Artist Monographs
8 total works
Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great English portrait and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. His modern manner of painting based on emotions was criticized by contemporaries such as Joshua Reynolds, but it gave Gainsborough a special position in an art world dominated by academic rigor and earned him the greatest appreciation from English society.
Already revered by his admirers during his lifetime as "Il Divino" (the Divine), Michelangelo Buonarroti embodies the ideal artist of the Renaissance in Italy. No sculptor or painter was able to depict man more impressively in stone and colour; his grandiose masterpieces are still world-famous today.
The few surviving works by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch are among the most famous icons in art history. Unique hidden-book-like works of horror, his paintings are populated by monsters and devils, hybrids, tree and bird people, toads, owls, dragons, and unicorns. The entire cosmos of the ingenious fantasist unfolds here in a multitude of illustrations and details.
More than 250 works by Albrecht Durer are reproduced here to give the reader a comprehensive survey of the life and work of this unique and universal genius in genres ranging from prints and drawings to watercolors and oil paintings.
Sandro Botticelli (1444/45-1510) numbers among the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance. He attracted commissions from many of the most powerful figures of the Italian city states, above all the Medici family, creating works of superlative quality to reflect the self-image held by the elite of his time--and which still today characterize our concepts of beauty and refinement.
The life and work of Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, (1571-1610) is more fascinating than that of almost any other artist of his time. He overcame the conventions of the Renaissance. He was not interested in ideal beauty and the exaggeration of reality. His masterful use of light and shadow, as well as the revolutionary use of sacred and profane themes, renewed painting and made him a pioneer of the Baroque.
Tintoretto shaped the artistic appearance of his hometown, Venice, like no other Renaissance artist. His works remain foundational for the European aesthetic. More than 180 pieces offer a fascinating insight into this artist's genius.