Product Description: In moist, glossy swirls and chunks of impasto dough, Swiss artist Pia Fries (born 1955) blends painting with collage and silkscreen, often creating dialogues with older printed matter. Here she engages the legacy of the Marchioness Karoline Luise (1723-83), who produced a red pigment from the Krapp plant...read more

Product Description: The foremost Swiss artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ferdinand Hodler (1853–1918) transcended the artistic conventions of his time while creating a vast oeuvre of impressive paintings of landscapes, portraits, historic scenes, and allegorical figures...read more

Product Description: Hailed as the “savior” of Venetian painting by Jacob Burckhardt and declared by Albrecht Dürer to be the foremost painter of the city, Giovanni Bellini is a pivotal figure in the development of Italian Renaissance art. With Giovanni Bellini, renowned art historian Oskar Bätschmann charts the fraught trajectory of Bellini’s career, highlighting the crucial works that established his far-reaching influence in the Renaissance...read more

Product Description: Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Hans Holbein the Younger was the leading artist of the Northern Renaissance, yet his life and work are not nearly as well documented as those of his contemporaries Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo. That omission has been remedied with this acclaimed study by Oskar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener...read more

Product Description: In this highly original and innovative study of Nicolas Poussin, one of seventeenth-century Europe's greatest artists, Oskar Batschmann presents a series of connected studies that offer new ways of interpreting the work and ideas of this brilliant and complex figure...read more

Product Description: When works of art began to be introduced at public exhibits in London and Paris in the second half of the eighteenth century, a new type of artist emerged -- the "exhibition artist". This book investigates the history of the modern artist whose new connections with the exhibition of art in institutional settings profoundly changed the definition of art, the artist's view of himself, the problems of the artist, and the artist's social status...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)