This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites’ focus on the natural world intersected with the Victorian passion for all things botanical.

Wake up to artistic inspiration every day with this popular, chunky hardback made available again in a refreshed edition containing a perpetual calendar featuring a dazzling variety of masterpieces from every era.

Norm Architects A Sensory Approach to Architecture and Design. Step inside Norm Architects world of Soft Minimalism, a design philosophy that is inspired by a love of minimalism and which moves away from the cold sterility it is often associated with.

Meet the Belgian Surrealist forever on the hunt for magic and mystery. This introduction to Magritte presents key works from the artist's vast repertoire of visual humor, paradox, and surprise which makes us look and look again, not only at the painting, but at our sense of self and the world.

Fascinated by awareness and ignorance, visual artist Anna Püschel began collecting definitions of words related to knowledge from a broad range of sources, from medieval texts to modern dictionaries. While some are objectively true and others are questionable, she nevertheless gathered the various definitions in this volume, a work that redefines referencing while juxtaposing French poetry with conspiracy theories, political essays, and recipes. Regardless of their origin, the definitions im...

Een bijzondere kijk in de wereld van Ramses Shaffy (1933–2009), Nederlands meest legendarische chansonnier, componist, liedjesschrijver en acteur, aan wie we klassiekers als ‘Sammy’, ‘We zullen doorgaan’, ‘Laat me’, ‘Zing, vecht, huil, bid, lach, werk en bewonder’ en ‘Shaffy cantate’ te danken hebben.

In samenwerking met Allard Pierson en vrienden en familie van Ramses hebben we exclusieve toegang verkregen tot het archief van Ramses Shaffy. Wie erachter wil komen wie Ra...

In a pivotal moment in the development of the arts and the sciences, Pieter Bruegel painted The Blind Leading the Blind (1568), a major work that embodies the transition from the medieval to the humanist mind. In The Blind Leading the Blind, Bruegel ascribed a different treatment to the fi gures and the landscape. I will show how Bruegel applied a white preparation underneath the human fi gures and not beneath the earthy ground surrounding the blind men. In doing so, he physically placed the ...

Binnen de zeventiende-eeuwse schilderkunst speelt de krans een

bescheiden, maar interessante rol. Het is vaak een detail dat niet

direct opvalt, maar dat bij nadere beschouwing toch een specifieke

betekenis aan het schilderij blijkt te geven. Het is fascinerend om

te zien op hoeveel verschillende manieren de krans als symbool

opduikt in de zeventiende-eeuwse schilderkunst.

Veel van zulke opmerkelijke en betekenisvolle kransen komen in

deze publicatie aan bod. Enerzijds heb je de bloemenkrans ...

An exploration of the Bauhaus school and its legacy in the context of the modernist period, including its wider influence on art, design, and education.