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The Kunstmuseum Bern owns one of the most important art collections in Switzerland. Since the foundation of the Staatliche Kunstsammlung in Bern in 1809 and the opening of the first museum building in 1879 the collection has grown continuously and ha...

A revolutionary 'virtual' museum with easy-to-navigate, colour-coded galleries and rooms Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book – from pre-historic times to the present, – over 1,600 artworks c...

The Centre Pompidou in Paris houses one of the greatest collections of twentieth century photography in the world. This book comprises a comprehensive catalogue of the collection, 350 photographs by 283 of the most famous artists and photographers to...

In line with best-selling The Louvre: All the Paintings, and Rizzoli's successful The Hermitage Collections and The Barnes Foundation: Masterworks, this title offers an exquisite tour, unique in its lavish illustration, scholarship, extent, and g...

Yves Saint Laurent was more than a designer of clothing – he was, for many, one of the great style arbiters of the twentieth century. His talent made him the youngest and brightest star in the firmament of fashion, first with Christian Dior, wh...

Using both text and superb color photography, this book describes the most famous and impressive museums in the world: Prado in Madrid, National Gallery in London, Muse"e du Louvre in Paris, Museum of Modern Art in New York and many more.

The photographic collection of the Museum Ludwig Cologne is one of the most important collections of contemporary photography in the world. This book provides a fascinating insight into its rich diversity: conceptual art, abstraction, reportage - abo...

Taschen 25th Anniversary Series   The history of photography began some 150 years ago, but only relatively recently has it been fully recognised as a medium in its own right. Cologne's Museum Ludwig was the first museum of contemporary art to devot...

The basic tenet of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) was to "suffuse all areas of life with art". This also applied to objects in everyday use. The German Blade Museum boasts the world's biggest cutlery collection. Vol. I of the Museum...

This book deals with the peoples and traditions of Siberia. It will interest a wide range of people as it is a book on art, sociology and history. Documents discovered recently in the hidden backrooms of St Petersburg’s Ethnological Museum have prov...

The exquisite objects created by goldsmith and jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé and his studio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the aristocracy and nobility of imperial Russia are considered to be some of the most refined examples of th...

263 illustrations. Anton Pössenbacher (1842–1920), cabinet-maker to the Bavarian court in Munich, was head of one of the largest late 19th-century German makers of luxury furnishings. His furniture, especially those for King Ludwig II of Bavaria (18...

A grand tour of the premier art collections of Italy would require an 1000-mile trip from Milan to Rome over to Venice and down to Naples-and then back to Florence-and long hours in line). Now Italy's foremost art publisher has brought these eight ar...

The creation of this important and lavishly illustrated book involved gathering material from all the major museums in Russia and abroad, as well as from public and private archives. It is a remembrance of things past and a testimonial to a great cul...

The Thyssen - Bornemisza Collection is one of the most important private collections of western art, comprising 780 works from the Middle Ages through to the 1970s. Opened in Madrid in 1992, this extraordinary museum provides an encyclopaedic overvie...