Louvre Art Deck 100 Masterpieces from the World's Most Popular Museum

Beautiful and informative, this exquisite card deck is the perfect way to experience 100 art masterpieces from one of the most spectacular collections in the world.

Based on the best-selling book The Vatican: All the Paintings, The Vatican Art Deck highlights 100 of the iconic and significant masterpieces housed in the Vatican into an elegant and convenient card deck. Included are world-renowned works of art such as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, frescos from the Raphael rooms, the works of Giotto, Fra Angelico, Titian, and Caravaggio, as well as the world's finest statues, manuscripts, architecture, and gardens, and its most precious religious relics. Each 6 x 6 inch card features a full-size photograph of the painting on one side and the other includes text by art historian Anja Grebe on the key attributes of the work, what to look for when viewing the painting, the artist's inspirations and techniques, biographical information on the artist, and more.

Perfect for students, art lovers, and armchair travelers alike, The Louvre Art Deck is a unique way to enjoy and learn about the greatest works of the great master artists.

Erich Lessing has been documenting the culture and fine arts of Europe and the Near East for more than fifty years. He is arguably today's leading independent photographer of the arts in the Western World. He created the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archive which is an extensive image library featuring over 40,000 high resolution images from over 500 museums and private collections throughout the world, including a thorough coverage of such institutions as The Louvre and the Muséd'Orsay in Paris, the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, the Uffizi in Florence, the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the Prado in Madrid, and many more. Having worked as a photographer all over the world for more than six decades, he has published more than forty books with his art photography. He lives in Vienna and travels regularly to Paris and other art capitals of the world.

Anja Grebe teaches art history at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. She has taken part in numerous international research projects and exhibitions and has published extensively on medieval and modern art history. Grebe is also the author of The Vatican: All the Paintings. She lives in Erlangen, Germany.