Art Books

Winckelmanns Hauptwerk zur antiken Kunst, griechischen Idealform und Kunstgeschichtsschreibung.

Les critiques d’art de Diderot observent peinture, théâtre du regard et goût des Lumières.

Hogarth’s influential art treatise on line, movement, variety, grace, and visual composition.

Ruskin’s major defense of Turner and a sweeping study of landscape, truth, nature, imagination, and art.

Essays on Renaissance art, beauty, style, Leonardo, Botticelli, Michelangelo, and aesthetic experience.

A Victorian art classic on sacrifice, truth, power, beauty, life, memory, and obedience in architecture.

Lessings kunsttheoretischer Klassiker über Dichtung, Malerei, Skulptur, Körper, Handlung und Grenzen der Künste.

Leonardo osserva luce, corpo, prospettiva, movimento e natura come fondamenti dell’arte del dipingere.

王国维以“境界”论词，贯通美学、诗词批评与近代文学思想。

刘勰系统论文章体、文采、创作与批评，是中国古代文学理论的高峰之作。

A practical and thoughtful guide to drawing, observation, line, tone, and visual discipline.

A major work of art and architectural criticism on Venice, Gothic design, craft, and culture.

Le biografie vasariane che hanno modellato il racconto del Rinascimento e dell’artista moderno.

Blake’s illuminated poems contrast childhood vision with social cruelty, repression, and prophetic imagination.