Welcome visitor you can login or create an account.

Fine arts: treatments & subjects

A compelling and vivid narrative history of one of the founding civilizations of the modern world, the Byzantine empire, evocatively told through the lives of its 92 emperors. The Byzantine empire was one of the most successful states of the Middle..
32.35£
Brand: Gestalten
The empire of scent: explore the realm of perfumes, smells, and aromatic incense to reveal the enduring allure of fragrance. Scents are linked with our most cherished memories-life without the ability to smell is unimaginable. Dive deep into the ess..
49.32£
This abundantly illustrated book is an illuminating exploration of the impact of medieval imagery on three hundred years of visual culture.  From the soaring castles of Sleeping Beauty to the bloody battles of Game of Thrones, from Middle-earth in T..
29.16£
The Florilegium Society at the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney was formed in 2005 as a unique melding of art, history, and botany. It sought to represent the living collection of the Gardens through paintings, and artists around the world have contribu..
45.88£
Premium High-Quality pictures with a compendium of delightful quotations about Horses.From tiny ponies to heavy draft horses and speedy thoroughbreds, equines are among the most influential animals in human history.This book is a celebration of The ..
32.03£
A visually enigmatic explosion of fun!The Hungriest Monkey is an imaginative re-invention on Terence Mckenna's famous Stoned Ape Theory.The Hungriest Monkey encounters a cow, some poo and a whole lot of EVOLUTION in this epic little book full of dee..
14.17£
An enticing history of food and drink in Western art and cultureEating and drinking can be aesthetic experiences as well as sensory ones. The Hungry Eye takes readers from antiquity to the Renaissance to explore the central role of food and drink in..
51.44£
"A necessary addition to the library of any serious student."—The New York Times Sunday Book ReviewAlmost every Japanese garden is influenced by the tea garden. Here, Marc Peter Keane describes the history, design, and aesthetics of tea gardens, fro..
53.70£
This handsome box set provides hours of enlightening entertainment for those curious about farm life, the natural world, and food. Best-selling author and illustrator Julia Rothman presents Farm Anatomy, Nature Anatomy, and Food Anatomy in a special..
92.30£
 'This is botanical illustration at the highest level.' - The Artist Christabel King is the foremost botanical artist at the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, world leaders in the study and preservation of plant species. Here she shares her passion fo..
20.17£
The Landscape Painter's Workbook is the definitive hands-on guide to the time-honored techniques and essential elements of landscape painting. Written by celebrated landscape artist, instructor, and author Mitchell Albala, this richly informative an..
25.93£
Among the earliest written texts on the history and theory of Netherlandish art, these two key writings are now available together in an English translation. Dominicus Lampsonius's The Life of Lambert Lombard (1565) is the earliest published biogra..
48.94£ 51.17£
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo, it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in t..
14.37£
The Lobkowicz Collections, housed in Prague, rank among the oldest and largest privately owned collections of art, music and archival documents in Central Europe. The Music Archive, comprising some 5,000 items, was assembled over three centuries by ..
15.17£
The Lost Spells is a book authored by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris. They are the team that created the best selling The Lost Words published by Penguin Random House. This 1000 piece jigsaw takes as its source, the glossary sect..
31.86£
There's no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Everywhere is the middle of somewhere for some living being. That was Suzanne Stryk's mantra as she journeyed through her home state on a mission inspired by the reflective, encyclopedic sensibility of..
22.73£
Brand: Orion
Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, contin..
14.89£
The talented printmaker and Royal Academician Chris Orr turns his humorous gaze on some of the most famous - and fabulous - artists of the past. With over 30 new works, accompanied by Orr's captions, artists from Edward Hopper to Pablo Picasso find ..
24.16£
A beautifully illustrated exploration of Edward Lear's little-known career as a natural-history artist-now in a new expanded paperback editionEdward Lear (1812-1888) is best known today for his witty limericks and endearing nonsense verse. But the c..
28.91£
Let the spooky citizens of Halloween Town guide your tarot practice with this sumptuously illustrated tarot deck inspired by Tim Burton's classic stop motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas. This gift set includes a tarot altar cloth, a guided n..
45.25£ 46.57£
Celebrate your favorite songs, performances, and music video moments with this official Britney Spears coloring book. From "...Baby One More Time" to the Las Vegas stage, there's no shortage of iconic Britney Spears moments. Now, color your way thro..
18.36£
Kabul was once famous as a city of blossoming gardens. What once was, can one day become again, wrote the political scientist Ekkehart Krippendorff. In line with this motto, some twenty artists from Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Turkey, the United ..
39.05£
Platinum Jubilee edition'Full of gems … Angela Kelly is a jewel in the crown'Daily Telegraph'Entertaining and beautifully illustrated'The Sunday Times'For real intel, [The Crown] can't come close to The Other Side of the Coin by Angela Kelly'The New..
31.36£
"There are very few books about photography that achieve the status of essential reference, maybe even seminal. Well, I believe this is one of them. Enjoy it!" - Gilles Decamps, The Eye of Photography "...the book itself will surely go down as one o..
39.91£
Fine, arts:, treatments, subjects, Art, and, Design, SE.md
×
×
×
×
×
×
×