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Capturing Brilliance: 1000 Portraits of Genius Illuminate the World
With its impressive number of masterpieces, biographies, and commentaries on works, this book presents and analyses different portraits, consequently exposing to the reader, and to any art lover, a reflection of the evolution of society, and above all the upheavals of a genre that, over 300 centuries of painting, has shaped the history of art.
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The Art of the Eternal – In search of the expression of the infinite
An unlimited source of inspiration where artists can search for the expression of the infinite, death remains the object of numerous rich illustrations, as various as they are mysterious. In this work, Victoria Charles analyses how, through the centuries, art has become the reflection of these interrogations linked to mankind’s fate and the hereafter.
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La Vierge Marie dans l’art médiéval jusqu’à l’art moderne précoce
Marie fut souvent représentée avec le Christ enfant, scène religieuse, mettant en avant une mère et son fils, parfois accompagnés d’autres protagonistes. À l’origine distante et formelle, c’est à la fin du Moyen Âge que la relation entre les deux personnages se teinte de tendresse et devient plus humaine.
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Monography – Marc Chagall – Vitebsk -París -New York
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Tomber amoureux (Love – Version française)
Thème intemporel et on ne peut plus incontournable, l'amour ne cesse aujourd'hui encore de fasciner les artistes. Qu'il soit peintre, sculpteur ou architecte, l'artiste l'aborde, l'évoque, l'illustre, y puise son inspiration, comme tout un chacun s'y réfère chaque jour de sa vie. Jamais épuisé, toujours renouvelé, il porte les artistes vers les chefs-d'œuvre de leur vie.
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Falling in Love (Love – English version)
A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors and even architects have drawn inspiration from and illustrated it. Ever new, love has led artists to create the masterworks of their life.
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Art Book List
Back to Art Categories Back to Our Blog THE BOOK series 165 x 210 mm; 6.5 x 8 in.544 pages1000 illustrations in colourHardcover with dust jacket or Soft cover 1000 Monuments of Genius1000 Erotic Works of Genius1000 Sculptures of Genius1000 Buddhas of Genius1000 Paintings of Genius 1000 Drawings of Genius1000 Masterpieces of Decorative Art1000 Portraits of Genius1000 Watercolours of Genius ESSENTIAL series 185 x 230 mm; 7.2 x 9 in.512 pages300 illustrations in colourHardcover with dust jacket or Soft cover The ultimate book on PicassoHokusaiThe ultimate book on RembrandtLeonardo Da Vinci – Artist, Thinker, and Man of ScienceThe ultimate book on RaphaelThe ultimate book on Claude MonetFrida Kahlo & Diego…
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Die Darstellung von Hölle und Himmel in Tod und Jenseits in der Kunst
Seit Grabdenkmäler auf den Gräbern errichtet wurden, hat die Vorstellung vom Tod und vom Leben nach dem Tod einen wichtigen Stellenwert in der Kunstwelt erlangt. In diesem Buch untersucht Victoria Charles, wie die Kunst im Laufe der Jahrhunderte der Spiegel dieser Fragestellungen zum Jenseits geworden ist.
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The depiction of Hell and Heaven in Art of the Eternal
Since the first funerary statues were placed in the first sepulchres, the ideas of death and the afterlife have always held a prominent place at the heart of the art world. In this work, Victoria Charles analyses how, through the centuries, art has become the reflection of these interrogations linked to mankind’s fate and the hereafter.
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Spotlight on Chaïm Soutine
The text below is the excerpt from the book Chaïm Soutine, written by Klaus H. Carl, published by Parkstone International. Chaïm Soutine was born in 1893 (some biographies cite his year of birth as sometime after 1894) in Smilavichy, a village near the city of Minsk in the current state of Belarus, inhabited at that time by less than a thousand residents. Smilavichy lies in the former Principality of Polotsk, an urban area of the East Slavic Dregowitschi and Kriwitzen that had joined forces with other ethnic groups in the 9th century. This area formed the basis of the Old Russian state of Kievan Rus’, and belonged from the 14th-16th century to…
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