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Mäktigt reser sig Skoklosters slott över det uppländska landskapet. Ingen som är i dess närhet kan undgå den demonstration av makt och rikedom som fältherren greve Carl Gustaf Wrangel här iscensatte under det århundrade Sverige blev stormakt. Skok...

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An illustrated exploration of the artist, Rembrandt van Rijn, his life and context, with a gallery of 300 of his finest works. This is a fascinating biography that explores his early years, his personal life and the historical context of the early...

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1592 kom den 21-årige Michelangelo Merisi från Caravaggio, "en kraftig yngling med tunt svart skägg, kraftiga ögonbryn och mörka ögon", till Rom med ambitionen att bli stadens främste målare. Beskrivningen stämmer bra med de många självp...

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PUBLISHED TO ACCOMPANY THE ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXHIBITION AT THE RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM, THIS IS THE FIRST MAJOR STUDY ON VERMEER'S LIFE AND WORK FOR MANY YEARS. ---------- 'Proust was once so excited to see a Vermeer show that he collaps...

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Named retrospectively, the Golden Age was a period when the new Dutch Republic had become the most prosperous nation in Europe, leading in trade, science and art. From 1600 for almost a century, more than four million paintings were produced there...

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Caravaggio, or more accurately Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (15711610), was a legend even in his own lifetime. Notorious bad boy of Italian painting, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial: Violent in temper, precise in technique...

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Despite numbering at just 35, his works have prompted a New York Times best seller; a film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth; record visitor numbers at art institutions from Amsterdam to Washington, DC; and special crowd-control measures...

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Peter Paul Rubens was one of the most productive and exciting painters of his time, noted for his expressive, emotive and sensual paintings which are now instantly recognizable. Indeed, his voluptuous female figures have given rise to the word &ap...

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Examined through the lens of cutting-edge scholarship, Artemisia Gentileschi clears a pathway for non-specialist audiences to appreciate the artist's pictorial intelligence, as well as her achievement of a remarkably lucrative and high-profile car...

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Fram till nu har ytterst lite publicerats om Erik Nilsson Wallin - 1700-talets store målare från Nilsvallen vid Sveg i Härjedalen. I många år har författaren Bosse Yman sökt efter ledtrådar till Erik Wallins liv. Till 250-årsminnet av Wallins död ...

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Följ med på en spännande inblick i ett arkitektoniskt och unikt mästerverk, Nicodemus Tessin den yngres hem på Slottsbacken mitt i Stockholms hjärta. Palatsets fasad är inspirerad av italienska palats med en inredning i fransk barock av högsta kla...

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Today Michelangelo's painting and sculpture is seen most often in museums, while his archi-tectural designs have been left incomplete or modified by others so that some are barely recognizable. But his art was made to be viewed in churches, homes ...

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Peter Paul Rubens was the most inventive and prolific northern European artist of his age. This book discusses his life and work in relation to three interrelated themes: spirit, ingenuity and genius. It argues that Rubens and his reception were p...

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To his contemporaries in late 16th-century Venice, El Greco (15411614) was a contrary fellow, an innate artist blessed with extraordinary talent, but stubborn in the pursuit of his own path. Throughout his career, as he progressed from Crete to Ve...

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Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artists of the Baroque age. In Artemisia Gentileschi, critic and historian Jonathan Jones discovers how Artemisia overcame a turbulent past to become one of the foremost painters of her day. As a young...

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This lavishly illustrated volume offers a fascinating glimpse into Ruben's artistic process. The six glorious scenes that make up the Triumph of the Eucharist series by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) are highlights of the Museo Nacional del Pr...

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A Companion to Renaissance and Baroque Art provides a diverse, fresh collection of accessible, comprehensive essays addressing key issues for European art produced between 1300 and 1700, a period that might be termed the beginning of modern histor...

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400 years after the death of Caravaggio, some of the worlds most illustrious art historians comment on an extraordinary collection of 25 of his works. How is it possible that an artist who lived over four centuries ago is still seen today as an ic...

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A handsomely illustrated monograph that examines in depth Rubenss two greatest landscape paintings: A View of Het Steen in the Early Morning and The Rainbow Landscape. Painted as pendants, the pair of paintings have been in London since 1803. This...

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We may never know what the Mona Lisa is really smiling about, but we do know that there's much more to the masterpieces of Renaissance art than the beauty that meets the eye. There are layers of significance hidden below the surface of the wo...

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Henri Rousseau (18441910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseaus bright, bold paintings of jungles and exotic flora and fauna were dismissed...

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Discover the story of Adelaide Labille-Guiard-a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France-in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer. Summer in Paris, 1783. The Louvre steps, too hot and no bree...

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An in-depth examination of the crucial role that Amsterdam played in Rembrandts evolution as an artist Around the age of 25, Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669) moved from his hometown of Leiden to Amsterdam, which was the commercial capital of northern...

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Skokloster Castle - A Unique Historical Site Skokloster Castle dominates the surrounding landscape in Uppland province. It is impossible to escape the display of power and affluence that Count Carl Gustaf Wrangel put on here during Sweden's Age of...

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2019, 450 years after the Old Master's death, will be celebrated as the Year of Bruegel, culminating in the exhibition 'The Age of Bruegel' at The Royal Museum of Fine Arts (KMSKA), Antwerp. In the run up to the numerous exhibitions and festivitie...

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This is the first book to concentrate on Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Halss highly innovative approach to male portraiture. Frans Hals is one of the greatest portrait painters of all time and, together with Rembrandt, is one of the most eminent ...

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George IV was arguably the most magnificent of the British monarchs. Visual display played an important role in his public image, an image that he worked hard to control. Through the magnificent interiors of his houses and palaces in London and Br...

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Belonging to the wider circle of Calvinist exiles from Catholic Flanders working in the Saint-Germain des-Prs area of Paris, Moillon was the sole female practitioner of a group that included Sbastien Stosskopf, Jacques Linard, and Lubin Baugin. Lo...

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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see." Edgar Degas Covering every era and over 650 artists, this comprehensive, illustrated guide offers an accessible yet expansive view of art history, featuring everything from iconic ...

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