Picasso

by Pablo Picasso, Jean-Louis Andral

The Tempest

by William Shakespeare

A tempestuous noise of thunder and lightning heard.

The Merchant of Venice

by William Shakespeare

ANY approach to understanding Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice inevitably includes a discussion of the vexed questio...

A Midsummer Night's Dream

by William Shakespeare

OF all the commentators on Shakespeare, perhaps the oddest is Ulrich Braker, a Swiss weaver, who in 1780 finished writin...

Leonardo

by Leonardo da Vinci, Kunster

TOWARD THE MIDDLE of the sixteenth centry, the prolific Gliorgio Vasari, a mediocre painter but a respectable architect ...

Frank Lloyd Wright

by Frank Lloyd Wright

Henri Matisse

by Henri Matisse, Olivier Berggruen

This is the black dancer, Josephine Baker, queen of the Roaring 20s and 30s famous for appearing on stage wearing nothin...

Gustav Klimt

by Alessandra Comini

American Film

by American Film Institute

A triumph in decorative art

by George Thomas Daly

Art since 1900

by Hal Foster, Rosalind E. Krauss

Kunstformen der Natur

by Ernst Haeckel

Conservation of wood in painting and the decorative arts

by International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

Mario Botta

by Mario Botta, Vittorio Fagone

The modern city is increasingly affected by an identity crisis due to the relocation of the industrial fabric that had o...

The Unexpurgated Code

by J. P. Donleavy

Some English decorated metal objects found in Norwegian Viki...

by Egil Bakka

A Swedish legacy

by Nationalmuseum (Sweden)

Decorative arts in the international collections of the Nati...

by National Gallery of Victoria.

Louise Bourgeois

by Louise Bourgeois, Gerald Matt

Salvaging the past

by Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Deborah L. Krohn