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In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of modern art. With compact, intense dabs of paint and bold new approaches to light and space, he mediated the way from Impressionism to the defining movements of the early 20th century and became, in the words of both Matisse and Picasso, `father of us all.`This fresh artist introduction selects key works from Cezanne`s oeuvre to understand his development, innovation, and crucial influence on modern art. From compositions of fruits and pears to scenes of outdoor bathers, we trace his experimentation with color, perspective, and texture to evoke `a harmony parallel to Nature,` as well as the very p...

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show the influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined by radiant color, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning. With subjects ranging from sensuality and desire to anxiety and despair, all this iridescence is also suffused with feeling. Klimt`s numerous images of women, characterized by curvaceous forms, tender flesh, red lips, and flushed cheeks, were particularly charged with passion, at a time when such frank...

Meet Rembrandt van Rijn, the Dutch master artist whose unique eye for people and situations created some of the most famous portraits and historical, religious, and mythological scenes in the world. In this book, we tour Rembrandts key paintings, etchings, and drawings to uncover the stylistic and technical innovations with which one artist changed the course of Western art.

Discover the scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color that transformed the history of art. This overview of Impressionism explores the artists, subjects, and techniques that first brought the easel out of the studio and shifted artistic attention from history, religion, or portraiture to the evanescent ebb and flow of modernity.

Kampania czehryńska 1678 roku, podobnie zresztą jak cały okres wojny moskiewsko-osmańskiej lat 167–1681, nie została do tej pory opisana w sposób przekonujący. Mimo dość znacznego zainteresowania tym tematem autorów rosyjskich i ukraińskich, ciągle dominują skrótowe opracowania zniekształcające – i to niekiedy w sposób skrajny – zarówno przebieg działań wojennych, jak okoliczności polityczne konfliktu. Również historiografia polska daleka jest od doskonałości w sposobie opisywania wojny moskiewsko-osmańskiej. W miarę dokładne zbadanie obrazu wojny pozwala nam na dokonanie wielu ocen ogólnych, odnoszących się przede wszystkim do sfery wojny (ale dotykających i zagadnień polityki). Ze względu na swoją długotrwałość i charakter, zarówno cała woj...

Zbiór dramatów Wojciecha Tomczyka: Bezkrólewie, Norymberga, Wampir, Marszałek. Nakładem Teologii Politycznej ukaże się już wkrótce zbiór czterech dramatów autorstwa Wojciecha Tomczyka. Wybór tych sztuk nie jest przypadkowy. Są to bowiem najlepsze dzieła napisane przez Tomczyka, w których autor porusza aktualne sprawy współczesnej Polski, odnosząc się niejednokrotnie do niedalekiej przeszłości. Jak pisała wybitna badaczka polskiego dramatu – Krystyna Ruta-Rutkowska – sztuki te posiadają pełną niuansów konstrukcje świata przedstawionego, co sprawia, że są wieloznaczne i można je interpretować na wiele sposobów. Dzieła te doczekały się teatralnych adaptacji, nagrań dla Teatru Telewizji czy też publicznych odczytów.

Seria Skarby Muzyki Dawnego Gdańska to zbiór utworów muzyki dawnej kompozytorów związanych z miastem Gdańskiem.Historia muzyki gdańskiej wiąże się z okresem wspaniałego rozkwitu miasta w XVI - XVIII w., po którym nastąpił czas zapomnienia dla gdańskiej kultury i jej twórców. Dopiero w latach osiemdziesiątych XX w. rozpoczęto w Gdańsku badania, a także opracowanie i wykonywanie dzieł kompozytorów gdańskich. Zespół korzystał początkowo ze źródeł badaczy niemieckich, opracowań własnych oraz prac muzykologów Akademii Muzycznej w Gdańsku. Nagrania wzbogacone o najnowszą rejestrację carrillionów z kościoła św. Katarzyny łączą przeszłość z teraźniejszością, utrwalając duchową spuściznę Gdańska.Album Skarby Muzyki Dawnego Gdańska (XIV XVII w....

Pomimo ogromnego znaczenia wojskowości dla upadku Zachodniego Cestarstwa Rzymskiego, do tej pory, nie powstało żadne całościowe studium tego zagadnienia. Nieniejsza książka stanowi próbę omówienia zagadnień militarnych z rzymskiej i barbarzyńskiej prespektywy, w drugiej połowie IV i w V wieku. Amalizie został poddany potencjał wojskowy Rzymu i jego północnych sąsiadów, zależności polityczne, strategia, taktyka, wojny domowe oraz działania na morzach.Tłumaczenie: Różycki Łukasz

A polymath of the German Renaissance, Albrecht Dürer (1471?1528) was a prolific artist, theorist, and writer whose works explored everything from religion to art theory to philosophy. His vast body of work includes altarpieces, portraits, self-portraits, watercolors, and books, but is most celebrated for its astonishing collection of woodcut prints, which transformed printmaking from an artisan practice into a whole new art form. Dürer?s woodcuts astonish in scale as much as detail. Through works such as Apocalypse and the Triumphal Arch for Emperor Maximilian I, he created dense, meticulous compositions that were much larger, much more finely cut, and far more complex than any earlier woodcut efforts. With an ambitious tonal and dynamic range, he introduced a new level of conceptual, em...

Fascynujące biografie dziesięciu najpotężniejszych kaznodziejów żyjących w okresie od XVIII do XX wieku. Poznaj historie ludzi, którzy stali się bohaterami wiary, prekursorami zmian społecznych, budowniczymi narodów, a ich życie na zawsze zmieniło kształt świata, w którym żyli. Są nimi m.in. John & Charles Wesleyowie, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Francis Asbury, Charles Finney, Peter Cartwright, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Graham, William & Catherine Boothowie. Roberts Liardon przedstawiając każdą biografię wykracza poza suche fakty. Wyciąga kluczowe wnioski i inspiracje z ich życia i płynące z nich przesłanie, dzięki czemu dowiesz się, jak: wypełnić Boże powołanie w swoim życiu, skutecznie zanieść ewangelię całemu światu, być prowadzonym przez Du...

Religion, Renaissance, and Reformation?these three ideologies shaped the world of 16th-century portraitist Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/98?1543), a pivotal figure of the Northern Renaissance, whose skills took him to Switzerland, Belgium, Italy, and England, and garnered patrons and subjects as prestigious as Henry VIII, Thomas More, Anne of Cleves, and Reformation advocate Thomas Cromwell. This book brings together key Holbein paintings to explore his illustrious and international career as well as the courtly drama and radical religious change that informed his work. With rich illustration, we survey the masterful draftsmanship and almost supernatural ability to control details, from the textures of luxurious clothing to the ornament of a room, that secured Holbein?s place as one of th...

The neglected champions of Impressionism It was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work?s title and its loose stylistic rendering of light and motion upon water to deride this new, impressionistic tendency in art. As with many seminal art movements, the critics got their comeuppance. Today, Impressionism is a close contender for the world?s favorite period of painting. With blockbuster exhibitions, record-breaking auction prices, and packed museums, the works once dismissed as unfinished or imprecise are now beloved for their atmospheric evocation of time and place, as well as the stylistic flair of rapid brushstrokes upon canvas. Despite its popularity and a whole...

Tamara de Lempicka (1898?1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set about taking Paris by storm. Her prolific, monumental oeuvre remains one of the most vivid visual documents of 1920s Art Deco. De Lempicka?s style deployed cool colors and tight post-cubist forms into an at once neoclassical and voluptuous figuration. Her subjects are often nude and always sensual, aloof, and powerful. Bedecked in seductive light and textures, they command our attention but typically avert their gaze with an aspect of haughty grandeur. They include both high-society patrons and progressive portraits of emancipated and lesbian women, such as Women Bathing and Portrait of Suzy Soli...

Henri Matisse (1869?1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make art. With what he called une seconde vie, a second life, he embarked on a remarkable collage period, cutting and pasting pieces of colored paper into gouaches découpées of birds, plants, flowers, and the female form. Emphasizing color and contrast, the cut-out technique generated both striking lines and vivid juxtapositions. In works such as Icarus (1943), The Blue Nude (1952), The Snail (1953), and The Sheaf (1953), clean forms and elemental structures power a compositional force that belies the work?s decorative appeal, at once tightly organized and infectious with joie de vivre. As his wo...

The most comprehensive retrospective of Renoir?s work Pierre-Auguste Renoir?s (1841?1919) timelessly charming paintings still reflect our ideals of happiness, love, and beauty. Derived from our large-format volume, the most comprehensive retrospective of his work published to date, this compact edition examines the personal history and motivation behind the legend. Though he began by painting landscapes in the Impressionist style, Renoir found his true affinity in portraits, after which he abandoned the Impressionists altogether. Though often misunderstood, Renoir remains one of history?s most well-loved painters?undoubtedly because his works exude such warmth, tenderness, and good spirit. In an incisive text tracing the artist?s career and stylistic evolution, Gilles Néret shows how Reno...

The essential reference on Salvador Dalí?s painted oeuvre At the age of six, Salvador Dalí (1904?1989) wanted to be a cook. At the age of seven, he wanted to be Napoleon. ?Since then,? he later said, ?my ambition has steadily grown, and my megalomania with it. Now I want only to be Salvador Dalí, I have no greater wish.? Throughout his life, Dalí was out to become Dalí: that is, one of the most significant artists and eccentrics of the 20th century. This weighty volume is the most complete study of Dalí?s painted works ever published. After years of research, Robert Descharnes and Gilles Néret located painted works by the master that had been inaccessible for years?so many, in fact, that almost half the featured illustrations appear in public for the first time in this book. More th...

Painter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was one of the century's greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics-and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was one of the first to apply the insights of Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis to the art of painting, approaching the subconscious with extraordinary sensitivity and imagination.

Lampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter Edouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition from Realism to Impressionism. Manet`s work combined a painterly technique with strikingly modern images of contemporary life, centered on the urban Paris experience. He recorded the city`s parks, bars, and cabarets, often delighting in the frisson of underground or provocative content. The Paris salon rejected his Dejeuner sur l`herbe with its juxtaposition of fully dressed men and a nude woman, while the steady gaze and unabashed pose of the prostitute Olympia, a very modern reworking of Titian`s Venus of Urbino, caused a society scandal. This richly illustrated book introduces Manet`s work an...

The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, aging, and death. The son of a goldsmith, Klimt created surfaces of ornate and jewel-like luminosity which show the influence of both Egyptian and Japanese art. Through paintings, murals, and friezes, his work is defined by radiant color, fluid lines, floral elements, and mosaic-like patterning. With subjects ranging from sensuality and desire to anxiety and despair, all this iridescence is also suffused with feeling. Klimt`s numerous images of women, characterized by curvaceous forms, tender flesh, red lips, and flushed cheeks, were particularly charged with passion, at a time when such frank...

A revolution in painting The Baroque genius who electrified art history Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571 1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, precise in technique, a creative master, and a man on the run. Though famed for his dramatic use of color, light, and shadow, it was above all Caravaggio`s boundary-breaking naturalism which scorched his name into the annals of art history. From the dirtied soles of feet to the sexualised languor of bare flesh, the artist allowed even sacred and biblical scenes to unfold with a startling, often visceral humanity. This vivid pictorial world was accompanied by an equally intense personal biography, scored by gambling, debt...