art book cologne GmbH & Co. KG
Deutzer Freiheit 107
50679 Köln
Germany
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Monday to Friday 8 – 17
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Phone: +49 221 800 80 80
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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Publisher | Prestel |
Year | 2014 |
Cover | Hardcover with dust jacket |
Language | English |
ISBN | 978-3-7913-4920-6 |
Pages | 176 |
Weight | 1062 g |
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Author(s) | Éléa Baucheron, Diane Routex |
Article ID | art-18101 |
Art and mystery collide in this fascinating look at the secrets behind some of the world’s most important masterpieces and their creators. Who was the model for Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring? How were the Nazca Lines, the giant drawings scrawled across Peru’s desert coast, created? Why is Botticelli’s Birth of Venus an ingenious example of mathematic computation?
Traveling across centuries and continents, this collection of 40 enigmatic artworks and artists examines secrets that have confounded experts and amateurs alike. Presented in beautiful color spreads, each work or artist is profiled in an absorbing and accessible commentary that draws on the latest research. While some of these mysteries have been solved, many others continue to stump even the most learned scholars.
Find out what they know—and what they don’t—in this compelling collection that will deepen readers’ appreciation of some of the world’s most recognizable masterpieces.