Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century....

From politics to religion, psychology to nuclear physics, learn how Dali\"s work embraces nearly every major historic development of the twentieth century....

Monet\"s dazzling depictions of flowers, sunsets, fields, and oceans, in which line and shape are suggested through pure colour, changed the way we perceive our natural surroundings. His numerous series, in which he depicts the same object at varying times of the day and in different seasons, pushed the limits of representational art....

Although Bosch\"s known works amount to no more than two dozen paintings and a handful of drawings, the artist had an enormous impact on religious imagery during his lifetime and for centuries afterward. His enigmatic and mind-bending depictions of humans, animals, and nature undoubtedly influenced the surrealist movement of the 20th century....

Written by scholars for a general audience, each title in the \"Masters of Art\" series has illustrations accompanied by commentaries discussing each individual work....

Albrecht Durer was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His high-quality woodcuts established his reputation and influence across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since....

Georges Seurat is not easy to know, either as an artist or as a personality. Yet, to know little or nothing of his life can hardly detract from our appreciation or understanding of his highly deliberate painting, for his is a self-sufficient art, which is to be understood primarily in terms of its formal and plastic qualities....

The Florentine painter Botticelli personifies the Golden Age of the early Renaissance. Best known for The Birth of Venus and Primavera, Botticelli painted with an expressive poeticism that eschewed formal realism. He used line and colour to gorgeous......

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Vermeer makes the world\'s greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. A 17th-century Dutch painter who lived his entire life in Delft, Vermeer is renowned for his masterly use of light. Only a very small number of Vermeer\'s paintings are known to exist....

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Dürer makes the world\"s greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. This monograph explores Dürer\"s entire life and oeuvre by focusing on the most......

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Caravaggio makes the world\"s greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation. This monograph explores Caravaggio\"s entire life and career by focusing on the most important......