Mucha Ilsee: 48 Full-Color Plates from Mucha's Art Nouveau Masterpiece

by Alphonse Mucha

...the opulent illustrations for French novelist Robert des Fler's Ilsee, Princess de Tripoli. Mucha's love for medieval and Byzantine settings ...his pictorial blend of innocence and sensuality...made him perfectly suited to conceive and execute the richly atmospheric, highly evocative Ilsee illustrations. --book jacket

Genres: Art

48 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1984

About the author

Alfons Maria Mucha, 24 July 1860 – 14 July 1939), known as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech painter, illustrator and graphic artist, living in Paris during the Art Nouveau period, best known for his distinctly stylized and decorative theatrical posters of Sarah Bernhardt. He produced illustrations, advertisements, decorative panels and designs which became among the best-known images of the period.

Reviews

[Monica · Rating 4 out of 5]

I searched hard for the correct cover and settled for a page from de Fer's book.