Gilles Neret

`Rzymianie nazywali go `diabolus`, Grecy `diabolos`, czyli oszczerca. W mitologii starożytnej złego ducha nazywano demon, od greckiego `daimon`. Piekło istniało bowiem od dawien dawna, w starożytnym Egipcie, Asyrii, w wierzeniach Żydów, Etrusków, na Dalekim Wschodzie, wszędzie tam, gdzie uznawano zasadę kary, mało precyzyjną zresztą, która miała...

The feminine world The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century-a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found-or...

Renowned among his contemporaries as one of the foremost painters of his era, Flemish baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) practically revolutionized northern European art. A shrewd businessman, international ambassador, passionate scholar, devout Catholic, and loving family man, Rubens-fluent in six languages, no less-cared about nothing...

This new and carefully conceived freedom marked not only the extraordinary significance of the painter and sculptor Matisse in the history of modern art, but also his influence, which was no less decisive than that of his main rival, Pablo Picasso. In fact, Matisse's stylistic liberation actually goes one step further in the pursuit of his own...

The feminine world The work of the great Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt's ornate art expresses the apocalyptic atmosphere of Vienna's upper middle-class society around the turn of the 20th century?a society devoted to the cultivation of aesthetic awareness and the cult of pleasure. The ecstatic joy which Klimt and his contemporaries found?or...

Goddess of the Automobile Age The changing aspects of femininity and masculinity Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) stood at the center of the sophisticated Paris art world of the 1920s and 30s. Her love for beautiful women, elegant automobiles, and the modern metropolis provided not only motifs for her pictures, but also influenced her artistic...