Peter Paul Rubens is a biography of the famous Flemish artist.

This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert's gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author's book on Florence will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city.

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Group takes readers on a captivating journey to one of the world's most celebrated cities.Mary McCarthy brings her novelist's unerring eye to a book that blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create a living portrait of "the world's loveliest city."Like a painter capturing the city's essence on canvas, McCarthy uses words to create stunning visuals that bring both the old and n...

Few artists achieve in their lives the wealth and fame of Sir Peter Paul Rubens, whose beautiful Baroque works were celebrated for their emphasised movement, colour and sensuality. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Rubens’ complete works in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual...

The leader of the French Romantic school of art, Eugène Delacroix was influential in the development of both Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, producing historical and contemporary masterpieces that would change the course of art. Delphi Classics’ Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Delacroix’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, wi...

The most prominent exponent of Venetian art, Titian was equally adept with portraits and landscapes, as well as mythological and religious subjects. His celebrated use of colour would exercise a profound influence on future generations of Western art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Titian’s complete paintings in beautiful detai...

In the fifteenth century, the Italian city-state of Florence reached the pinnacle of its renown under the Medici, a family celebrated for the statesmen it produced and its patronage of the arts and letters. Its most illustrious members were Cosmo and his grandson Lorenzo, surnamed the Magnificent. With his brother Giuliano, Lorenzo, on the death of their father Piero, succeeded to the vast wealth and political power of the family. The subsequent assassination of Giuliano left Lorenzo alone...

Giovanni Bellini revolutionised Venetian painting, developing a more sensuous and colouristic style. Through his use of clear, slow-drying oil paints, Bellini created deep, rich tints and detailed shadings, producing sumptuous artworks that were significant to the Italian Renaissance, especially for his pupils Giorgione and Titian. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive d...

According to Wikipedia: "Clara Erskine Clement Waters (28 August 1834 in St. Louis, Missouri February 29, 1916 in Brookline, Massachusetts) was a United States author and traveler."

The leading exponent of the Rococo style, Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s paintings are characterised by remarkable facility, exuberance and frivolous hedonism. Regarded as one of the greatest colourists of art history, Fragonard produced stunning artworks that capture the spirit of the final days of the Ancien Régime, conveying intimacy and veiled eroticism. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artist...

An "excellent" biography of the Renaissance artist, drawing on contemporary accounts and recent art historical research & scholarship ( Booklist).Born in the mountains above Venice in the late fifteenth century, Tiziano Vecellio—or Titian—was the greatest painter of the Venetian High Renaissance. A poetic visionary and a technical master of oils, he painted everything, from frescoes and grand altarpieces to mythological stories and portraits—works described...

Revered by artists and collectors since the seventeenth century, Claude Lorrain was a master of landscape painting, raising the reputation of the art form to new heights. His paintings present idealised views of nature, governed by Classical concepts and fuelled by the inspiration of the Roman Campagna. Claude’s special contribution was the poetic rendering of light, which would particularly influence the Romantic movement and change the course of art. Delphi’s Masters of Art Serie...