Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Love: From Botticelli to Kahlo

Love: From Botticelli to Kahlo

Finger, Brad

Hardcover

Series: Eternal Themes in Art

Art HistoryGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $29.99

ISBN10: 3791394673
ISBN13: 9783791394671
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
This fascinating gift book charts the many ways artists have represented the passionate bonds that shape human life -- from sacred devotion to erotic desire.

Transporting readers across centuries and cultures, this romantic volume pairs fifty artworks with brief, incisive essays that consider how love has been pictured, interpreted, and expressed in different media.

Each entry examines a single work -- ranging from early religious icons and Renaissance portraits to ornate Rococo scenes, modernist experimentations, and contemporary provocations. Moving through many registers of affection -- fidelity, enchantment, longing, sensual pleasure, heartbreak, and transcendence -- the selections unfold as a sequence of intimate encounters.

Readers are invited to consider a garden scene by Renoir, a Rococo tableau from Fragonard's Progress of Love series, Bronzino's charged allegory of Venus and Cupid, and Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Portrait, alongside masterpieces by Rodin, Klimt, Picasso, Chagall, Kahlo, and Abramovic--as well as many other artists whose works deepen and complicate the book's exploration of humanity's most powerful emotion.

  • Impeccably produced and extensively illustrated.
  • Features work by Botticelli, Rodin, Klimt, Picasso, Chagall and Kahlo.
  • Reflects on the context, atmosphere, and symbolism, of each artwork across two pages.
  • Captures ideas on how to represent the idea of love from antiquity to contemporary day.
  • Humanity's strongest, most enduring emotion represented in a delightful gift book.

Also from

Finger, Brad

View All

Also in

General Art

View All