Colin T. Eisler Livres

Including many of the paintings acquired by Catherine the Great as well as others added more recently, this book features paintings from 18th- and 19th-century France, works of the Italian Renaissance, Spanish paintings and paintings from England, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium and the USA.

Selects depictions of animals from the multi-media works of Albrecht Durer and explains their mythic, religious, and social meanings