Bringing the famed Parisian illustrator to light, this biography centers on Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, who studied at the prestigious Royal Academy but failed to win the coveted Prix de Rome. The study relates that the subject reacted to this disappointment by throwing aside all hopes of a traditional artistic career and hastening out into the thoroughfares of Paris to sketch everything in sight, living an errant, bohemian existence and succumbing increasingly to an obsession with drawing. Detailed and engaging, this recollection demonstrates that, despite his personal eccentricities, Saint-Aubin was employed as an artist all his life.

Gabriel De Saint : Aubin 1724-1780

Arts & Photography

Bailey, Colin B.

ROSENBERG, Pierre

de Beaumont, Kim

Folds McCullagh, Suzanne

Leribault, Christophe

History & Criticism

Somogy Art Publishers

The Louvre is home to the largest collection in the world of sculptures by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-18281). Its range, quality and versatility make this collection a wonderful showcase

Houdon at the Louvre: Masterworks of the Enlightenment

Scherf, Guilhem

Karine Arabian, a third-generation Armenian fashion designer, has been designing accessories under her own name since 2001: jewelers, shoes and bags, some of which were essentially crafted in Armenia. This book is also the occasion to remember the Armenian families who settled in Marseilles in the 17th century, where they ran a thriving silk trade, and to take a look at the community?s vital role in fashion design in France, from the 1930s to fashion icon names of today such as Alain Mikli, K. Jacques, Stephane Kelian and Alain Manoukian etc. The book contains essays by Florence M ller on Arabian's codes, brand image, client portraits and style genealogy, various specialists describe Armenians in Marseille from 1 600 - 1915, Armenians in fashion from 1922 - 2007 and wardrobe master Sergu

Karine Arabian: The Armenians in Fashion 17th–21st Centuries

Richoux, Sylvie

Individual Artists

Offering a synthesis of everything known about perfume-making and cosmetics, this extensive reference is written by some 60 world-renowned specialists and encompasses all areas and civilizations. It is organized according to a Western chronology (antiquity, middle ages, modern and contemporary ages) and divided into five sections, one for each continent.

Perfume: A Global History

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Pouy, Jean-Bernard

Beauty, Grooming, & Style

Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, 1724–1780

This catalogue brings together the incredible artwork of Garry Hill and Gerry Judah. Hill, exploring the interrelationships between language, image, identity and the body, thoroughly exploits the capacity of video to offer complex non-linear narratives. Judah, one of the leading installation artists in the UK, challenges the boundaries between painting and sculpture, and crosses cultural, political and religious divides. In comparing the latest works of these powerful artists, this unique book offers a fascinating look at the terrifying ability of the human race to destroy itself through war and environmental destruction.

Gerry Judah and Gary Hill

ZELDIN, Théodore

Blyth, Jenny

Whether applied to portrait, stately monuments, sculptures or religious artifacts, there is in France a very strong and very old tradition, combined to exceptional know-how, when it comes to using bronze as material. This craftsmanship reached its pinnacle between the XVIth and the XVIIIth century. This golden age of French bronze was fueled by a large number of commissions, and most notably royal ones. The result of extensive research by the world?s best specialists of the subject, this book will whisk its readers for a journey into the Great Century and the age of enlightenment, under the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XVI, to discover technical gems and sumptuous pieces from the world?s leading institutions, such as the Louvre, the MET or The British royal collections.

Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution

Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève

This large volume accompanies a major exhibition at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco which focuses, for the first time, on Egypt's queens. The book contains a well-illustrated catalogue of the objects displayed, including visual portrayals of queens, objects owned by queens, objects related to the exercise of royal power, and inscriptions. It also, however, contains a substantial amount of entirely new research, with fifteen essays forming the remainder of the book. Topics include the archaeology of palaces and tombs, the harem, portraying the queen, the religious role of the queen, the exercise of power, and Egyptian queens in myth and popular perception.

Queens of Egypt: From Hetepheres to Cleopatra

Ziegler, Christine

Nick Tosches discovered Thierry Alonso Gravleur's paintings in one of the major Los Angeles art galleries. He was immediately stricken by the strength of Gravleur's expressionist works which almost obsessively explore the human face: Gravleur is capable of rendering a face like no-one since Rembrandt and of capturing a soul like no-one since Bosch. Both artists meet and unsurprisingly decide to work together. They share the same vision of a humanity torn between idealization and pulsing. The result matches each artist's talent: Tosches' words echo Gravleur's drawings; Gravleur's drawings and paintings illustrate Tosches' words.

Never Trust a Loving God: Connoisseur's Gallery

TOSCHES, Nick

Gravleur

This book accompanies an exhibition at the Louvre. It is dedicated to the life, career and scientific legacy of Breguet, the celebrated clockmaker, physicist and inventor. He a master in his art, solicited by the most exclusive clients of his time such as Marie-Antoinette, Napoleon, Josephine and Talleyrand. Breguet initiated modern watch-making by inventing a series of mechanisms patented in his name, which include the most famous tourbillon clock and the self-winding mechanism especially conceived for Marie-Antoinette. This most famous watch, finished after Marie-Antoinette's death only, had disappeared for centuries. It was found under mysterious circumstances a few weeks ago only and is represented for the first time in this book.

Breguet: The Climax of European Horology

Winter, George

Bascou, Marc

BREGUET, Emmanuel

Dion, Anne

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