In The Work of Art, Anthea Callen analyzes the self-portraits, portraits of fellow artists, photographs, prints, and studio images of prominent nineteenth-century French …
Rembrandt van Rijn and the Netherlands grew up together. The artist, born in Leiden in 1606, lived during the tumultuous period of the Dutch Revolt and the establishment of the …
"e;Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure-that of being Salvador DalHe was a force unto himself, an icon of outrageousness, artistic brilliance, …
Vermeer's Wager stands at the intersection of art history and criticism, philosophy and museology. Using a familiar and celebrated painting by Johannes Vermeer as a case study, …
This book contemplates a large problem: what is a traditional Chinese painting? Wu Hung answers this question through a comprehensive analysis of the screen, a major format and a …
In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner-then valued at twenty-four million pounds-were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain. In this vivid, …
Undeniably one of the greatest artists of all time, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio would develop a radically new kind of psychologically expressive, realistic art and, in the …
"e;What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't …
A critical biography of the most celebrated religious icon painter in medieval Russia. A monk from Moscow, Andrey Rublev (c.1360-c.1430) is heralded as the greatest painter of …
The surviving work of Flemish painter Jan van Eyck (c. 1395-1441) consists of a series of painstakingly detailed oil paintings of astonishing verisimilitude. Most explanations of …
