Cover Image

Faces of power : what great paintings say /

The intrigue, drama and covert messages hidden in the faces of powerful men and women. Byzantine empresses, French revolutionaries and Spanish generals, history's most impressive figures stare boldly out of the canvases in this collection of formidable paintings. Each individual represented in...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Hagen, Rose-Marie (Author), Hagen, Rainer, 1928- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Köln : Taschen, [2018]
Subjects:	Upper class in art > Pictorial works. Human figure in art > History > Pictorial works. Painting > Appreciation.

Similar Items

How the rich lived : the painter as witness, 1870-1914 /
by: Lucie-Smith, Edward
Published: (1976)

States of war : new European and American paintings /
by: Guenther, Bruce
Published: (1985)

Daily life in art /
by: Fontanel, Béatrice
Published: (2006)

Understanding painting : from Giotto to Warhol /
by: Rynck, Patrick de, 1963-, et al.
Published: (2018)

Art models 2 : life nude photos for the visual arts /
Published: (2007)

Painting faces and figures /
by: Katchen, Carole, 1944-
Published: (1986)

How to paint /
by: Zeniuk, Jerry, 1945-
Published: (2017)

Mysteries of the rectangle : essays on painting /
by: Hustvedt, Siri
Published: (2005)

Study of pose /
Published: (2014)

Medicine and art /
by: Emery, Alan E. H.
Published: (2003)

Drawing and painting the figure /
Published: (1983)

Art on the road : painted vehicles of the Americas /
by: Harris, Moira F.
Published: (1988)

The portrait and figure painting book /
by: Blake, Wendon
Published: (1979)

Firenze ai tempi di Cézanne : luoghi e protagonisti di una città moderna = Florence in the time of Cézanne : places and protagonists of a modern city /
Published: (2007)

Putting people in your paintings /
by: Draper, J. Everett
Published: (1985)

Working out a painting /
by: Browning, Colleen
Published: (1988)

The Bundi Wall-paintings in Rajasthan : rediscovered treasures /
by: Beach, Milo Cleveland
Published: (2013)

Nihon no zuzō.
Published: (2009)

Life in the French country house /
by: Girouard, Mark
Published: (2000)

Figure painting in watercolor.
by: Reid, Charles, 1937-
Published: (1972)

Recent painting USA : the figure /
Published: (1962)

Painting the figure in watercolor : simple, fast, and focused /
by: Stabin, Mel
Published: (2003)

Painting portraits, nudes & clothed figures /
by: De Ruth, Jan, 1922-1991
Published: (1981)

How to draw poses in fashion = Comment dessiner les poses du monde de la mode = Modefigurine zeichnen = Poses uit de moder leren tekenen /
Published: (2011)

Talking shops : Detroit commercial folk art /
by: Clements, David, 1948-
Published: (2005)

Disce mori = Learne to die : A religious discourse, mouing euery Christian man to enter into a serious remembrance of his ende. Wherin also is contained the meane and manner of disposing himselfe to God, before, and at the time of his departure. In the whole, somewhat happily may be obserued, necessary to be thought vpon while we are aliue, and when we are dying, to aduise our selues and others.
by: Sutton, Christopher, 1565?-1629
Published: (1604)

20 figure painters and how they work : from the pages of American artist /
Published: (1979)

Scrawl too : more dirt.
Published: (2001)

Paint made flesh /
Published: (2009)

Encyclopédie méthodique. contenant, Io. Têtes antiques, ou iconographie; IIo. Costumes des différens peuples de l'antiquité, jusqu'au moyen-age; IIIo. Figures antiques, ou iconologie /
Published: (1804)

Painting western character studies : techniques in oil /
by: Dawley, Joseph
Published: (1975)

Off the walls : inspired re-creations of iconic artworks /
Published: (2020)

Nihon no zuzō : kachō no ishō = Flower, bird : traditional patterns in Japanese design /
Published: (2007)

Animal kingdom : design with animal aesthetics.
Published: (2015)

Art for architecture Ukraine : Soviet modernist mosaics from 1960 to 1990 /
by: Baitsym, Polina
Published: (2020)

Marks in place : contemporary responses to rock art /
Published: (1988)

Just imagine : ideas in painting /
by: Cumming, Robert, 1943-
Published: (1982)

Allocations : art for a natural and artificial environment /
Published: (1992)

The face of the nude : a study in beauty /
by: Brophy, John, 1899-1965
Published: (1968)

Pour comprendre la peinture de Giotto à Chagall /
by: Venturi, Lionello, 1885-1961
Published: (1950)