
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (Aschaffenburg, 1880 – Frauenkirch, 1938) «Leader » autoproclam du groupe d’artistes die Brcke (Pont), fond Dresde en 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, joua un rle central dans les premiers...
Gustav Klimt (Baumgarten, 1862 – Vienne, 1918) «Faire un autoportrait ne m\'intresse pas. Les sujets de peinture qui m\'intressent ? Les autres et en particulier les femmes… » Aucune rfrence au monde extrieur ne vient...
Quelle utilit ont les dessous fminins qui s\'talent aujourd\'hui tant sur les affiches que dans les magazines, enveloppant des corps de femmes parfaites? Pour beaucoup de femmes, les dessous sont achets pour faire...
l\'inverse d\'un Occident pudibond, l\'Asie, et tout particulirement l\'Inde, a su dvelopper une imagerie rotique aux antipodes de toute vulgarit vide de sens. Corps alanguis, courbes lgantes et tenues raffines...
Le terme « herbier » dans son acceptation premire dsigne un ouvrage traitant des plantes. C\'est ce sens qu\'il faudra retenir pour l\'herbier que nous vous proposons. Nous avons choisi l\'herbier de Basilius Besler,...
Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, since its beginning...
Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which holds the greatest shoe...
During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas, often rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. Over centuries in religious paintings, the...
The self-appointed “leader” of the artists’ group Die Brcke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first works show the...
“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and leisure, which seems...
Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents...
Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. His drawings are of great...
Mega Square Kama Sutra pays homage to the magic of love and is a universal educational manual. This edition is tastefully illustrated with refined frescos and delicate prints.
What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society?
Even today, the splendid appearance of angels remains undiminished. Images of these heavenly and powerful messengers convey protection, innocence and calm, and have been an inspiration to religious artists throughout...
Diego Rodrguez de Silva y Velzquez (June 1599 – August 6 1660), known as Diego Vlasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV. Along with Francisco Goya...
Condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist, Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter whose stark linearity and emotive use of color eloquently expressed the pain and trauma of war. In work such as his celebrated...
Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial or tragic incidents...
Drer is the greatest of German artists and most representative of the German mind. He, like Leonardo, was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment,...
Universally celebrated for the intricacy of his pointillist canvases, Georges Seurat (1859-1891) was a painter whose stunning union of art and science produced uniquely compelling results. Seurat’s intricate paintings...
