Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was a British painter and writer, born in Switzerland. As a painter, he favored the supernatural and leaning everything on an ideal scale, believing a certain amount of hyperbole necessary in the higher branches of historical painting. The figures in his paintings are full of life and earnestness. Like Rubens he excelled in the art settings his figures in motion. The grotesque humor of his fairy scenes is in its way not less remarkable then the poetic power of his ...

This book is collection of 81 Masterpieces formatted for the e-readers, with descriptions, dates and Table of Contents.The book demonstrate how fundamental drawing was to van Gogh's art.Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) drew thousands of images to better his style. He believed that drawing was "the roof of everything" and completed over 1000 drawings from 1877 to 1890.At the outset of his career, he left it necessary to master black and white before attempting to work in...

Concise. Essential. Annotated. These three words describe what the books in My Pocket Gallery gives readers. This Art Book contains annotated reproductions of Leonardo da Vinci 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). Leonardo recorded his constant flow of ideas for paintings on paper. In his Studies for the ...

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...

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...

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...

"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...

Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist artist which paintings, drawings and murals are marked by eroticism and sensuality. Klimt lived a simple, cloistered life, in which he avoided other artists and café society, but he had many discreet love affairs with women, and fathered at least 14 children. His passion for women and their forms and sexuality, was the main focus of a lot of his works. The majority of his paintings were characterized by golden with swirling designs.During his ...

This book is a collection of 80 fundamental quotes and aphorisms of Anne Bronte:“There is always a "but" in this imperfect world.”“You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.”“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”“But he that dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose.”

George Stubbs was marvellous English animal painter and anatomical draftsman, famous for his paintings of horses. Stubbs also painted a wide range of other animals, including the lion, tiger, giraffe, monkey, and rhinoceros, which he was able to observe in private menageries. According to the Ozias Humphrey, Stubbs was so convinced of the importance of observation that he visited Italy in 1754 only to reinforce his belief that nature is superior to art. Among Stubbs's best-known pictures a...

Berthe Morisot was French painter and printmaker, member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. Morisot painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Her paintings reflect the 19th-century cultural restrictions of her class and gender. She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her ...

  Ilya Repin (1844 - 1930) was a Russian painter, master of portrait, historical, and scenes from everyday life. He was also Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, memoirist, author of several essays, compiled a book of memoirs "Far close", professor and rector (1898-1899) of the Academy of Fine Arts. Among his disciples was B. Kustodiev , M. Grabar , M. Kulikov , F. A. Maljavin  and V. A. Serov.