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Rococo (Taschen Basic Art Series)
Eva Gesine Baur, Ingo F Walther
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The dramatic style of the 18th century Emerging out of Baroque as a more relaxed style, Rococo was dominant in interiors, decorative art, and painting throughout Europe in the 18th century. With sentiment and emotion prevailing over reason, Rococo...
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Atlas Maior - Hollandia Et Belgica
Joan Blaeu, Peter Van Der Krogt
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Maps of Holland and Belgium from Joan Blaeu's exquisite world atlas of 1665 The finest and most comprehensive baroque atlas was Joan Blaeu's exceptional Atlas Maior, completed in 1665. The original eleven-volume Latin edition, containing 594 maps,...
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History of Girly Magazines (Klotz)
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Pin-ups from the 19th century to the 1960s It all started around 1900, and wouldnt you know the French were the first? Whether you call them mens sophisticates, nudie books, or girly magazines, this long-ignored art form has a rich...
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Symbolism (Big Art S.)
Michael Gibson
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A key movement in modern art "To clothe the idea in perceptible form," proposed the poet Jean Moréas in his 1886 Manifesto of Symbolism. It was in France and Belgium, the cradles of literary Symbolism, that Symbolist painting was born. It plunged...
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