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A History of Art for Beginners and Students
€36.00This book is available for free download in a number of formats – including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader.
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A Text-Book of the History of Architecture
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An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Taste, and of the Origin of our Ideas of Beauty, etc.
€29.50The cause of some of the ambiguities in her discussion may perhaps be traced to a rather careless use of terms. At one time “instinct” or “impulsion,” the moral force driving man toward perfection, is a potentiality developed by cultivation
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Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art
€22.00Two of his grandest and most celebrated works are the Last Supper in the Escurial, and Christ crowned with Thorns at Milan. It is said that the works of Titian, to be appreciated, should be seen at Venice or Madrid, as many claimed to be genuine elsewhere are of very doubtful authenticity. He painted many of his best
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Art
€40.00A good critic may be able to make me see in a picture that had left me cold things that I had overlooked, till at last, receiving the aesthetic emotion, I recognise it as a work of art. To be continually
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Art-Lovers guide to the Exposition
€19.00Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery
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Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects
€30.00This book is available for free download in a number of formats – including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader.
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Cathedrals of Spain
€39.75Its building extended over long periods marked by a gain in confidence and skill and a development of architectural style, so that in its stones we may read a most interesting story of different epochs
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Dürer Artist-Biographies
€39.50Albert Dürer was the third child of Albert the Elder and Barbara Hallerin, and was born on the morning of the 21st of May, 1471. The house in which the Dürers then lived was a part of the great pile of buildings owned and in part occupied
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Essays on Art
€32.99in his “Crucifixion,” it is Tintoret himself who pays homage, and we forget the master in the theme. We may say of Rubens’s art, in a new sense, “C’est mag
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Great Artists, Vol 1.
€32.50The Pope received the young artist cordially and at once gave him the vast commission of painting in fresco three large rooms, or stanze, of the Vatican. In addition, he was to decorate the gallery, or corridor, cal
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Language of Flowers
€36.99Laburnum Forsaken. Pensive Beauty.
Lady’s Slipper Capricious Beauty. Win me and wear me.
Lagerstræmia, Indian Eloquence.
Lantana Rigour.
Larch Audacity. Boldness.
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Leonardo da Vinci A Psychosexual Study of an Infantile Reminiscence
€31.00This book is available for free download in a number of formats – including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. You can also read the full text online using our ereader.
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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects
€32.99TO THE MOST ILLUSTRIOUS AND MOST EXCELLENT SIGNOR COSIMO DE’ MEDICI, DUKE OF FLORENCE AND SIENA
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Michelangelo
€31.25eas of Savonarola. The impassive Virgin with the robust child–the bas-relief in bronze of the Casa Buonarroti–is far more a school piece by a pupil of Donatello than a religious work. What we know of the little wooden crucifix, carved in 1494 for the prior of the Convent of S. Spirito,
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Six Centuries of Painting
€31.99Unfortunately the very first example cited pulls us up short alongside the official catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery (where the picture was placed in 1841), in which it is catalogued (No. 20)
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The Art of Interior Decoration
€20.00PLATE XV Venetian Glass, Antique and Modern.
PLATE XVI Corner of a Room in a Small Empire Suite.
PLATE XVII An Example of Perfect Balance and Beauty in Mantel Arrangement.
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The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon
€19.00In the beginning nothing whatever existed except APSÛ, which may be described as a boundless, confused and disordered mass of watery matter; how it came into being is unknown. Out of this mass there were
