Résultats pour "William" dans Artistes, architectes et photographes

In 1529, Michelangelo was in Venice when he first met Titian, Venice's famed painter of princes, gods, and goddesses. Coming face-to-face with Titian's drama-infused, richly colored works, the creator of David and the Sistine Chapel ceiling realized he had met a worthy opponent. Twenty-five years later, Titian came to Rome to paint the pope, and the two met again. Painting in the Vatican, Titian experienced the full power of Michelangelo's work and vowed to surpass the achievements of his older contemporary.

Named a BOOK OF THE YEAR by The Times and Sunday Times, New Statesman, Spectator, Prospect, and New Yorker. ‘Undoubtedly Hoare’s masterpiece’ Olivia Laing ‘Queer in all senses of the word’ Neil Tennant ‘A life-changing book’ Robert Douglas Fairhurst, The Times ‘Fabulously...

Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. In this stunning portrait of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces...

Step into the extraordinary world of William Verdult—an acclaimed Dutch-American painter whose work blended royal heritage, mythological influence, and raw emotional depth. From his early life in war-torn Europe to his rise among American elites, The Life and Times of William Verdult explores the artist’s journey through fame, scandal, artistic brilliance, and ultimate legacy.

‘Entertaining, compelling, revelatory – this is the must-read biography of the year' GYLES BRANDRETH 'A masterpiece. Devon Cox's stunning biography reads like a thriller. His writing and research are without equal' JOANNA LUMLEY The first major biography of Florence-born American artist John...

Socialist, philosopher, and poet William Morris (1834 - 1896) was at the center of the design renaissance of the 1880s, not only because of his celebrated hostility to aspects of machine culture, but because of his success as a designer and businessman whose work had enormous influence on the next generation of artists, craftsmen, and designers.

While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in Incidental Architect Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the late 1700s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city’s own.

In this Pulitzer Prize-finalist biography, the author of Mad at the World examines the little-known life of the man behind the well-known bird survey.

William Turner, English painter and inventor of the abstract: Life and work in a short biography! Everything you need to know, brief and concise. Infotainment, education and entertainment at its best!

William Morris was a giant of the Victorian age, and his beautiful creations and provocative philosophies are still with us today: but his wife, Jane, is too often relegated to a footnote. In truth, Jane and William's personal and creative partnership was the central collaboration of both their lives. The homes they made together were works of art in themselves, and the great labour of their lives was life itself: through their houses and the objects they filled them with, they explored how we all might live a life more focused on beauty and fulfilment.

William Turner, englischer Maler und Erfinder des Abstrakten: Leben und Werk in einer Kurzbiografie! Alles, was man wissen muss, kurz und knapp. Infotainment, Bildung und Unterhaltung vom Feinsten!

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide at the age of 48, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work. In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal struggles of Diane Arbus.

In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small...

My swan song. My last book. Thank you, fans and Amazon. Love you all.

Hope you enjoy listening to my books, my memoirs, most of all my story. Like the man said, "No told me they would be days like these." A story of the rock and roll world, of the fashion world, of being an author from a children's home to Beverley Hills. My family and Glasgow, history from mental ward to Harley Street. People often ask how do you write with all the rings on your fingers, and l say very well, indeed, thinking of buying a Rolls and limo.

My name Billy. Life is good, the strangest life of them all. My story of rock and roll, the fashion world, being an author, my family, and Glasgow history. A love story.

This my story a story of rock and roll the 60 and 70 decade of love and standing up for your rights like love man.

My memoirs are a love story. A story of achievement, of one man's love for the world. A story about the art world and Glasgow and Scotland.