Provides a close-up look at the life and work of nineteenth-century French artist Gustave Moreau, whose decorative style, mystical qualities, and exquisite rendering inspired a generation of Symbolist painters and writers. Original.

Product Description: Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) was one of the most influential and idiosyncratic painters of the nineteenth century. He developed a reputation as an artistic hermit, committed to a highly personal vision of painting that combined myth, mysticism, history, and a fascination with the bizarre and exotic...read more