A straightforward guide to understanding great artworks

Imagine having 5,000 years of human history’s most amazing artworks at your fingertips!

Go on a trip through the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art without ever leaving your home! Prepare…

This lavishly illustrated hardback presents the life and work of Paul Klee - a gifted artist whose experimentation with color and abstraction made him a key figure in the development…

From Surfing to the Secret Life of Rats, Extreme Science will excite and inspire 8-11 year olds. High-interest topics grab the reader and introduce some key science concepts in an…

An account of the painter Claude Monet, one of the key founders of the Impressionist movement and arguably the most influential painter of modern times. It tells the story of…

A sumptuous illustrated biography, history and gallery of the acclaimed artist of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Gives you an understanding of the ways in which modern art differs from realistic works of earlier centuries. This book examines 100 works of modern art that have attracted critical…

An authoritative history of the rise and fall of the Knights Templar, from their rapid progression from humble men of the Cross to powerful warrior-monks, and to their arrest, persecution…