格雷厄姆·雷诺兹曾是伦敦维多利亚与艾尔伯特博物馆印刷和绘画部的管理员，他自1937年起就在该博物馆工作。作者的其他著作包括《英国微型画像》和《水彩画简史》，以及关于托马斯·比尤伊克和维多利亚时期叙事画家的论著及约翰·康斯太布尔作品的分类目录。

Perhaps the best-loved English romantic painter, Turner became known as the painter of light.A" The use of brilliant watercolour characterizes his numerous landscapes. Travelling throughout Europe, Turner captured the vitality of urban and pastoral scenes. As he developed his technique, his paintings took on the quality of pure luminescence, paving the way for the Impressionis...(展开全部)

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The Confessions of Nat Turner is nar...(展开全部)

In the late summer of 1831, in a remote section of southeastern Virginia, there took place the only effective, sustained revolt in the annals of American Negro slavery... The revolt was led by a remarkable Negro preacher named Nat Turner, an educated slave who felt himself divinely ordained to annihilate all the white people in the region. The Confessions of Nat Turner is nar...(展开全部)

Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. This quote from Andrew Graham Dixon describes the book: 'Spanning continents and millennia, ranging from man's earliest cave paintings to the works of Picasso and beyond, this is a hugely ambitious book. But thanks to the breadth of the...(展开全部)

Since its first publication this book has been hailed as the most up-to-date and wide-ranging history of art ever published in a single volume. This quote from Andrew Graham Dixon describes the book: 'Spanning continents and millennia, ranging from man's earliest cave paintings to the works of Picasso and beyond, this is a hugely ambitious book. But thanks to the breadth of the...(展开全部)

Hugh Honour 修・昂纳 当代著名的艺术史学者，毕业于剑桥圣凯萨琳学院（St Catherine's College），他是英国皇家文学院和大不列颠学院院士。著有：《中国印象》（The Vistion of Cathay，1961年）；《威尼斯指南》（The COmpanion Guide to Venice，1965年；1990年，第三版）；《新古典主义》（Neo-classism，1968年，第二版，1977年）；《浪漫主义》（Romantism，1979年）。他于1976年为华盛顿的国家美术馆和克夫兰美术馆等备美国建国两百周年展；《欧洲眼中的美国》（The European Vision of America）。他的著作《西方艺术史中的黑人形象：从美国独立革命到第一次世界大战》（The Image of the Black in Wes...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties...(展开全部)

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William Styron's ambitious and stunningly accomplished novel is Turner's confession, made to his jailers under the duress of his God. Encompasses the betrayals, cruelties...(展开全部)