Product Description: Celebrates one of the giants of French Impressionism with luxurious, large-format imagesPierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was one of the founders of Impressionism and a friend of Monet, Pissarro and Sisley. He worked side-by-side with Monet on the banks of the Seine, sharing Monet's concern with light and colour, but landscape painting never displaced his enduring love of figure painting...read more

Product Description: For a comprehensive overview of Italian Painting, look no farther than Florence's Uffizi Gallery, one of the world's oldest and favorite museums, directly linked with the fame and the history of the Medici. With this new book, Taschen brings you a compact reference guide to a fabulous collection, concentrating on 400 of the most spectacular paintings of different schools from the 13th to 18th century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Bronzino was born Agnolo di Cosimo di Mariano on 17th November 1503, in Monticelli, and was the son of a butcher. He was apprenticed to mediocre painter and then to Raffaellino del Garbo in order to study the principles of art, but his greatest progress was made after he was apprenticed to Jacopo Carrucci, known as Pontormo, an association that was to last the rest of Pontormo's life...read more