Raya Yotova: 80 books

This book with introduction and annotations written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of figure drawings and paintings by Anders Zorn. Anders Zorn was natural from Yvraden, a rural community of Utmeland in the town of Mora, Dalarna. Zorn learned in the town-school at Mora previous to move in the...

This book with Foreword written by Raya Yotova contains reproductions of drawings and paintings by Joos Van Cleve. Joos Van Cleve (1485 – 1541) is famous for connecting conventional Netherlands’ art methods with style of more fashionable Renaissance painting techniques. A prominent associate and...

William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake was considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic...

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727 – 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Domenico was born in Venice, studied under his father, and by the age of 13 was the chief assistant to him....

Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848) was an American artist. He is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School, an American art movement that flourished in the mid-19th century. Cole's Hudson River School, as well as his own work, was known for its realistic and detailed portrayal of American landscape...

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 – 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista...

John Constable (1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home which he invested with an intensity of affection. Although his paintings are now among the most popular and valuable...

The book, being a collection of 88 drawings, is a good sample for a large number of artist's great work, and for those who want to know more about William Hogarth’s drawing. Actually it is a good book for those who like to study more about art: 88 sketches in a book is not a big amount of picture...

Hugo van der Goes is a famous and very original Flemish artist of altars and portraits. The artist has made many fundamental innovations in the painting of the epoch through his method of monumental painting, an individual palette of colours and as well with his specific portrait style. His masterpiece,...

Cornelis de Vos was a Flemish painter, master of drawings and art dealer. He has been one of the leading portraits in Antwerp and is best known for his brilliant technique in pictures, especially portraits of children and families. De Vos has been successful in other genres, including historical painting,...

Dirck van Baburen was native from Wijk bij Duurstede, but his family moved to Utrecht when he was still young. The earliest details of the artist are from 1611 in the record of the Utrecht Guild of St. Luca as a student of Paulus Moreelse. After 1612 he traveled to Rome. There he worked with his compatriot...

Hans Memling was a Flemish artist of German origin, who received his education and started his career in Germany, but then he continued to paint in Flanders. He was born and spent his childhood in Mainz, Germany. Later, he moved to Brussels for a while, where he worked and studied and painted in the...

He is regarded as the most famed and leading painter of Flemish Baroque movement. Peter Paul Rubens concentrated in painting church decorations, portrayals, landscape paintings, and thematically pictures with plots from mythology and ancient as well as allegorical themes. His perfectly constructed...

Bernard van Orley is one of the leading artists of the Flemish Renaissance. Characteristic of his work, which consists of painting, tapestry and stained glass, was the strong influence of the Italian Renaissance masters. This, along with several other great Flemish masters, makes him one of the pioneers...