Louvre Art Deck

100 Masterpieces from the World's Most Popular Museum

Contributors

Photographs by Erich Lessing

By Anja Grebe

On Sale
Apr 15, 2014
Page Count
100 pages
ISBN-13
9781579129651

Beautiful and informative, this exquisite card deck is the perfect way to experience 100 art masterpieces from one of the most spectacular collections in the world.

Based on the best-selling book The Vatican: All the Paintings, The Vatican Art Deck highlights 100 of the iconic and significant masterpieces housed in the Vatican into an elegant and convenient card deck. Included are world-renowned works of art such as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, frescos from the Raphael rooms, the works of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Titian, and Caravaggio, as well as the world’s finest statues, manuscripts, architecture, and gardens, and its most precious religious relics. Each 6 x 6 inch card features a full-size photograph of the painting on one side and the other includes text by art historian Anja Grebe on the key attributes of the work, what to look for when viewing the painting, the artist’s inspirations and techniques, biographical information on the artist, and more.

Perfect for students, art lovers, and armchair travelers alike, The Louvre Art Deck is a unique way to enjoy and learn about the greatest works of the great master artists.

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$25.99

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$32.99 CAD

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Erich Lessing

About the Photographer

Erich Lessing was an Austrian photographer who documented the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive, which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world. His work has been featured globally and produced around sixty books. In 2013 he donated 60,000 images to the archives of the Austrian National Library. Lessing died in August 2018.

Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She has taken part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is also the author of The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.
 

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Anja Grebe

About the Author

Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She has taken part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is also the author of The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.

Erich Lessing was an Austrian photographer who documented the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive, which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world. His work has been featured globally and produced around sixty books. In 2013 he donated 60,000 images to the archives of the Austrian National Library. Lessing died in August 2018.

Vincent Pomarede is a heritage curator and was the director of the Department of Paintings of the Louvre Museum from 2003 to 2014. Currently, he is the deputy general director of the museum.
 

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