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In art history, the term `Romanesque art' distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.

Romanesque Art

To speak about art is to evoke the hand of the creator who produced the work. It is to confer to its gestures the importance of thoughts and to explore their point of convergence on the canvas or the stone. With this text, Henri Focillon delivers one of the most beautiful odes to the hand and, simultaneously, to the talent of artists, studying Hokusai, Cézanne, and even Rodin. What do artists such as Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, and Hokusai have in common? A virtuosity of the hand, replies Henri Focillon. The viewer often forgets that behind the works, it is first and foremost a hand and its fingers which guide the paintbrush, the pen, or the stylus. Focillon's text recalls the importance of this part of the body, in which the artist's talent comes to life. Within his text, he grants the hand the recognition that it deserves.

In Praise of Hands

A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a "total art", without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period. Turning away from an established art and immersing themselves in organic, voluptuous, and decorative shapes, these artists opened themselves to an evocative, erotic aesthetic that blatantly offended the bourgeoisie of the time.

Painting, sculpture, and architecture are addressed by the authors and highlight the diversity and richness of a movement whose motto proclaimed "for each time its art, for each art its liberty" - a declaration to the innovation and originality of this revolutionary art movement.

The Viennese Secession

Die Bruegels  allen voran Pieter der Ältere, zusammen mit seinen Shnen Pieter (Hllenbruegel) und Jan (Samt- oder Blumenbruegel)  sind die bedeutendste flämische Malerfamilie. Ihre Werke sind Zeugnisse des unschätzbaren Beitrags, den diese Familie in der Entwicklung der Malerei des nrdlichen Europa geleistet hat. Sie entzogen sich bewusst dem Einfluss des italienischen Manierismus und schufen damit einen ganz eigenen, unabhängigen und tief im originellen Charakter der Flamen verwurzelten Stil. In teils volkstümlichen, teils allegorischen Szenen schildern Pieter Bruegel und seine Nachfolger auf unnachahmliche Weise den Alltag der bäuerlichen und der städtischen Bevlkerung zur Zeit der spanischen Herrschaft über die Niederlande. In diesem opulent bebilderten Werk zeichnen die Autoren, Emile Michel und Victoria Charles, ein lebendiges Bild, anhand dessen wir die Entwicklung der niederländischen und flämischen Kunst in der Zeit zwischen dem 15. und dem 17. Jahrhundert nachvollziehen knnen.

Pieter Bruegel und Kunstwerke

The Renaissance began at the end of the 14th century in Italy and had extended across the whole of Europe by the second half of the 16th century. The rediscovery of the splendour of ancient Greece and Rome marked the beginning of the rebirth of the arts following the break-down of the dogmatic certitude of the Middle Ages. A number of artists began to innovate in the domains of painting, sculpture, and architecture. Depicting the ideal and the actual, the sacred and the profane, the period provided a frame of reference which influenced European art over the next four centuries.

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, Giorgione, Mantegna, Raphael, Dürer and Bruegel are among the artists who made considerable contributions to the art of the Renaissance.

Renaissance Art

Des poteries sumériennes antiques aux verres teintés de Tiffany, les arts décoratifs constituent une part importante de la vie des hommes depuis des générations. Alors que les beaux-arts demeurent davantage dans les galeries et les musées, les arts décoratifs sont ceux de la vie de tous les jours, associant la beauté à la fonctionnalité, le prosaïque au fantastique. Dans cet ouvrage, Albert Jacquemart et Émile Michel célèbrent la beauté et le potentiel artistique des objets du quotidien. Après avoir parcouru ce livre, les lecteurs auront un nouvel avis sur les subtilités artistiques des objets utilitaires.

1000 Chef-d'œuvre des Arts décoratifs

A escultura Mega Square estende-se ao longo de 23.000 anos e mais de 120 exemplos das melhores esculturas do mundo: da arte pré-histórica e estátuas Egípcias aos trabalhos de Miguel Ângelo, Henry Moore e Niki de Saint-Phalle. É uma amostra da grande variedade de materiais utilizados e da evolução de estilos ao longo dos séculos, assim como das particularidades dos escultores mais importantes.

Escultura

In art history, the term 'Romanesque art' distinguishes the period between the beginning of the 11th and the end of the 12th century. This era showed a great diversity of regional schools each with their own unique style. In architecture as well as in sculpture, Romanesque art is marked by raw forms. Through its rich iconography and captivating text, this work reclaims the importance of this art which is today often overshadowed by the later Gothic style.

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