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.
Ben Nicholson (1894-1982) was one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century. A pioneer of abstract art in Britain, he first came to prominence with his famous ‘white reliefs’, but he also maintained a lifelong attachment to landscape and still-life forms and – in an astounding career of over
Bibliotheca buddhica – 30 vol. set BUDDHISM: The scholar mainly responsible for inviting the books to the series was Th. Stcherbatsky. The Sanskrit originals of several ones are not extant and are represented here by tranlations, mostly in Tibetan. The set is a veritable library of rare and famous Buddhist
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
