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Under the Microscope. The secrets behind world-renowned masterpieces If you thought these paintings were familiar, look again, and look closer. Part art history, part detective work, this fascinating collection explores 100 world-famous works of a...

Жизнь Рафаэля была недолгой, но богатой на события, и в европейском искусстве он оставил после себя великие шедевры. Его талант дал о себе знать очень рано, еще в годы обучения в мастерской отца Джованни Санти: в 1500 году, 17 лет от роду, он уже зас...

Ten in One: The Impressionists A special edition gathering TASCHEN’s Basic Art monographs on ten Impressionist masters A must-have for any art buff, this definitive who’s who of Impressionism gathers 10 monographs from the Basic Art s...

Defining Decadence. The legacy of Gustav Klimt Fall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. A century after his death, the Viennese artist still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. Master of 19th-centur...

Let’s Get Abstract. Making sense of revolutionary new forms The 20th century saw art go abstract. Where once clear certainties and indisputable forms prevailed, now anarchy seemed to reign supreme. Sensibilities diffused into strange new sha...

Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in America in the 1940s, with lead protagonists including J...

An extraordinary private collection of watercolours and drawings by Andrew Wyeth depicting the subjects memorialized in his legendary painting Christina's World, one of the best-known works of American art. This book presents rarely seen water...

Life lines. The 80s art star who put poverty, power, and racism on the wall An icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag "SAMO", before establishing his studio practice and ...

Brilliant Basquiat. An unprecedented insight into Basquiat’s art and work A condensed edition of the best-selling Basquiat monograph. Pristine reproductions of Basquiat’s seminal paintings, drawings, and notebook sketches, as well as t...

Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) is, without any doubt, one of the most famous artists in the history of Netherlandish painting This book explores his best-known paintings and drawings, showing them as never before in stunning, full-page details...

A richly illustrated book, reproducing all of Bosch’s masterpieces held by the Prado museum The Museum houses the largest known collection of works by Jheronimus Bosch. Among its holdings are The Adoration of the Magi and The Garden of Earth...

Now available in a new edition, this celebration of the life and art of the Renaissance genius presents Sandro Botticelli’s complete paintings and offers a comprehensive and thoroughly up-to-date study of his work. Botticelli is one of the m...

Florence s golden child. The Early Renaissance master During Sandro Botticelli s lifetime (1444/45-1510), the influence of his art scarcely reached beyond his native Florence, and following his death he was soon forgotten, to be rediscovered only ...

In the German city of Dresden on June 7, 1905, the foundation of the Die Brücke artists’ group (1905–1913) is widely regarded as the birth of Expressionism. Led by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Fritz Bleyl, Erich Heckel, and Karl Schmidt-Ro...

The sense of a scene. Pieter Bruegel's mastery of composition and community The great Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1526/31 - 1569)was an astoundingly inventive painter and draftsman, who made his art historical mark with beauti...