Bücher der Reihe Painters

REMBRANDT AND HIS ETCHINGS By Louis A. Holman An introduction to the graphic art of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, known for his portraits, self-portraits, historical subjects, and scenes of everyday life in Amsterdam. This reprint in a new format of Holman's study has the subtitle: 'A Compact Record of the Artist's Life, his Work and his Time. With the Complete Chronological List of his Etchings Compiled by A. M. Hind, of the British Museum'. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Rembrandt's career, and a selection of his famous etchings. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

REMBRANDT By Josef Israels An introduction to the life and art of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, known for his portraits, self-portraits, historical subjects, and scenes of everyday life in Amsterdam (first published in 1908). Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Rembrandt's career, and a selection of his famous etchings. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

REMBRANDT AND HIS WORKS By John Burnet An introduction to the life and art of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, known for his portraits, self-portraits, historical subjects, and scenes of everyday life in Amsterdam (first published in 1901). Burnet focusses on the artistic techniques employed by Rembrandt; includes chapters on Rembrandt's drawings and etchings. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Rembrandt's career, and a selection of his famous etchings. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

REMBRANDT VAN RIJN By Malcolm Bell An introduction to the life and art of the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, known for his portraits, self-portraits, historical subjects, and scenes of everyday life in Amsterdam (first published in 1901). Bell provides a detailed biography of Rembrandt. The study includes chapters on Rembrandt's drawings, paintings and etchings. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Rembrandt's career, and a selection of his famous etchings. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

RECOLLECTIONS OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI By T. Hall Caine A study of the celebrated Pre-Raphaelite artist and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti by the people who knew him. This book considers Rossetti and his circle, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Morris, Hunt, Ford, Burne-Jones, and Millais. Caine also explores Rossetti's poetry and his relationship with British poets. Fully illustrated, with works from Dante Gabriel Rossetti and all of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. With a full colour cover. Painters Series. Bibliography and notes. www.crmoon.com

REMBRANDT By Estelle M. Hurll An introduction to the great Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, known for his portraits, self-portraits, historical subjects, and scenes of everyday life in Amsterdam. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Rembrandt's career, and a selection of his famous etchings. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

VAN EYCK By James Cyril M. Weale A fully illustrated introduction to one of the masters of Early Netherlandish painting, Jan van Eyck (c. 1390-1441), commonly described as the founder of modern oil painting. Includes a study of Van Eyck's brother, Hubert. Early Netherlandish painting, also known as Flemish painting, is characterized by figurative realism, its incredible sense of domestic interiors and details, luminous light, its 'realist' faces, and its fusions of a micro- and macro- cosmic vision. All Early Netherlandish paintings were made on wood panels, and painted from light to dark in thin glazes. It is partly this subtle glazing which gives Early Netherlandish painting its glorious luminescence. The Early Netherlandish artists exploited the effects of different hues and thicknesses of glazes of oil paint, controlling how the glazes reflected light. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including contemporaries of Van Eyck. Bibliography and notes. Painters Series. 100 pages. www.crmoon.com

THE ART OF AUBREY BEARDSLEY Introduced by Arthur Symons Aubrey Beardsley (1872-96) was one of the great British artists of the late 19th century, best-known for his unique graphic style. This short introduction to the art and life of Beardsley, first published in 1918, includes illustrations of work, plus that of his contemporaries. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Aubrey Beardsley's career. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

AUBREY BEARDSLEY By Robert Ross Aubrey Beardsley (1872-96) was one of the great British artists of the late 19th century, best-known for his unique graphic style. This short introduction to the art and life of Beardsley includes illustrations of work, plus that of his contemporaries. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, including images from every stage in Aubrey Beardsley's career. Aymer Vallance provides a list of all of Beardsley's drawings. Painters Series. In paperback with a full colour cover. www.crmoon.com

WHISTLER By T. Martin Wood A study of the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), first published in 1908. T. Martin Wood considers Whistler's life and artistic career, and discusses his major works. Fully illustrated in a brand new format, from each stage in James Whistler's career, plus illustrations of some of Whistler's contemporary artists. Painters Series. 220 pages. www.crmoon.com

RAPHAEL By Paul G. Konody An introduction to the art of the Renaissance master artist Raphael Sanzio. Includes a biography of Raphael. It is fully illustrated with works by Raphael, from each stage in his career, plus a section of illustrations by his contemporaries. Fully illustrated in a brand new format. With a full colour case laminate cover.112 pages. www.crmoon.com

LEONARDO DA VINCI By James Pearson Leonardo da Vinci's art is the apotheosis of Renaissance - and Western - art. He depicted angels, Madonnas and saints in ever-mysterious images. His sfumato paintings remain some of the most hypnotic in all of art. The sheer intensity of Leonardo's curiosity and his spectacular inventiveness in the fields of science, botany, geology, anatomy, medicine and warfare make him more than worthy of the name 'universal genius'. The most erotic artist of the Renaissance, the one who created the darkest and the strangest images, who created the most hypnotic smiles in art, who took Western painting to the highest point it has reached, was not Michelangelo Buonarroti, Andrea del Sarto, Fra Angelico, Sandro Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Andrea Mantegna, Raphael, Titian or Masaccio, but Leonardo da Vinci. He is the creator of the Mona Lisa, and '[t]he Mona Lisa is without doubt the most famous work in the entire forty-thousand year history of the visual arts', writes Roy McMullen. Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most celebrated of artists. He is the artist-as-hero, the artist-as-genius - undisputed genius (like Shakespeare or Sophocles). Leonardo is exalted for his amazing mind, his scientific curiosity, his ideas on botany, anatomy, architecture, weaponry, engineering, etc. He wrote copiously, on art and painting, and philosophy; subjects studied in his notebooks include geology, optics, acoustics, music, mathematics, anatomy, hydraulics, ballistics, weight, movement, naval armaments, flight and so on. He 'invented', or rediscovered, the bicycle, an early form of military tank, the helicopter; he understood the principle of gravity before Newton, and explained why stars twinkled before Kepler; he prefigured Bacon, Galileo, Huygens, Cuvier and Halley, among others. Nothing is neglected in Leonardo's 'scientific' curiosity about the world. Artists have long studied all manner of things, despising the relatively recent notion of 'specialization'. The text has been revised for this edition. With a full colour cover. Illustrated, including new illustrations. Painters Series. Bibliography and notes. www.crmoon.com

THE EARLIER AND LATER WORK OF TITIAN By Claude Phillips This is a fully illustrated reprint of two classic books by Claude Phillips, former Keeper of the Wallace Collection in London, on the art and long life of one of the greatest artists in history, Titian Vecelli. This book combines Phillips' two volumes on Titian, the earlier work and the later work. The art of Titian spans the whole of the Italian Renaissance, moving through many visual styles, ending up with a striking use of broken colour that looks forward to Impressionism. Titian created the full range of Renaissance artforms, including portraits, self-portraits, mythological and historical subjects, religious pictures, altarpieces, and many important commissions. The book (first published in 1898) is illustrated by works from the later career of Titian's lengthy and remarkable life. There is also a section on Titian's contemporaries. With a full colour cover. Also in hardcover. Fully illustrated in a brand new format. Includes footnotes. 264 pages. www.crmoon.com

GREAT ARTISTSRAPHAEL • RUBENS • MURILLO • DÜRER By Jennie Ellis Keysor Four of the celebrated masters of the history of art are explored in this book: Raphael Sanzio, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Peter Paul Rubens and Albrecht Dürer. Each chapter on the artists is accompanied by illustrations. The book is a general introduction to art and artists. With a full colour cover. Also in hardcover. Fully illustrated in a brand new format. Bibliography and notes. Painters Series. 152 pages. www.crmoon.com

GREAT PICTURES AS SEEN AND DESCRIBED BY GREAT WRITERS Edited by Esther Singleton This book is a compendium of writings on art and artists by many famous writers and critics, including Pater, Ruskin, Gauthier, Dumas, Swinburne, Symonds, Constable, Shelley, Fromentin and Goethe. Among the artists explored in this book are Raphael, Tintoretto, Gainsborough, Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Botticelli, Correggio, Michelangelo, Titian, Watteau, Rubens, del Sarto, Angelico, Hobbema, Holbein, Leonardo, de la Tour, Van Eyck, Rossetti, Murillo, Velasquez, Reni, Hogarth, Fragonard, Rembrandt and Dürer. Each entry on the artists and artworks is accompanied by illustrations. The book is an entertaining celebration and critical appraisal of art and artists. Fully illustrated in a brand new format. Painters Series. 352 pages. www.crmoon.com

PERUGINO By George Williamson An introduction to the art of the Renaissance master artist Perugino (Pietro di Cristofano Vannucci, called 'il Perugino' - 'the Perugian' - by his contemporaries). Includes a detailed biography of Perugino. It is fully illustrated with works by Perugino, from each stage in his career, plus a section on his contemporary artists. Features a full catalogue of Perugino's works. Fully illustrated in a brand new format. 180 pages. www.crmoon.com