Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 - 1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply Il Divino (the divine one). This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Гениален и скандален, Микеланджело да Караваджо е един от най-забележителните италиански художници. Когато не участва в гуляи и сбивания или не е преследван заради смъртна присъда от папата, той създава оригинални творби, различни от тези на всички преди него. Изпълнените му с драматизъм картини го превръщат не само в най-прочутия художник в Рим в зората на XVII век, но и в основоположник на бароковата живопис. Влиянието му отеква векове след неговата преждевременна смърт. Романът на норвежкия писател Атле Нес се фокусира точно върху най-бурните моменти от живота на Караваджо. Той скандализира с натуралистичните си ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Рим - 1510 г. Докато Микеланджело рисува фреските в Сикстинската капела, скелето внезапно се срутва. Дали зад това не се крие опит за убийство? Детективите с машината на времето бързо разбират, че негов конкурент се опитва да го премахне. Поредицата Детективи с машина на времето съдържа: заплетени криминални загадки; вълнуващи пътешествия в миналото; автентична историческа обстановка; речник с важни понятия на епохата. ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Роман за Леонардо и Микеланджело. ... Вълнуващ роман, който изправя един срещу друг двама от най-изявените творци на Ренесанса - Леонардо да Винчи и Микеланджело Буонароти в периода 1501 - 1505 г., когато и двамата живеят и работят във Флоренция. Леонардо е вече утвърден петдесетгодишен художник, докато Микеланджело е млад скулптор, почти неизвестен във Флоренция, макар вече да е създал своята Пиета в Рим. Със своята пламенност и скромност Микеланджело печели поръчката на църковното настоятелство, която Леонардо е сигурен, че ще получи. От прочутия Камък на Ди Дучо той извайва това, което ще стане една от най- ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 - 1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio's boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualized languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling, often visceral humanity. This ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The art of ancient Egypt that has been handed down to us bears no names of its creators, and yet we value the creations of these unknown masters no less than the works of later centuries, such as statues by Michelangelo or the paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. This book introduces some of the most important masterpieces, ranging from the Old Kingdom during the Third millennium BC to the Roman Period. The works encompass sculptures, reliefs, sarcophagi, murals, masks, and decorative items, most of them now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, but some occupying places of honor as part of the World Cultural Heritage in museums ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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At the age of six, Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. "Since then", he later said, "my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dali, I have no greater wish". Throughout his life, Dali was out to become Dali: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dali's painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Neret located painted works by the master that had been ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |
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The self as a subject is one of the most fascinating and fruitful of artistic enterprises. From the 15th century to today, this collection brings together some of the best examples of self-portraiture to explore the genre's evolution over the centuries as well as the enduring questions of selfhood and self-representation that have besieged human experience for centuries before social media and the selfie. Is a self-portrait of an artist a medium of reflection? Or is it merely a black void, the "false mirror", as the Surrealist René Magritte entitled his 1928 painting of an eye? How much does it impart ...![](/b-images/quad-transp.gif) |