Francisco de Zurbarán was a Spanish painter, known mainly for his religious paintings depicting monks, nuns, and martyrs, and for his still-lifes. Zurbarán gained the nickname "Spanish Caravaggio", owing to the forceful, realistic use of chiaroscuro in which he excelled. He painted directly from nature, and made great use of the lay-figure in the study of draperies, in which Zurbarán was particularly expert. His subjects were mostly severe and ascetic religio...

"My job is to draw what I see, not what I know." - J. M. W. TurnerJoseph Mallord William Turner was English artist, one of the greatest and most imaginative painters who put on a pedestal landscape painting. Although renowned for his oils, he is as well one of the coryphées of British watercolor landscape painting.Having been skilled academically, Turner seemed to spend the rest of his life developing an ever more loose style. He uncompromisingly studied nature and light. H...

This e-book is a collection with 72 Van Gogh's watercolors formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents. Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890) began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. In just over a decade, he produced more than 2100 artworks, consisting of 860 oil paintings and more than 1300 watercolors, drawings, sketches and prints. He produced nearly 150 watercolor paintings...

This Art Book contains reproductions of Claude Monet pastels. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).Although Monet helped perpetrate the myth that he did not, and maybe even could not, draw, nearly 500 of more than 2,500 his works are sketchbooks, drawings and pastels.Works by Monet in pastel on paper are very rare - there are just over 100 known to exi...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Gustav Klimt drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Drawings played a major role in Gustav Klimt's artistic development. From sketches and preparatio...

Berthe Morisot was French painter and printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Morisot was born in Bourges, Cher, France, into a successful bourgeois family. As the child of upper middle-class parents, she was given appropriate education. In 1858 she and her sister Edma left to study under Joseph-Benoit Guichard, a pupil of Ingres and Delacroix. In the same year they registered as copyists in the Louvre, copying Veronese and Rubens....

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin was a Russian landscape artist strongly connected with the Peredvizhniki movement. His paintings are famous for lyrical representation of woods and nature. The masterpieces of this outstanding artist benefit from enormous fame in Russia; the most excellent of them have become the classics. During four decades of his artistic career Shishkin created thousands of paintings, studies and drawings and a huge number of engravings. For his contemporaries, he personified Ru...

This Art Book contains reproductions of Claude Monet drawings. Book includes Table of Contents and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing). Claude Monet (1840-1926) is one of the best-known and most beloved painters in the history of art, master of landscape scenes, rapidly executed in front of the motif, in vibrant oil paint directly onto a canvas. And yet there remains a previously undiscovered a...

This e-book is a collection with 98 Masterpieces from Egon Schiele formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents.Egon Schiele (1890 - 1918) was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize his paintings and drawings mark the artist as one an earliest exponent of Expressionism. Some critics view Schiele's work as being grotesqu...

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida was a Valencian Spanish artist, outshined in the painting of portraits, landscapes, and monumental works of social and historical themes. His most characteristic paintings are described by a skilful depicting of the people in bold landscape under the sunlight of his native Valencia."The painter of light"; this is how Joaquin Sorolla, one of the most important figures in the history of Spanish art and one of the most internationally famous painters of his t...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers.This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Michelangelo Buonarroti drawings, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).A sculptor, architect, painter, and graphic artist, Michelangelo ca...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers.This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Caravaggio greatest masterpieces, date and interesting facts page below. Book includes Table of Contents, thumbnail gallery and is formatted for all e-readers and Tablets (use rotate and/or zoom feature on landscape/horizontal images for optimal viewing).Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 1571 – 18 July 1610) w...