Included in the Discovering Art Series, The Life, Times and Work of Claude Monet provides an accessible introduction to Monet's life and work and his important role in establishing French Impressionism. Illustrations in the book chart Monet's progression from the creation of light and space by painting outdoors – plien-air – to his final near abstract paintings of water lilies at his famous Giverny home where he moved in 1883, remaining there until his death at a venerable 86 in 1926.To fu...

The Life, Times and Work of Auguste Renoir, an eBook in the Discovering Art series, provides an accessible illustrated introduction to the life and work of Renoir. The book details his life including his time spent at the studio of Charles Gleyre alongside his fellow impressionists Monet, Sisley and Bazille. Richly illustrated, the book includes the impressionist paintings done in his 30s and 40s such as La Loge and On the Terrace as well as his final masterpiece The Bathers, completed sho...

The work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh was ground-breaking in his own time and still inspires and influences much of the art world today. This beautifully illustrated book captures the excitement and vitality of his art, presenting a fascinating insight into the life of one of the world's most celebrated designers. High-quality reproductions of some of his most important and lesser-known work, bring to life one of Britain's greatest artistic eras. 2018 will mark the 150th anniversary of his...

A founder of French Impressionist painting and the most prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, Claude Monet created a large body of works, developing his own method of producing repeated studies of the same motif in a series, whilst changing canvases with the shift in light. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive ...

A scholarly, passionate and brilliantly-written biography of Pablo Picasso by Patrick O’Brian, the famous author of the much-loved Aubrey-Maturin series, reissued in a stunning new cover.Patrick O’Brian’s outstanding biography of Picasso explores comprehensively the life of this awe-inspiring artist. Enormously productive and hugely successful, Picasso continues to attract avid, insatiable public interest. O’Brian was a close friend and a neighbour of Picasso’s, and the book reflec...

Coco Chanel, without question probably the most famous fashion designer of all time, was named by Time magazine one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. Her life was filled with trauma, romance, intrigue, and scandal, but her business acumen and groundbreaking talent (along with funding by her paramours) took her far beyond her humble beginnings. Chanel understood how to get what she wanted from life and never hesitated to pursue the grandest of visions. Her designs brok...

The secret smart travelers turn to when facing a dizzying choice of what to do and see is to establish their own personal relationship with a city. Bonjour, Paris.

We all know the famous national museums of Europe, the Louvre, Prado and British Museum. But more alluring and entertaining are the many small, quirky museums that are scattered across the continent. Visiting them provides a direct link back to an earlier age, when travelers on the Grand Tour to Europe sought out Cabinets of Wonders filled with unique art and marvelous relics.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy’s parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Lévy brothers’ workshop, where he was to learn to paint porcelain. Renoir’s younger brother Edmond had this to say this about the move: “From what he drew in charcoal on the walls, they concluded that he had the ability for an artist’s profession. That was how our parents came to put him to learn the trade of porcelain painter.” One of the Lévys’ w...

Our illustrated travel guide will take you to Corsica, the French island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of France and west of Italy. Corsica was "often conquered, never subdued" and has been successively Pisan and Genovese but has been French since 1768 and it enjoys a special constitutional status. A mountain in the sea, Corsica is also called the island of beauty. The diversity of its scenery, as well as the non-intrusiveness of its development and tourism, m...

The innovative works of the Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne laid the foundations of a new and radically different form of art in the twentieth century. Challenging the conventional values of art in his time, Cézanne’s insistence on personal expression and the integrity of the painting itself, regardless of subject matter, have since earned him universal praise among his fellow artists, with Matisse and Picasso calling him "the father of us all." Delphi’s Masters of Art Se...

Gustave Caillebotte was a French Impressionist, though he painted in a more realistic style than many other Impressionists. In common with his precursors Millet and Courbet Caillebotte tried to paint reality as it existed and as he saw it. Perhaps because of his close relationship with so many of his peers, his style and technique varies considerably among his works, as if "borrowing" and experimenting, but not really sticking to any one style. His work may have been strongly in...