Product Description: At the very heart of cities and villages, churches, cathedrals and basilicas have shaped the landscape in Europe to a great extent. Their architecture bears witness to the skills of craftsmen and the mystic fervor that led to their building...read more

Product Description: The Romanesque was the first epoch of medieval art that encompassed all of Europe. Its origins hearken back to characteristic elements of Roman construction - reflected in the name of the period - and in the course of the High Middle Ages developed into the embodiment of Christian sacred art...read more

Product Description: How did the monks, nuns, and hermits live? What rules did they agree to obey? To what extent were they able to uphold those ideals in reality? What was the relationship between the monasteries and worldly authorities? And what was the source of the power that the religious orders were able to exercise in political affairs at various times? Are the remarkable cultural accomplishments of the cloisters simply the fruits of great self-discipline, or did they also result from a privileged way of life? Who were the men and women who entered monasteries? Knowledgeable responses to these and many other questions, in conjunction with opulent illustrations, make this an impressive volume that is destined to become a standard on the subject...read more

Product Description: At the mention of Vienna, many visitors think of Sachertorte, romantic open carriage trips and an evening in one of local wine taverns. But the old imperial city has much more to offer - Vienna presents a comprehensive, richly illustrated view of the art treasures to be found in the Danube metropolis...read more

Product Description: 200 years of Baroque art and architecture are presented in striking images and thought-provoking text -- capturing the theatrical pathos, illusionistic devices, and interplay of different styles that made 17th-century and 18th-century European culture extravagant, and showy...read more

La Bourgogne - the name evokes art of international status, names of famous wines, and culinary pleasures. The reader learns about all the major monuments of which there are many: cathedrals and cloisters, castles and vineyards. We are taken by the hand and led step by step throught the landscape and regional uniqueness of the four Burgundy departements.

Product Description: The Gothic period is one of the first epochs in art history from which artworks of all kinds have been preserved: from cathedrals, castles, and palaces to masterful paintings and the most filigree works of goldsmiths, This book displays the breadth and richness of a unique craftsmanship...read more

Product Description: "After the global hit Ars Sacra, Rolf Toman and histeam embark on a journey once more. The famousFrench cathedrals of Chartres, Reims and Laon are notthe only highlights of this volume. Outstanding treasuresof medieval imagery such as religious panel paintings,Madonna statues, illumination and goldsmith art;courtly culture also gets attention...read more

Presents an overview of the development of Neo-classicist and Romantic art in Europe and North America. This work discusses European painting between two revolutions: the development of painting in France from Jacques Louis David through to Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and his antipode, Eugene Delacroix.

Product Description: Neoclassicism, as a return to the forms and ideals of ancient art and Romanticism as an intellectual attitude, are no longer seen as mutually exclusive alternatives. Looking specifically to Europe, the United States, and Russia, the authors of The Essence of Culture: Neoclassicism and Romanticism have selected the notion of subjectivism as the common denominator that links the visual arts and architecture between the Rococo and Realism periods...read more

Product Description: The Italian Renaissance is among the most glamorous epochs of European art. Art historians as well as a wide public are fascinated by three centuries of exceptionally prolific artistic creation that produced works of international fame such as Michelangelo’s frescos in the Sistine Chapel...read more

Product Description: Provence carries the reader off on a fascinating journey from the ancient sites in Orange to the university town of Aix-en-Provence, from the metropolis of Marseille to the spectacular Gorges du Verdon. In each chapter of this book there is an overview of the area with a street map, many large color pictures, and texts that describe the history, geography, art, culture, and lifestyle of the area...read more

Product Description: Architecture, Sculpture and Painting of the most important Eras in European Art History

Product Description: The origins of garden culture: from Paradise to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, from the ancient hortulus to the medieval cloister garden. Extensive observations of harmonic garden designs in the Renaissance spirit and monumental baroque gardens...read more

Product Description: These substantial volumes on art periods vividly portray the most important achievements from the areas of European architecture, sculpture, and painting. The impressive photographs of works from all visual arts movements are at the center of these richly illustrated volumes...read more

Presents the history of Gothic architecture from its origins and blossoming in 12th-century France through its dissemination in all of Europe. This work also offers a discussion of the most diverse art forms; and covers chapters that are devoted to the Papal Palace of Avignon and the splendour of Gothic glass painting.

Includes chronological depiction of the fine arts from their origins in Rome through the late baroque and rococo. This work offers explanation of the socio-political background: the Counter-Reformation, the development of Protestantism, absolutism, and the French Revolution.