Spiegel geheimer Wünsche: Stilleben

Seit der Antike üben Stillleben eine bis heute ungebrochene Faszination auf Künstler wie Betrachter aus. Etwa 120, zum Teil erstmals gezeigte Werke vom Barock bis in die Gegenwart dokumentieren eindrucksvoll die außergewöhnlichen sinnlichen Qualitäten und ...

Rubell: Not Afraid

Collectors since 1967, the Rubell family (now based in Miami, Florida) today owns some 6,000 works of art, from paintings to sculptures, photography, videos, and installations, by the most significant artists working from the 1970s to the present. The colle...

The Mirror and the Mask

Focusing on avant-garde European paintings and sculpture from the 1890s to the 1980s, "The Mirror and the Mask" shows the fascinating transformations that portraiture underwent as a flourishing, international phenomenon of the age. Through a spectacular pan...

WILLIAMSON: Gothic Sculpture 1140-1300

Paul Williamson

This beautiful and authoritative book is the first to examine the development of Gothic sculpture throughout Europe. It discusses not only the most famous monuments -- such as the cathedrals of Chartres, Amiens, and Reims, Westminster Abbey, and the Siena D...

Busch-Reisinger Museum: Harvard University Art Museums

Founded in 1901 as the Germanic Museum through the efforts of Kuno Francke, professor of German literature at Harvard, the Busch-Reisinger Museum developed into one of the leading collections of modern art from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and related cul...

In the Forest of Fontainebleau

Kimberly U A Jones

This is the first English-language publication to examine the significance of the region to the plein-air tradition in France. The book highlights four pivotal figures in the evolution of landscape painting: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, J...