Pegasus library

In Arles, Vincent van Gogh was seized by a dramatic passion for painting. Inspired by the lights and colors when he first arrived in this little town hundreds of miles from his native Holland in 1888, in just over a year he painted several hundred works in a frenzy of artistic activity. Van Gogh in Arles is a stirring account that reflects the hectic artistic pace of the artist's time in Arles. It describes how he achieved the pinnacle of artistic perfection, and how a constant, self-inflicted pressure took its toll, causing him to be admitted into a sanatorium.

Examines the life and work of twentieth-century Spanish artist Salvado Dali, most often associated with the Surrelist movement; and includes color reproductions of a sampling of his art.

Examines Pablo Picasso's depictions of children in relation to the rest of his oeuvre, discussing such topics as the child as symbol, the Rose period, primitivism, cubism, and the limits of representation.

A biography of seventeenth-century Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer, looking at his achievements within the context of the town in which he lived, and including reproductions of his works.