{"product_id":"love-isbn-9783791394671","title":"Love:From Botticelli to Kahlo. Eternal Themes in Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis fascinating book charts the many ways artists have represented the passionate bonds that shape human life—from sacred devotion to erotic desire.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransporting readers across centuries and cultures, this volume pairs fifty artworks with brief, incisive essays that consider how love has been pictured, interpreted, and expressed in different media.\u003cbr\u003eEach entry examines a single work—ranging from early religious icons and Renaissance portraits to ornate Rococo scenes, modernist experimentations, and contemporary provocations—and reflects on the atmosphere, symbolism, and cultural setting of each artwork. Moving through many registers of affection—fidelity, enchantment, longing, sensual pleasure, heartbreak, and transcendence—the selections unfold as a sequence of intimate encounters.\u003cbr\u003eReaders 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 Abramović—as well as many other artists whose works deepen and complicate the book’s exploration of humanity’s most powerful emotion.\u003cbr\u003eImpeccably produced and extensively illustrated, this exquisite volume offers a layered study of love’s complexity, revealing how artists working in many forms have given shape to an emotion that is universal, elusive, and continually reinterpreted. | \u003cb\u003eBRAD FINGER \u003c\/b\u003eis an art historian based near Chicago, Illinois.","brand":"Prestel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759477666021,"sku":"NP9783791394671","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9783791394671.jpg?v=1775598703","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/love-isbn-9783791394671","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}