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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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Death in Art: A Profound Exploration of the Inevitable
Artists across time have grappled with the concept of death, producing works that range from poignant reflections on the transience of life to powerful symbols of rebirth and transformation.
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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 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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European Art: A Timeless Legacy Capturing Hearts and Minds
The European continent gathers together, without a doubt, the most famous works of art, evidence of the history of Western art. The cultural capitals and their emblematic museums contain paintings, sculptures, or rather works of art, devised by the great artists, representative of European culture.
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The Origin of the World – The sexual tension
There are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.
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1000 Paintings of Genius
Art Across Time: From the Middle Ages to the Digital Age of Instagram
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The Virgin Mary from Early Medieval to Early Modern Art
This religious scene showcases a mother and her son, sometimes accompanied by other protagonists. Originally distant and formal, the relationship between the two figures was expressed with tendernessat the end of the Middle Ages and became more human.
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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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