Gustav Klimt

ISBN 978-0-89236-968-3

An artist's materials—the bold brushstrokes of a Van Gogh oil painting

In this richly illustrated tale

"Conservators Lance Mayer and Gay Myers present a wealth of technical information amid amusing anecdotes and eccentric artistic profiles

Jan Steen: The Drawing Lesson CONS Gustav KlimtJohn Walsh Clear, solid, palpable, this is the world of the Dutch painters of the seventeenth centurya world in which the surfaces and scenes of everyday life are rendered with impeccable care and illuminated by clear, soft light. Through the countless reproductions of the works of painters like de Hooch and Vermeer, these scenes have become intimately familiar: servants at their kitchen chores; women reading, daydreaming, or playing music; risqu and