Product Description: Mécène fastueux, fils de roi, Jean de France, duc de Berry, à l’égal de son frère Charles V et de ses frères les ducs d’Anjou et de Bourgogne, collectionnera et fera réaliser, tout au long de sa vie, un très grand nombre d’œuvres d’art, connues grâce à plusieurs inventaires toujours conservés aujourd’hui...read more

Product Description: At the turn of the fifteenth century, private devotionals became a speciality of the renowned Ghent-Bruges illuminators. Wealthy patrons who commissioned work from these artists often spared no expense in the presentation of their personal prayer books, or 'books of hours', from detailed decoration to luxurious bindings and embroidery...read more

Product Description: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610) was an Italian artist active in Rome, Naples, Malta, and Sicily. His paintings, which combine a realistic observation of the human state, both physical and emotional, with a dramatic use of lighting, had a formative influence on Baroque painting...read more

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Product Description: With more than 10 million visitors each year, the Louvre is the world's most visited museum. This book will guide you to this gigantic museum, from the Ancient art to masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer or Ingres.

Product Description: Each volume of the ART & ARCHITECTURE series is opulently illustrated. The highly readable texts give you concentrated information on accessing well and lesser known sites in the world of art. An image of every piece of art that is described is included, allowing readers to easily recognize the original on site...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive, two volume work presents the extraordinary panorama of Italian painting spanning the period from 1300 to 1610, including all the great masters and their most famous works.

Product Description: The volumes in this bibliophile series provide unique portraits of European art history. Readers gain fascinating insights into the artists' biographies and their styles: Durer and his famous portraits and altarpieces, the vivid farm scenes of Pieter Bruegel, the great painters of the Italian Renaissance, the symphonies in color of Titian, the mysterious chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio, the rococo worlds of Antoine Watteau, and the great historical paintings created by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...read more

Product Description: The Bedford Hours is considered by many to be the most sumptuous Book of Hours ever created by an illuminator’s hand—as well as one of the greatest treasures possessed by the British Library. It once belonged to John, Duke of Bedford, who was the younger brother of King Henry V and regent of France from 1422 until his death in 1435...read more

Product Description: Travel Guide and Art Guide in one. Each volume of the Art & Architecture series is opulently illustrated.

Product Description: The volumes in this bibliophile series provide unique portraits of European art history. Readers gain fascinating insights into the artists' biographies and their styles: Durer and his famous portraits and altarpieces, the vivid farm scenes of Pieter Bruegel, the great painters of the Italian Renaissance, the symphonies in color of Titian, the mysterious chiaroscuro paintings of Caravaggio, the rococo worlds of Antoine Watteau, and the great historical paintings created by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...read more