Jp 卡洛斯: 144 books

Goya is perhaps the most approachable of painters. His art, like his life, is an open book. He concealed nothing from his contemporaries, and offered his art to them with the same frankness. The entrance to his world is not barricaded with technical difficulties. He proved that if a man has the capacity...

The eclectic art of which the Carracci family dreamed was realised by Rubens with the ease of genius. However, the problem was much more complicated for a man of the north, who wished to add to it a fusion of the Flemish and Latin spirits, of which the rather pedantic attempts of Romanism had illustrated...

Paul Gauguin was first a sailor, then a successful stockbroker in Paris. In 1874 he began to paint at weekends as a Sunday painter. Nine years later, after a stock-market crash, he felt confident of his ability to earn a living for his family by painting and he resigned his position and took up the...

Léonard de Vinci (Vinci, 1452 – Le Clos-Lucé, 1519) Léonard passa la première partie de sa vie à Florence, la seconde à Milan et ses trois dernières années en France. Le professeur de Léonard fut Verrocchio, d'abord orfèvre, puis peintre et sculpteur. En tant que peintre, Verrocchio était...

Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632 – 1675) Vermeer est le seul peintre correspondant à l'idée que l'on se fait habituellement de la placidité hollandaise. Peutêtre incarne-t-il un genre héroïque de placidité, car aucune de ses peintures ne laisse percer le moindre souffle d'inquiétude. Partout,...

Forgotten Sentinels is a collection of poems that honor the long abandoned seacoast fortifications that dot the Pacific coastline, from Port Townsend, WA to San Diego, CA. Recalling the strategic imperatives that led to the construction of these installations, the poems reflect on an era that has...

A glass of poetry Some like a glass of red wine, others prefer a white instead. I also like a glass of wine sometimes. Wine is like poetry in my mouth But poetry is also like wine: There are so much different kind of poems to taste. Some taste like red wine, others like his white cousin, or do you prefer a rosé wine? A collection of 30 poems for you to taste. Cheers. Rudi J.P. Lejaeghere

Pablo Picasso (Málaga, 1881 – Mougins, 1973) Picasso naquit en Espagne et l’on dit même qu’il commença à dessiner avant de savoir parler. Enfant, il fut nstinctivement attiré par les instruments de l’artiste. Il pouvait passer des heures de joyeuse concentration à dessiner des spirales...

Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. Like the impressionists, with whom he sided, he wanted to impose his own ideas. Whistler’s work can be divided into four periods. The first may be called a period of research...

In this twisty psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Before, an actress plays both sides of a murder investigation. “[A] rich, nuanced, highly literary take on the Gone Girl theme.”—Booklist (starred review) Claire Wright is desperate. A...

Ichthyosis is a common term for a family of rare genetic skin illnesses indicated by dry, thickened, scaling or flaking skin. This Encyclopedia contains tests, causes and treatment options for 28 variants of the disease including Harlequin Baby and Ichthyosis Vulgaris.

Dermatomyositis (DM) is a type of connective tissue disorder that worsens over time. Connective tissue connects, supports, or separates different types of tissues and organs. With dermatomyositis, problems with the connective tissue cause muscles and skin to degenerate. Other areas of the body may...

The perfect life. The perfect love. The perfect lie. From the bestselling author of The Girl Before comes a gripping new psychological thriller. . . . “Dynamic, razor-sharp, and thought-provoking . . . a cutting-edge suspense novel unlike any you’ve read before.”—Mary Kubica, New York...