Libros

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the techniques and materials used in a range of monumental paintings from the Late Classical to the Graeco-Roman period reflecting the Hellenistic culture.Information is drawn from scientific technical studies, archaeological and art-historical (...)

In stark contrast to the rather modest performance of its large surface fleet in the Second World War, the Italian Navy's smallest units achieved its most spectacular successes. It made a speciality of unconventional methods of attack - explosive motor boats, human torpedoes and miniature (...)

Legendary couturier Yves Saint Laurent continually reinvented the silhouette throughout his career, from his modernist Trapeze dress for Christian Dior in 1958 to his pop art illusion prints.A fashion revolutionary, Yves Saint Laurent and his creations were resolutely modern. His ongoing (...)

Austrian artist Egon Schiele is known above all through his expressionist paintings and drawings, primarily made between 1910 and 1913/14, in which he expressed the inner turmoil of an entire generation in his depictions of the human figure. His later works following 1914, which differ markedly (...)