Серия «Mega Square» 164 книги

Après son apparition au VIIe siècle, l\'art de la porcelaine en Chine est rapidement devenu un symbole important de la royauté et de la haute société. Ce livre offre une large gamme d\'objets, ...

Le Caravage (Michelangelo Merisi) (Caravaggio, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610) Après avoir séjourné à Milan durant son apprentissage, Michelangelo Merisi arriva à Rome en 1592. Là, il commença à peindre ...

Pieter Bruegel, l\'Ancien (près de Breda, 1525 – Bruxelles, 1569) Pieter Bruegel fut le premier membre important d\'une famille d\'artistes, actifs durant quatre générations. D\'abord ...

Si l’animal fut tour à tour représenté par les peintres pour sa fonction symbolique, cathartique ou allégorique, il fut aussi et surtout, et ce dès les peintures rupestres, peint pour lui-même, en ...

L’ambitieux projet d’Audubon de peindre tous les oiseaux d’Amérique du Nord résulta en un travail si important qu’il fut une des grandes étapes de l’ornithologie. Il n’identifia pas seulement des ...

L\'Art nouveau désigne un style décoratif et architectural qui se développe dans les années 1880-1890 en Occident. Né en réaction contre les dérives de l\'industrialisation et le vide cré...

Les anges, symboles mystiques de la religion et du mythe, sont une source d\'inspiration artistique depuis des siècles. Ce livre contient des anges dessinés par les plus grands artistes, ...

Inspired by Monet’s work at a young age, Paul Signac (1863-1935) was a friend and disciple of Georges Seurat who combined the scientific precision of pointillism with the vivid colors and emotional ...

During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas, often rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. Over centuries in religious ...

Vincent van Gogh’s life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, ...

A jeweler with an established reputation through the world, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the spearhead of the Art Nouveau movement in the United States. At a time and in a country in perpetual growth, ...

Cézanne transformed a teacup into something alive, raising still-life to the point that it ceased to be inanimate. Wassily Kandinsky said about the French artist: “He painted these things as human ...

Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which ...

Mega Square Sculpture spans over 23,000 years and over 120 examples of the most beautiful sculptures in the world: from prehistoric art and Egyptian statues to the works of Michelangelo, Henry Moore ...

Sargent was born in Florence, in 1856, the son of cultivated parents. When Sargent entered the school of Carolus-Duran he attained much more than the average pupils. His father was a retired ...

Mega Square Roses presents the large number of different species of this unique flower, which is charged with so many feelings and imbued with powerful cultural significance. Because of the rose’s ...

Encounter one of history’s greatest civilisations through miniatures. In Persian Miniatures, the story of the magnificent Persian Empire is told by way of a small but vibrant artistic tradition. The ...

Just as there is a fundamental difference in the use of the words “naked” and “nude”, the unclothed body can evoke a feeling of delight or shame, serving as a symbol of contradictory concepts – beauty ...

Reflecting their owner’s taste and serving as an impressive exhibition space for visitors, cabinets of curiosities were a place of interest in the houses of the wealthy in the 16th an 17th centuries ...

Claude Gellée, called Claude Lorrain was neither a great man nor a lofty spirit like Poussin. His genius cannot, however, be denied and he was, like Poussin, a profoundly original inventor within ...

What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society?

Those who have had the chance to hold a medieval manuscript in their hands cannot fail to have been impressed by the feeling of being in touch with a long-passed epoch. Back when a book was a true ...

Since The Turkish Baths (1863) by the French painter Ingres, the Far Eastern woman has, to many, been a symbol of out of reach or forbidden pleasures. Seafaring explorers, military adventurers and ...

Flowers are the centerpiece in the majority of pictorial still-lifes. By painting their colours and forms, artists from Brueghel to O’Keeffe have created symbols for both life and mortality. Van Gogh’...

Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, ...