The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists’ response to the Catholic Church’s demand for solemn grandeur...
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term ‘Rococo’. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it...
Rembrandt is completely mysterious in his spirit, his character, his life, his work and his method of painting. What we can divine of his essential nature comes through his painting and the trivial...
Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (June 1599 – August 6 1660), known as Diego Vélasquez, was a painter of the Spanish Golden Age who had considerable influence at the court of King Philip IV. Along...
Condemned by the Nazis as a degenerate artist, Franz Marc (1880-1916) was a German painter whose stark linearity and emotive use of color eloquently expressed the pain and trauma of war. In work such...
Even today, the splendid appearance of angels remains undiminished. Images of these heavenly and powerful messengers convey protection, innocence and calm, and have been an inspiration to religious...
Erotic photo art has lost much of its exquisite soul since Playboy and other girlie monthlies repackaged the human body for mass-market consumption. Like much painting, sculpture and engraving, since...
Mega Square Herbarium is based on the work of Basilius Besler, the famous plant expert who, for the first time in history, described, painted and engraved over a thousand species of plants. His...
The self-appointed “leader” of the artists’ group Die Brücke (Bridge), founded in Dresden in 1905, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a key figure in the early development of German Expressionism. His first...
“I am not interested in myself as a subject for painting, but in others, particularly women…”Beautiful, sensuous and above all erotic, Gustav Klimt’s paintings speak of a world of opulence and...
What do the thousands of images of bras and panties on perfectly sculpted bodies that we see spread across billboards and magazines say about our society?
Mega Square Shoes focuses on the history of the shoe and elevates the shoe to the rank of a work of art. The author is a leading expert on the subject and curator of France‘s Shoe Museum, which holds...
During the Renaissance, Italian painters would traditionally depict the wives of their patrons as Madonnas, often rendering them more beautiful than they actually were. Over centuries in religious...
Le terme « herbier » dans son acceptation première désigne un ouvrage traitant des plantes. C'est ce sens qu'il faudra retenir pour l'herbier que nous vous proposons. Nous avons choisi l'herbier de...
Qu’y-a-t-il de plus banal qu’une paire de chaussures ? Pourtant, aujourd’hui encore, la moitié de l’humanité n’en connaît pas l’usage. Dans un monde où la chaussure est devenue un objet de...
L’art a été profondément marqué par la figure de la Vierge Marie, le symbole de la maternité, rayonnante de jeunesse, de tendresse et de compassion depuis deux mille ans. Trouvant en elle une source...
Albrecht Dürer
(Nuremberg, 1471–1528)
Dürer est le plus grand artiste allemand et le plus représentatif de l'esprit germanique. Comme Léonard, c'était un homme extrêmement attirant physiquement,...
Die Mega Square Ausgabe Kama Sutra ist eine Hommage an den Zauber der Liebe und ein universelles Verhaltenshandbuch. Raffinierte Fresken und filigrane Drucke illustrieren es mit großer Detailliebe....
Was sagen die abertausenden Bilder von BHs und Unterwäsche an perfekten Körpern, die wir täglich auf unzähligen Plakaten und in Magazinen sehen, über unsere Gesellschaft aus? Viele Frauen kleiden sich...
Die Mega Square Ausgabe Schuhe präsentiert die Geschichte dieses Kleidungsstückes und erhebt es zu einem Kunstwerk. Der Autor ist ein führender Experte in diesem Gebiet und Kurator des französischen...
