations and they all waiting to be …

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842 -1904) was one of the most famous Russian war artists and one of the first Russian artists to be widely recognized abroad. The graphic nature of his realist scen …

William Holman Hunt (1827 – 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid color, and el …

46 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 1 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: ‘Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was …

22 illustrations, some color, some black-and-white. Volume 6 of Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Scultptors and Architects According to Wikipedia: ‘Giorgio Vasari (30 July 1511 – 27 June 1574) was …

This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of portrait drawings and paintings by Anders Zorn. Anders Zorn was natural from Yvraden, a rural community of …

Giovanni Boldini was an artist who can hardly be attributed to any kind of school, genre, or even artistic movement in art. He was an Italian origin but most of his life and career as an artist was s …

This treatise is a brief but very concise introduction to Asian art. Writing from a Japanese perspective and focusing on Japanese art, one of the most important themes is the relationship between spi …