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The brilliance of Peter Paul Rubens' career changed forever the perceptions of painting and painters. These three biographies of the artist show the impact of his life and art on three very different observers.

Als Revolutionär und Rebell war Keith Haring ein Künstler für das Volk und schuf ein Repertoire an Symbolen mit Wiedererkennungswert, das zum Synonym für die unbeständige Kultur der 1980er Jahre wurde. Haring stürzte sich spielerisch auf alle Aspekte dieses Jahrzehnts - Hip-Hop, New Wave, Graffiti, Homosexuellenkultur - und kombinierte sie, während sein fanatischer Tatendrang ihn in die Umlaufbahn der interessantesten Menschen seiner Zeit katapultierte. Mit 25 Jahren berühmt, mit 31 an AIDS gestorben, ist Haring als eine Art 'Rattenfänger' in Erinnerung geblieben, ein unprätentiöser Kommunikator, der am glücklichsten schien, als er eine Bande von Kindern betreute, sie mit Pinseln bewaffnete und die nächste Mauer damit attackieren ließ.

Part of the Lives of the Artists series: highly readable short biographies of the most popular artists

This volume brings together the groundbreaking criticism of Emile Zola, from his vigorous defence of the iconoclastic young painter to the memorial essay written after Manet's untimely death. A new introduction by Robert Lethbridge sets Zola's essays in the context of Manet's career and his relationship with the writer. 49 pages of illustrations

Two essays remembering Degas by the most acute observers of the avant-garde art of their time, Walter Sickert and George Moore. Introduced by Professor Anna Gruezner Robins, a leading expert on Degas and his British admirers

Michelangelo Buonarrotti (1475-1564) is perhaps the greatest artist in the entire Western tradition. In painting, sculpture and architecture he created works that went beyond anything imagined before. This book draws a picture of Michelangelo - the man and the artist. It features 45 pages of colour illustrations covering his achievement, and more.

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first drawings on stone; Donatello gazing at Brunelleschi's crucifix; and Michelangelo's painstaking work on the Sistine Chapel, harassed by the impatient Pope Julius II. The Lives also convey much about Vasari himself and his outstanding abilities as a critic inspired by his passion for art.

Texts by and about the pioneering woman artist of the Baroque, Artemisia Gentileschi, some printed for the first time in English.

Warhol led an utterly individual life and endures as a transcendental and fascinating cultural figure

Launching the 'Lives the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the most-popular artists

Scion of an artistic dynasty, Giovanni Bellini is arguablythe greatest Venetian painter of the early Renaissance. Hisastonishing naturalism revolutionised altarpiece painting andis still a source of wonder, as any visit to Frari in Venice willconfirm.

The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art.