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Meet the Queen. The public and private life of the world’s most famous monarch Born in 1926, married in 1947, crowned as Queen in 1953, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has carried out her duty for more than six decades. TASCHEN cele...

Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Queen. The extraordinary public and private life of the world’s most famous monarch This tribute, published on the occasion of the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II — 60 years on the throne &mdas...

Devil in the details. The symbols, monsters, and morals of a Netherlandish radical A bird-monster devouring sinners, naked bodies in tantric contortions, a pair of ears brandishing a sharpened blade: with nightmarish details and fantastical painte...

Renaissance radical. The haunting visions of Hieronymus Bosch Take home one of the most cult artists in history with this handy Bibliotheca Universalis edition, presenting all known works of Hieronymus Bosch. Through full spreads and carefully cur...

Renaissance radical. An earthly delight not to be missed In the midst of the realist-leaning artistic climate of the Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) was more than an anomaly. Bosch&rsq...

Renaissance radical. The haunting visions of Hieronymus Bosch Only 20 paintings and eight drawings are confidently assigned to Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) but in their fantastical visions they have secured...

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...

Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century an...

Orient Expressed. The master of Japanese ukiyo-e Hiroshige was one of the last great artists of ukiyo-e, the woodblock print genre that flourished between the 17th and 19th century and did much to determine the world’s visual concept of Japa...

Station to Station. A historic trail through the heart of Japan, as told by two legendary woodblock artists This XXL edition reprints Keisai Eisen and Utagawa Hiroshige’s legendary series The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō, a stunni...

Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world", ukiyo-e refers to the famous Japanese woodblock print genre that originated in the 17th century and is practically synonymous with the Western world’s visual characterization of Japa...

City lights and cherry trees. The woodblock prints of Tokyo that captured Europe's imagination Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning “pictures of the floating wo...

Views of 19th-Century Tokyo. Images of a city between visual poetry and idealized reality From verdant panoramas to decadent pleasure quarters: Utagawa Hiroshige’s final masterpiece, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, is a woodblock journey th...

It all started around 1900, and wouldn`t you know the French were the first? Whether you call them men`s sophisticates, nudie books, or girly magazines, this long-ignored art form has a rich international history. Author Dian Hanson, a girly magazine...

Data Trails. An XL-sized compendium on the history of knowledge From cosmic charts and da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man to the New York subway map: trace the history of visual data from the Middle Ages to the digital era in this XL compendium. Featu...