This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Maria Tsaneva contains 106 selected paintings and drawings of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Though he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest inheritance. A man profoundly respectful of the past, he assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style...

Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of landscapes of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching. Much of Canaletto's early artwork was painted "from nature," differing from the then customary practice of completing paintings in the studio. Some of his later works do revert to this custom, as suggested by the tendency for distant figures to be painted as blobs of colour - an effect produced by using a camera obscura, which blurs farther-away objects. His early works remain his most coveted and, according to many authorities, his best. One of...

This Art Book with Foreword and annotated reproductions by Maria Tsaneva contains 117 selected paintings and drawings of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. Rossetti's art was characterized by its sensuality and its medieval revivalism. His early poetry was influenced by John Keats. He is considered one of the most unconventional painters of the 19th century. Through his methods, he distinguished himself from the Pre-Raphaelite movement; he showed no interest on the exact representation of details, avoided complicated...