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What is Christmas?
The one thing everybody wants to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is A GOOD BOOK. This is also a time when everyone can give gifts to their loved ones.
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The heavenly brush of Fra Angelico: Master of early Renaissance
Secluded within cloister walls, a painter and a monk, and brother of the order of the Dominicans, Angelico devoted his life to religious paintings. Little is known of his early life except that he was born at Vicchio, in the broad fertile valley of the Mugello, not far from Florence, that his name was Guido de Pietro, and that he passed his youth in Florence, probably in some bottegha, for at twenty he was recognised as a painter.
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L’esthétisme : La convergence de l’art et de la beauté
William Hogarth écrit son Analyse de la beauté en 1753, en plein siècle des Lumières. À travers ce texte captivant, il tend à définir la notion de beauté en peinture et affirme qu'elle est liée, en soi, à l'utilisation des lignes serpentines dans les compositions picturales.
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Aestheticism: Where Art and Beauty Converge
William Hogarth wrote his Analysis of Beauty in 1753, during the Age of Enlightenment. Through this captivating text, he tends to define the notion of beauty in painting and states that it is linked, per se, to the use of the serpentine lines in pictorial compositions.
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Art’s Dance with Darkness: Capturing the Essence of the Devils
Artists have grappled with the devil's image, creating works that range from diabolical to symbolic, reflecting the complex relationship between good and evil in human culture and imagination.
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Capturer la brillance : 1000 portraits de génies illuminent le monde
Par son nombre impressionnant de chefs-d’oeuvre, de biographies, de commentaires d’oeuvres, cet ouvrage confronte les différents portraits, exposant dès lors au lecteur, et à tout amateur d’art, le reflet de l’évolution de notre société, mais surtout les bouleversements d’un genre qui, pendant près de trente siècles de peintures, façonna l’histoire de l’art.
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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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La Vierge Marie: Des chefs-d’œuvre de beauté spirituelle, de dévotion et de grâce
La présence de Marie au coeur de la civilisation occidentale possède une longue histoire théologique, particulièrement mouvementée. Les érudits s’accordent sur le fait qu’aux premières heures du christianisme existaient d’autres figures féminines de la spiritualité particulièrement importantes, telles que Sophie, qui était reconnue comme la face féminine du Dieu chrétien.
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The Virgin: Masterpieces of Spiritual Beauty, Devotion and Grace
The presence of Mary within Western civilization has a long theological history of transformation. Scholars concur that during early Christianity there were other paramount feminine faces of spirituality, such as Sophia, who was understood to be the feminine aspect of the complex Christian God.
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L’art européen : Un héritage intemporel qui capture les cœurs et les esprits
Le continent européen réunit sans nul doute les œuvres d’art les plus connues, témoins de l’histoire artistique occidentale. Les capitales culturelles et leurs musées emblématiques renferment tableaux, sculptures ou encore objets d’art créés par les plus grands artistes, représentatifs de la culture européenne.
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