Mad Enchantment

Author : Ross King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860147
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Enchantment written by Ross King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement. Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Monet intended the water lilies to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced in trying to capture the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of his life. Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then seventy-three, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what Paul Cezanne called "the most prodigious eye in the history of painting†?--was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture.

Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 9780449147733
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enchantment written by Kristin Hannah and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmaline Hatter was a beautiful, brilliant, and rich Wall Street financier in the nineteenth century until the crash of 1893 wiped her out completely. Desperate to recoup her losses, she joins Dr. Larence Digby in his search for the legendary lost city of Cibola, rumored to be rich in gold. Emmaline was used to getting her own way, but Larence was not about to give up control of his expedition to a woman. Somehow, in a world of enchantment, each would have to learn to believe -- to trust the other with their lives, their secrets, and their hearts . . .

Author : Claude Monet
Publisher : Little, Brown Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780316728010
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monet by Himself written by Claude Monet and published by Little, Brown Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume on the life and work of Claude Monet is quite unlike any other book on this popular artist, as for the first time his letters have been brought together with his paintings, pastels and drawings. There are letters to his fellow artists and youthful friends, long affectionate letters to family and loved ones and begging letters in times of hardship. We read of Monet's persistence in money matters, his frustrations and successes while on painting expeditions to Italy, Brittany and Norway, and his experience of solitude, illness and bereavement in later life. Monet emerges from the correspondence as a more troubled and complex individual than his sun-filled canvases might suggest. Alongside the artist's letters are more than 200 superb colour reproductions. These accompany the text and enable the reader to follow the young artist through his first encounters with the Parisian art scene, his days as a commanding presence in the Impressionist movement and the final chapter of his life when he produced some of his most ambitious and colourful work at Giverny.

Author : Claire Joyes
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monet's Table written by Claire Joyes and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1989 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As well as his fellow Impressionists -- in particular Renoir, Pissarro, Sisley, Degas and Cezanne --

Author : Kathrine Beck
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780143034292
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opal written by Kathrine Beck and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part biography, part fast-paced mystery, this is the magical story of a beguiling personality and one of the most captivating literary mysteries of the last century.

Author : Dawn Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974624976
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blue Moon Enchantment written by Dawn Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folklore says if one wishes upon a Blue Moon, an enchantment will be granted. Join 15 authors on their journey of enchantment in this anthology of romance stories where wishes come true and love conquers all. The anthology includes historicals, contemporaries, and even a bit of whimsy.

Author : Ross King
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385692994
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bookseller of Florence written by Ross King and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bookseller of Florence captures the excitement and spirit of the Renaissance amid the technological disruption that forever changed the ways knowledge spread, from the bestselling author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling. The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of the dazzling handiwork of the city's skilled artists and architects. But equally important for the centuries to follow were geniuses of a different sort: Florence's manuscript hunters, scribes, scholars, and booksellers, who blew the dust off a thousand years of history and, through the discovery and diffusion of ancient knowledge, imagined a new and enlightened world. Born in 1422, Vespasiano da Bisticci became what a friend called "the king of the world's booksellers." At a time when all books were made by hand, for over four decades Vespasiano produced and sold hundreds of volumes from his bookshop, which also became a gathering spot for discussion and debate. His clients included a roll-call of popes, kings, and princes across Europe. Vespasiano reached the summit of his powers as Europe's most prolific merchant of knowledge when a new invention appeared: the printed book. By 1480, the king of the world's booksellers was swept away by this epic technological disruption, whereby cheaply produced books reached readers who never could have afforded one of Vespasiano’s elegant manuscripts. A thrilling chronicle of intellectual ferment set against the dramatic political and religious turmoil of the era, The Bookseller of Florence is also an ode to books and bookmaking that charts the world-changing shift from script to print through the life of one of the true titans of the Renaissance.

Author : Oscar-claude Monet
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781468068443
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Paintings of Claude Monet written by Oscar-claude Monet and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-12-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to 'plein-air' landscape painting. The term Impressionism is derived from the title of his painting Impression, Sunrise (Impression, 'soleil levant').This book is the most comprehensive collection of Claude Monet's Paintings ever published, covering the artist's entire 64 years of creation; a keepsake for the connoisseur of fine art. On 484 pages, this book includes a detailed biography, a resume written by Monet himself (in English and French), and over 900 paintings on 460 colour plates (large format 8½ x 11 inches), as well as a special section of Monet's famous Water Lilies Series, and the Series of the London Parliament Buildings and Bridges. Monet's paintings obtain record prices at auctions. 'Le Pont du chemin de fer à Argenteuil,' an 1873 painting of a railway bridge spanning the Seine near Paris, was bought for a record $41.4 million at Christie's auction in New York on 6th May 2008. The previous record for Monet's painting stood at $36.5 million. 'Le basin aux nyphéas' (from the water lilies series) sold at Christie's 24 June 2008 for £40,921,250 ($80,451,178) setting a new auction record for the artist.

Author : Ross King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860139
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mad Enchantment written by Ross King and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement. Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Monet intended the water lilies to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece, these beautiful canvases belie the intense frustration Monet experienced in trying to capture the fugitive effects of light, water, and color. They also reflect the terrible personal torments Monet suffered in the last dozen years of his life. Mad Enchantment tells the full story behind the creation of the Water Lilies, as the horrors of World War I came ever closer to Paris and Giverny and a new generation of younger artists, led by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, were challenging the achievements of Impressionism. By early 1914, French newspapers were reporting that Monet, by then seventy-three, had retired his brushes. He had lost his beloved wife, Alice, and his eldest son, Jean. His famously acute vision--what Paul Cezanne called “the most prodigious eye in the history of painting”--was threatened by cataracts. And yet, despite ill health, self-doubt, and advancing age, Monet began painting again on a more ambitious scale than ever before. Linking great artistic achievement to the personal and historical dramas unfolding around it, Ross King presents the most intimate and revealing portrait of an iconic figure in world culture.

Author : Ken Evans
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1665591749
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enchantment's Odds & Ends written by Ken Evans and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To be Enchanted, at one time, meant to be ‘carried away,’ from one’s hum-drum existence, to something or somewhere magical, perhaps even spiritual, at least, always more than merely physically pleasant! Of course, this depended on one’s beliefs in human souls. Take that away, and enchantment would be as mundane as everything else in modern daily life. No Soul means no possibility of Enchantment. Ken Evans.