Art
- Art and Architecture Through History
- Essays on Art and Aesthetics
- Artistic Lives: Biographies of Masters
Essays on Art
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspect…
Lectures On Painting Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy
This 1883 book contains chapters on ancient costumes, Byzantine and Romanesque art, David and his school, modern schools of Europe, drawing,…
Six Ways To Vermeer
Six Ways to Vermeer is a montage documentary about one of the greatest of the Dutch Masters, Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) of Delft. This pro…
Vincent Van Gogh And Paul Gauguin
Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin were two of the greatest painters of their age. The nine stormy weeks they spent working together in Arles…
The Greek View of Life
“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
The Stones of Venice
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Volume 9 of the lives of some eminent painters, sculptors and architects in history. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects offers a captivating glimpse into the lives and works of the great masters of t…
A Color Notation
A Color Notation is a method developed by A. H. Munsell in order to produce a unified system of color classification. The system identifies …
Salt Mines and Castles
"From May 1945 until February 1946, I served as a Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Officer in Germany. During the first four months of…
Lectures on Landscape
Lectures on Landscape presents a thought-provoking exploration of landscape painting through the eyes of John Ruskin, a prominent artist and…
Tutankhamen
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest …
The Mentor
The Mentor Association was established to increase interest and knowledge among the public in the areas of art, literature, science, nature,…
Dress Design
Dress Design by Talbot Hughes offers a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of fashion in Western Europe, tracing its development from…
Dissertation on Oriental Gardening
A little essay on the Chinese style of gardening, as opposed to the continental style, which the author finds too formal with too many strai…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
The Gentle Art of Faking
IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary …
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de'…
Mount Rushmore National Memorial
This publication of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial Society of the Black Hills presents the history and description of one of the most …