Learn colored pencils the easy way with step-by-step projects for 20 beautiful blooms you can paint right in the book! Take a vibrant journey into botanical art with Colored Pencil Workbook: Fabulous Flowers. With 20 captivating projects, you can immerse yourself in the delicate beauty of nature, wielding colored pencils as your brushes. Each project offers step-by-step instructions, accompani…
There's far more to German food than sausages and beer. Discover the history and culture of Germany through its rich culinary traditions. Part of the Global Kitchen series, this book takes readers on a food tour of Germany, covering everything from daily staples to holiday specialties. In addition to discovering Germany's long culinary history, readers will learn about recent trends, foreign i…
Why has Louis XIV's Palace of Versailles, defining symbol of hedonistic opulence in 17th-century France and synonymous with the notion of the divine right of kings, continued to shape the aesthetics of cultural capital in the centuries since his death? In Versailles Mirrored, Robert Wellington tracks this enduring fascination with the Sun King's palace through eight case studies spanning the 1…
Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress…
Der Band erfasst erstmals das umfangreiche Gesamtwerk des aus Lauingen gebürtigen Malers Joseph Wengenmayr. Dieser prägte wie kein Zweiter zwischen 1747 und 1804 das künstlerische Geschehen in der Passerstadt. Zahlreiche Arbeiten wissen sich Augsburger Druckvorlagen verpflichtet. Zu seinem Oeuvre zählen W and- und Staffeleimalereien, Altar- und Vorsatzbilder, Kreuzwege, Fahnenblätter, bema…