This book claims to be the facsimile edition of the notebook of Lady Angelica Cottington, who, it is said, took the infamous photograph of a group of fairies that was authenticated by Conan Doyle, but later discredited. Lady Cottington was determined to prove the existence of fairies, and began to capture them between the pages of her notebook, in which she had previously pressed wild flowers. In

A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created David , painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's.

The classic international bestseller -- a marvellously exciting and stimulating look at the emergence and development of Western civilisation

The second volume of Gorey's macabre and oddball verse, prose and black and white illustrations.

Why did renowned Dutch graphic artist Maurits Cornelis Escher create the pictures? How did he construct them? And how are the various images Escher created interrelated? This book, including biographical data, illustrations, and explications of mathematical problems, offers answers to these and other questions.

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Masaccio, before ...

An illustrated 100-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. .

This series of tales revolves around an imaginary painting by Vermeer. Each tale reflects the impact the painting has on the the people around it whose lives it either illuminates or darkens.

Part travelogue, part narrative history, this work unlocks the history of the colours of the rainbow, and reveals how paints came to be invented, discovered, traded and used. This book looks at how green was carried by yaks along the silk road, and how an entire nation was founded on the colour purple.

A new volume in the correspondence series that began with Griffin and Sabine reveals the fates of the original characters while introducing Matthew and Isabella, long-distance lovers who find themselves in a perilous situation.

The work of Banksy is unmistakable, except maybe when it's squatting in the Tate or New York's Metropolitan Museum. Banksy is responsible for decorating the streets, walls, bridges and zoos of towns and cites throughout the world. This fully coloured illustrated volume presents the best of his work.

Following in the tradition of Phaidon's The Art Book , this is an illustrated dictionary which presents in alphabetical order the work of 500 great artists from the 20th century. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of a key work and a short text about the work of the artist.

Jean le Viste, a newly wealthy member of the French court, commissions the tapestries to hang in his chateau. Nicolas, his chosen designer, meets le Viste's wife Genevieve and his daughter Claude, both of whom take a keen interest in the tapestries. This novel is written by the author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and Falling Angels .

This selection offers a cross-section from the 6,000 surviving sheets that constitute Leonardo's notebooks, including his thoughts on landscape, optics, anatomy, architecture, sculpture, and painting. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Leonardo expert Martin Kemp.

A sumptuous illustrated journey through Terry Pratchett's DISCWORLD; a companion volume to THE LAST HERO

Kimon Nicolaides' guide to learning to draw, consists of 64 exercises and is still used in art schools all over the world 70 years after his death.

In volume 4 of the saga of Griffin and Sabine (volume 2 in the new Morning Star trilogy), intrigue turns to danger and romance turns to passion as Matthew Sedon and Isabella de Reims, lovers separated by continents, struggle to make sense of a world beyond experience. Only the guidance of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem - experienced navigators of myth and reality - can keep them safe. In Egypt, .

A classic study of image-making, this text seeks to answer a simple question: why is there such a thing as style? Professor Gombrich's exploration of the history and psychology of pictorial representation leads him to examine, question and re-evaluate old and new ideas.

When a scientist is found brutally murdered, Harvard professor Robert Langdon is asked to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. Realising it must be the work of the Illuminati - an ancient secret brotherhood sworn against Catholicism - the race is on to prevent a tragedy.