Auguste Rodin Drawings And Watercolours: “I have drawn all my life. I began withdrawing: I have never stopped drawing.”_x0015_Auguste Rodin From the “black” drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolor nudes, this book reproduces hundreds of Auguste Rodin’s most beautiful graphic works held in the collection
Automata The Golden Age 1848-1914 – The automaton is the playful collaboration of the artist and the artisan, with sculpture, painting, music, costume, and mechanics all playing a part in its creation. In Automata: The Golden Age, Christian Bailly opens with a depiction of mid-19th-century Paris, where French automaton-makers lived and worked.
Botticelli- Life And Work There is no more radiant picture in European art than this,” writes Lightbown of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus . An absorbing text, fresh photographs of every autograph work and marvelous enlarged details of the cleaned ones situate the Florentine innovator in the hothouse of 15th-century politics
Burr –A Novel For readers who cant get enough of the hit Broadway musical Hamilton, Gore Vidals stunning novel about Aaron Burr, the man who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel_x0014_and who served as a successful, if often feared, statesman of our fledgling nation. Here is an extraordinary portrait of one of
