Bøger af Ruth Dangelmaier

The life and work of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, (1571-1610) is more fascinating than that of almost any other artist of his time. He overcame the conventions of the Renaissance. He was not interested in ideal beauty and the exaggeration of reality. His masterful use of light and shadow, as well as the revolutionary use of sacred and profane themes, renewed painting and made him a pioneer of the Baroque.

The Italian Renaissance is one of the most important eras in Western art. Painters including Masaccio, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and Titian brought about a fundamental renewal that influenced all of Europe. More than 50 of the most important artists up to 1600 are presented in this book with more than 270 color illustrations.

Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great English portrait and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. His modern manner of painting based on emotions was criticized by contemporaries such as Joshua Reynolds, but it gave Gainsborough a special position in an art world dominated by academic rigor and earned him the greatest appreciation from English society.

Mit der verschwenderischen Fülle des höfischen Spätbarock, mit epochemachenden Malern wie Bartolomé Esteban Murillo und Francisco de Goya, dem Auftreten von Romantik und Klassizismus in der Epoche der Kunstakademien sowie den ebenso innovativen wie skandalträchtigen Errungenschaften des Modernisme, bietet die spanische Malerei ein eindrucksvolles Panorama an herausragenden Künstlern, Stilen und Themen auf. Mit rund 450 Abbildungen beleuchtet Spanische Malerei (1665-1920) die Entwicklung vom Ausklang des Goldenen Zeitalters im 17. Jahrhundert bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert und schließt so an den ebenfalls opulent bebilderten Band Spanische Malerei (1200-1665) von der Romanik bis zum Barock an.

Umfassende Monografie des großen deutschen Malers