The lighthouse, an indefatigable watchman, ceaselessly guides boats to their ports.This beacon of maritime signalisation has guided sailors since a...
Книги автора - Victoria Charles
Dalí
Painter, designer, creator of bizarre objects, author and film maker, Dalí became the most famous of the Surrealists. Buñuel, Lorca, Picasso and Br...
1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art
1000 Drawings of Genius
Long thought of as the neglected stepchild of painting, the art of Drawing has recently begun to enjoy a place in the sun. With major museums aroun...
1000 Portraits of Genius
According to the predominant standards, a portrait should be a faithful representation of its model. However, this is not always the case. This gal...
The Brueghels
Pieter Brueghel was the first important member of a family of artists who were active for four generations. Firstly a drawer before becoming a pain...
Botticelli
He was the son of a citizen in comfortable circumstances, and had been, in Vasari’s words, “instructed in all such things as children are usually t...
30 Millennia of Erotic Art
From the thousand-year-old statues celebrating fertility, to the odalisques of the modern painters, erotic art has always held a prominent place in...
30 Millennia of Sculpture
From its prehistoric origins to the conceptual modernity of the 21st century, sculpture has literally and figuratively moulded the art world. Offer...