Art Nouveau and the Secession Movements from Mucha to Klimt
In the last decade of the nineteenth century a new decorative language spread across Europe with a speed that surprised even its practitioners. Known…
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Essays on painting, sculpture, photography and the decorative arts, and on the artists, workshops and patrons behind them.
In the last decade of the nineteenth century a new decorative language spread across Europe with a speed that surprised even its practitioners. Known…
46 min read
In the summer of 1543 the Basel printer Johannes Oporinus issued a folio volume of more than six hundred pages under the title De…
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