An archaeological exploration of the mysterious world of cave art through the ages.

A new edition of the definitive affordable title for students and teachers in the field of contemporary art photography.

A reference guide to fifty of the most frequently occurring symbols in global art history

Pablo Picasso's artistic output is astonishing in its ambition and variety. This handsome new publication examines a particular aspect of his legendary capacity for invention: his imaginative and original use of paper.

Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) was the most successful Dutch painter of his time, admired by the patricians of Amsterdam and the court of William iii of Orange. An eighteenth-century critic called him ‘undoubtedly the greatest genius there ever was in painting’.After a century of neglect his rehabilitation began in 1970 when the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum acquired a series of his monumental grisaille paintings. In an international exhibition (Cologne, Cassel, Dordrecht 2007) he was presented a...

Ten of de Jongh’s most influential articles on seventeenth-century Dutch painting are brought together in this volume: ‘Certain objects or motifs often serve a dual function. They operate as concrete, observable things while at the same time doing something totally different, namely expressing an idea, a moral, an intention, a joke or a situation.’

Het centrale schilderij in dit boek is een werk van Maerten De Vos, een van de belangrijkste kunstenaars uit het zestiende-eeuwse Antwerpen. Toch was het schilderij amper bekend en werd het nauwelijks onderzocht. Hildegard Van de Velde, conservator van het Snijders&Rockoxhuis, brengt daar met dit boek verandering in.

In de reeks ‘Phoebus Focus’ gaan experts en wetenschappers in op topstukken uit de rijke collectie van kunststichting The Phoebus Foundation.

Hildegard Van de Velde (°1960) ...