With just 35 known works, Johannes Vermeer is credited with prompting a New York Times best seller, a film starring Scarlett Johansson, and record attendances at art institutions around the world. Discover the craftsman of one of the most important portfolios in art history, in which light, textures, and a sense of unspoken secrets dazzle in their realism and intrigue.

Considered a founding father of modern painting, Vincent van Gogh is also one of the most famed tragic figures in art history. This comprehensive introduction brings together a detailed account of the artist's life with a complete catalog of his 871 paintings.

Enter the world’s finest homes in this dependable global digest featuring talents like Shigeru Ban and Marcio Kogan alongside up-and-comers like Xu Fu-Min, Vo Trong Nghia, Desai Chia, and Shunri Nishizawa. Organized by architect and brimming with crisp photography and plans, the result is a sweeping survey of the contemporary house.

This generously illustrated volume on the work of Monet makes the world's greatest art accessible to readers of every level of appreciation.

Hardly any other epoch in art history has been marked by as many profound changes as the Late Gothic was in the fifteenth century. Inspired by Netherlandish role models, depictions of light and shadow, body and space, became increasingly more realistic. Everyday life found entry into the arts. With the invention of printing, images and texts were distributed to an extent previously unheard of. Artists such as Nicolaus Gerhaert and Martin Schongauer became widely known and influenced the devel...

What public institutions are capable of

De Friese kunstenaar Jentsje Popma (1921) ontwikkelde zich in de loop van zijn leven tot een veelzijdig kunstenaar: beeldhouwer, glazenier, tekenaar, kunstschilder en docent aan de kunstacademie Minerva in Groningen. Een groot oeuvre van beelden en ramen van zijn hand is nog steeds zichtbaar in de openbare ruimte. Hierin geeft hij op trefzekere wijze gestalte aan de historie van Friesland en de Bijbelse verhalen. Zijn schilderijen tonen met name landschappen, dijken en de Wadden: vol kleur, m...

Tjibbe Hooghiemstra (beeldend kunstenaar) en Douwe Kootstra (schrijver en verteller) zijn gek op stabijs. Tjibbe heeft al jaren zulke honden. Die inspireerden hem tot een uitgebreide serie tekeningen.

Los van de verbeeldingen van Tjibbe schreef Douwe verhalen die één overeenkomst hebben: een stabij speelt de hoofdrol. De mix van beeld en tekst maakt Stabij tot een bijzonder boek. Geen hondenboek in de klassieke zin maar een ode aan de mens in de hond.

With fifty-three paintings on paper Ed van der Kooy (The Hague, 1956) reflects on the current juncture, at which a volatile pandemic, racial riots and a persistent climate crisis dominate news reports. Sometimes the pictures are dark and intense. Sometimes they just appear to be idyllic, because there is a snake in the grass, disturbing the dream. In a painterly respect, too, nothing seems to be self-evident.

At his request, his daughter Floortje van der Kooy (The Hague, 1993) writes her refl...