Art

10 Things You Might Not Know About Leonardo da Vinci

1. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), the famous Renaissance-era scientist, inventor, anatomist, and artist known for Mona Lisa and The Last…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Pablo Picasso

1.Pablo Picasso, born in 1881, held the first exhibition of his work at the age of 13—in the back of…

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10 Things You Might Not Know About Leonardo da Vinci

1. Although he is best known as the painter who created such masterpieces as the “Mona Lisa” and the “Last…

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Le Corbusier

Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris—better known as Le Corbusier, the name he adopted in 1920—was among the most significant architects and urban planners…

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Leonardo Da Vinci: In His Own Words

Few historical figures are as engaging to ponder than Leonardo Da Vinci, the renowned Italian artist, engineer, architect, inventor, humanist,…

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Le Corbusier: Architect and Feminist

Flora Samuel, an architect and lecturer at the Welsh School of Architecture, has written widely on the subject of Le…

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Picasso, My Grandfather

This memoir—the first from a Picasso progeny—recounts the cumulative familial wreckage produced by Pablo Picasso, as told by his granddaughter,…

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Leonardo and The Last Supper

Ross King has published three engaging books, over the past sixteen years or so, that describe the creation of three of…

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Dalí

This brief and colorful volume offers a biographical and thematic survey of the remarkably complex and controversial work of the…

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The Sphinx on the Table: Sigmund Freud’s Art Collection and the Development of Psychoanalysis

Janine Burke’s examination of Sigmund Freud is part biography, part art history, and part analysis of Freud, the man. She…

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