This is a pocket-sized A-Z guide to 500 great painters and sculptors from medieval to modern times. Each artist is represented by a full-page colour plate of typical work, accompanied by information on each image and its creator. Artists, styles and subject matter are cross referenced.

A sumptuous new look for Tracy Chevalier's bestselling novel.

Subtitled 'The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio', this new edition reproduces all 435 of Audubon's hand-coloured engravings from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the Double elephant folio. The book is reorganised and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson.

Since he illustrated the Faeries in 1978, Brian Froud has been fascinated by faery lore. Now, 20 years later, this book describes and illustrates the faery folk who still crowd his imagination.

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. This monograph presents the infamous Surrealist in full color and in his own words. It features his provocative imagery, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe.

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.

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics - and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. This monograph presents the infamous Surrealist in full color and in his own words. It features his imagery, from the soft watches to the notorious burning giraffe.

Offers an exploration of the power and the point of art. This book also explores the dynamic personalities of the artists and the spirit of the times they lived through, capturing the theatre of bourgeois life in Amsterdam, the passion and paranoia of Revolutionary Paris, and the carnage and pathos of civil-war Spain.

Harvard Professor Robert Langton, visiting Paris, is called in when the curator of the Louvre is murdered. Alongside the body is a series of baffling ciphers. Langton and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, are amazed to find a trail that leads to the works of Da Vinci - and beyond.

HR Giger first received acclaim in the 1960s with his airbrushed fantasy landscapes. However, he scored his breakthrough in applied art, and in his high-profile movie work on Ridley Scott's Alien . This book was designed by the artist himself, and features commentaries in which Giger describes his work from the early 1960s to the late 1990s.

Our landscape format Encyclopedia series in the 12 x 9 1/4 trim size have been so popular that we have created a more portable format for those who are interested in a smaller paperback edition. Beautifully illustrated throughout in full color. A great value and perfectly sized for gift giving.

A compact survey of painting in the Dutch Golden Age.

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Features 1001 paintings, ranging from ancient Egyptian wallpaintings to contemporary Western canvases, which were selected by Professor of Fine Art and acclaimed painter, Stephen Farthing. It also contains text written by a team of artists, curators, art critics and collectors which illuminates both the paintings and the people who painted them.

Contributors from a wide range of fields - including leading art historians, cultural commentators, a child psychiatrist and a graphic designer - shed light on the complexity of Rockwell's art, and his place in mass media imagery.

Katie helps the Mona Lisa to smile again!

This volume illustrates Monet's works from the last 40 years of his life at Giverny. It includes examples of the Haystacks, Poplars, Morning on the Seine, Japanese Footbridge and Water Lilies series, an account of Monet's life at Giverny and photographs of Monet and his house and garden.

Gustav Klimt's art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society - a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. His fame, however, rests on his reputation as one of the greatest erotic painters and graphic artists of his time.

Vincent van Gogh lived an unhappy and difficult life during which his work received almost no appreciation. But now he is considered one of the most important painters. This study of Gogh (1853-1890) presents a monograph on his life and art combined with a catalogue of his 871 paintings. It also reproduces most of van Gogh's paintings in color.

This work contains illustrations of all of Michelangelo's paintings, sculpture and architecture. The text surveys the opinions of leading Michelangelo scholars and provides a commentary with bibliographical notes.