art

Through a selection of 117 illustrations, explores the depiction of animals by artists throughout the ages.

A comprehensive survey of art, from prehistoric time to the present, showing how the world's artists and great artistic traditions characterize the society, culture, and beliefs of their eras.

Tells the life story of Renaissance sculptor and painter Michelangelo, studying various examples and aspects of his work as well as the major artistic and cultural developments of his time.

Presents the works of the innovative painters who abandoned traditional styles for new techniques and opened the way for greater innovations.

Profiles the lives and works of the greatest artists of the Renaissance and explores the styles, techniques, and trends that defined the artistic creations of the era.

Profiles the lives and works of the most important and innovative Italian Renaissance artists.

Traces the origins, growth, and development of twentieth-century art, discusses its various forms and expressions, and explains how to understand and enjoy modernpaintings, sculpture and architecture.

An illustrated reference guide to the symbolic meanings of figures, objects, settings, and colors that appear in Western painting and sculpture, focusing on biblical subjects from the early Christian period, and the mythological subjects depicted from the Renaissance and beyond.

Discusses the life and work of this nineteenth-century Parisian artist, highlighting fifteen of his paintings.