For art lovers everywhere, "Secret Lives of Great Artists" will teach you about the seamy and the heroic, the steamy and the gritty history behind the great masters of international art. You can learn about the artists behind all your favourite artworks - and the works they've inspired: Michelangelo had such repellent body odour that his assistants couldn't stand working for hi...(展开全部)

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art. Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello, Brunelleschi, Ghiberti, and Ma...(展开全部)

乔治・瓦萨里（Giolgi Vasarl，1511一1574），意大利作家、画家和建筑师。瓦萨里生于阿雷佐。自幼学习艺术，后赴佛罗伦萨，在安德烈亚・德尔・萨尔托的作坊里干活，受到梅迪奇家族的保护。瓦萨里遗世的主要绘画作品，是佛罗伦萨老宫和罗马梵蒂冈宫内的壁画。作为建筑师，瓦萨里是同时代伟大的米开朗琪罗的追随者。他设计的重要建筑有佛罗伦萨乌菲齐宫（现为博物馆）、比萨和阿雷佐的若干宫殿和教堂。但是，他对艺术史的主要贡献是他的意大利文艺复兴时期重要艺术家的传记。

The unforgettable, unknown history of colors and the vivid stories behind them in a beautiful multi-colored volume “Beautifully written . . . Full of anecdotes and fascinating research, this elegant compendium has all the answers.” —NPR, Best Books of 2017 The Secret Lives of Color tells the unusual stories of seventy-five fascinating shades, dyes and hues. From blonde to ginge...(展开全部)

作者： 佐雅·阿格尼丝，是童书作家桑玛·弗朗西斯的笔名，出生于德国柏林。她的《珠穆朗玛峰》一书被儿童图书理事会（2019年）评选为“杰出科学书籍”，并在2019年博洛尼亚国际童书展上获得特别提名。除了作家身份外，她还是一名图书编辑，与英国多家知名出版社有着亲密合作。 绘者： 亚历山大·乌特金，俄罗斯插画家、漫画艺术家、设计师和音乐家。2006年毕业于莫斯科国立印刷艺术大学，获艺术硕士学位。他的绘画灵感主要来源于动画、动漫和电影（如迪斯尼、宫崎骏、诺兰等）、电视连续剧（如《辛普森一家》）。

史蒂芬•法辛，画家，伦敦艺术大学鲁特斯坦•霍普金斯基金绘画研究教授。1990年当选为牛津大学拉斯金绘画学院院长兼牛津圣•埃德蒙学院高级研究员。1998年当选为伦敦皇家艺术学会成员。他最初求学于伦敦圣•马丁艺术学院，于伦敦皇家艺术学院完成绘画硕士学位，自1977年一直从事美术教育。法辛的画作在全球各地都有展出，尤其是在英国、日本和南美洲的画廊。

For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874--1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels -- several of which are now established classics -- Maugham expertly concealed a private life. Predominantly homosexual, and deeply in love with the charming but dissolute G...(展开全部)

For nearly sixty years Somerset Maugham (1874--1965) was one of the most famous writers in the world. An enormously successful playwright and the author of over a hundred short stories and twenty-one novels -- several of which are now established classics -- Maugham expertly concealed a private life. Predominantly homosexual, and deeply in love with the charming but dissolute G...(展开全部)

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and ...(展开全部)

In the new edition of this highly successful book, Harold Schonberg has traced the consecutive line of composers from Claudio Monteverdi to the tonalists of the 1990s through a series of fascinating biographical chapters. Music, the author contends, is a continually evolving art, and there have been no geniuses, however, great, who have not been influenced by their predecessors...(展开全部)