244 representations, symbols, and manuscript pages of devils and death from Ancient Egypt to 1913. Fascinating graphics depict demons, witches and warlocks, the Danse Macabre, Hell and Damnation, the Art of Dying, more. Works by Durer, Cranach,......

Ideal for use in newsletters, catalogs, bulletins, posters, ads, craft projects and more - no permission or fee ever required! Clear wood engravings present, in extremely lifelike poses, over 1,000 species of animals. One of the most extensive......

Engraved in the 19th century, these flamboyant ornamental designs are based on a wide variety of historical examples, dating back as far as the 1500s and including images by Watteau and Dьrer. Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes....

Stunning treasury of 369 black-and-white, secular stained glass motifs - adapted from actual Victorian, Edwardian, and early-20th-century windows - includes geometric patterns incorporating circles, squares, and triangles; Art Nouveau curves and......

Baroque art and architecture - extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in detail - flourished in seventeenth-century Europe, and through the ages has continued to stir us with its vitality and dynamism, its mood of barely suppressed passion. In the architecture of St. Peter\"s in Rome, St. Paul\"s in London, and Sta....

More than 40 hip and humorous iron-on transfers in the popular steampunk mode offer a distinctive way for the fashion-conscious to decorate their clothes and possessions....

Invaluable source of information for art historians, craftspeople, dealers, collectors, and preservationists includes hundreds of finely detailed illustrations of garden seats, candelabras, moldings, gates, balcony grilles, vases, crosses, funerary ornaments and monuments, finials, doorknobs and many other ornamental features....

The designer of dazzling works of stained glass art, Louis Comfort Tiffany devoted his life to creating windows and other products that glowed with brilliant hues....

Amid the rugged natural beauty of southern Spain\"s Sierra Nevada mountain range stands the Alhambra, one of the world\"s great architectural gems. The grand medieval palace arose in the fourteenth century, and it remains a peerless example of Moorish art that developed in a European setting, apart from direct Byzantine influence....

Enter a mysterious world of fantasy, beauty, and horror with this extraordinary collection of architectural details from centuries-old structures such as the Louvre, Notre Dame, and historic buildings throughout Europe. Hundreds of images depict gargoyles, masks, busts, cartouches, fountains, pedestals, and more....

This volume presents superb royalty-free reproductions of all 50 plates Dore created for a 19th-century edition of Paradise Lost. Among the events depicted: the expulsion of Satan from Heaven, Adam and Eve in Paradise, the nine-day fall of......

This generously illustrated book brings back into print an extremely rare turn-of-the-century catalog depicting over one thousand ornamental sheet metal designs offered to architects, interior designers and home builders by a major American supplier....

An architect and archaeologist born in France, Augustus Charles Pugin fled to England during the Revolution and worked there for 17 years in the London office of the noted architect John Nash....