Explore the landscapes and places that inspired great art: find peace in Monet’s lily-filled garden oasis, climb Mount Fuji on a printmaker’s pilgrimage, sail with Gauguin to the South Pacific to stretch your imagination, or contemplate light and the changing seasons on Chelsea Embankment.

Artistic Places is a stunningly hand-illustrated, visionary guide for seekers of beauty, rare tales and cultural riches. Find yourself instantly transported to the places where great artists have sought refuge, found their inspiration and changed the course of art history forever.

Susie Hodge, bestselling author and art historian, presents 25 famous and forgotten artistic destinations around the world, and connects these to the artists they inspired. In keeping with the Inspired Traveller’s Guide series design, each entry is accompanied by specially commissioned illustrations from Amy Grimes which perfectly evoke the wonders that first attracted the masters, while Hodge delves into each location's curious history with insightful stories both in and beyond the canon. So take a leaf out of your favourite artist’s sketchbook and discover the places they loved best.

Artists and locations include: J. A. M Whistler • in London, England

- John Constable • in Suffolk, England - Barbara Hepworth • in St Ives, England - Paula Rego • in Cascais and Estoril, Portugal - Pablo Picasso • and Guernica, Spain - Salvador Dalí • in Catalonia, Spain - Claude Monet • in Giverny, France - Vincent van Gogh • in Arles, France - Rene Magritte • in Brussels, Belgium - Paul Klee • in Bern, Switzerland - Michelangelo • in Florence, Italy - Canaletto • in Venice, Italy - Johannes Vermeer • in Delft, Netherlands - Anni Albers • in Dessau, Germany - Caspar David Friedrich • in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, Germany - Gustav Klimt • and Lake Attersee, Austria - Edvard Munch • in Oslo, Norway - Hilma af Klint • and Lake Mälaren, Sweden - Henri Matisse • in Tangier, Morocco - Hokusai • on Mount Fuji, Japan - Paul Gauguin • in Papeete and Papeari, Tahiti - Jean-Michel Basquiat • in New York, USA - Grant Wood • in Iowa, USA - Georgia O’Keeffe • in New Mexico, USA - Frida Kahlo • in Coyoacán, Mexico

Each book in the Inspired Traveller's Guides series offers readers a fascinating, informative and charmingly illustrated guide to must-visit destinations round the globe. Also from this series, explore intriguing: Spiritual Places, Literary Places, Hidden Places and Mystical Places.

© 2021 White Lion Publishing (E-bog): 9780711254541

Release date

E-bog: 16. februar 2021