Hirmer Verlag

Few artists come close to the renown of Raphael—perhaps only his High Renaissance contemporaries Leonardo and Michelangelo—and the range of his artistic achievement, from painting to architecture, is staggering. This book focuses on his drawings and paintings, bringing together more than one (...)

Even in his lifetime, Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) was renowned throughout Europe, and today he is justly celebrated as the greatest painter of the Flemish Baroque. This book draws on the large number of paintings from Rubens and his workshop owned by the Kunsthistorisches Museum, which include (...)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder is considered the greatest Dutch draughtsman of the sixteenth century. Even during his lifetime his drawings were highly valued and many ended up being widely disseminated in the for m of copperplate prints. Drawing on the pictorial tradition of previous artist generations, (...)

From painterly portrait studies to mythological epics, love stories to picturesque ruins, French art of the baroque and the rococo in the seventeenth century is dazzlingly seductive. This book presents seventy major works of French drawing from the Albertina that highlight the range and power of (...)

Paul Klee's imaginative works provide a link between the world of reason and the irrational secrets of human existence, charming the viewer with their inventiveness, delight in experimentation, subtle humor, and brilliant color schemes. The Bauhaus painter famously contrasted the technical and (...)

In 1918 the Belvedere Museum in Vienna became the first Austrian museum to acquire an oil painting by Egon Schiele during his lifetime. Now, a century later, the museum owns one of the top collections of paintings from the artist’s final decade of works.This volume presents the highlights of the (...)