Late nineteenth century Paris was a thriving, exciting place for artists, and Alphonse Mucha was the most celebrated artist working in the city. Everywhere you looked his posters and advertisement designs caught the eye and influenced popular culture. He was the favorite artist of the great actress Sarah Bernhardt and she contracted him for six years to design all her posters, costumes, set designs, programs, and more. However he was much more than just a phenomenally successful commercial artist, Mucha was also a painter of great epic compositions that celebrated his native Czech heritage. After being so very fashionable, in time his work inevitably came to be seen as old-fashioned and Mucha’s paintings disappeared from the mainstream until his work was rediscovered during the fad for Art Nouveau in the late 1960s. Since then his work has been treated with the respect it deserves and now it evokes turn of the century Paris with all its glamor and excitement, more than that of any other artist.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Book Begins . . .
• Alphonse Mucha 1860-1939
• Plate 1: Gismonda
• Plate 2: The Bulgarian Tsar Simeon
• Plate 3: The Coronation of the Serbian Tsar Stepan Dusan as East Roman Emperor
• Plate 4: After the Battle of Grunwaldu
• Plate 5: Mont Athos
• Plate 6: The Celebration of Svantovit
• Plate 7: The Meeting at Krizky
• Plate 8: Jan Milic of Kromeriz
• Plate 9: The Last Days of Jan Amos Komensky in Naarden
• Plate 10: Petr Chelcicky at Vodnany
• Plate 11: The Printing of the Bible of Kralice in Ivancice
• Plate 12: Luchon
• Plate 13: The Judgement of Paris
• Plate 14: Paul Gaugin in Mucha's Studio
• Plate 15: Autumn
• Plate 16: Biscuits Champagne Lefevre-Utile
• Plate 17: Buiscuits Lefevre-Utile
• Plate 18: The Lady of the Camellias
• Plate 19: Lorenzaccio
• Plate 20: Salammbo
• Plate 21: Spring
• Plate 22: Summer
• Plate 23: Winter
• Plate 24: Job
• Plate 25: Lance Parfum Rodo
• Plate 26: The Introduction of the Slavonic Liturgy
• Plate 27: Defense of Sziget against the Turks by Nicholas Zrinsky
• Plate 28: The Bohemian King Premysl Otakar II
• Plate 29: Master Jan Hus Preaching at the Bethlehem Chapel V Kapli Betlemske
• Plate 30: The Hussite King Jiri of Podebrad
• Plate 31: After the Battle of Vitkov
• Plate 32: The Oath of Omladina under the Slavic Linden Tree
• Plate 33: Fruit
• Plate 34: Monaco Monte Carlo
• Plate 35: Reverie
• Plate 36: F. Champenois Imprimeur-Editeur
• Plate 37: Bieres de la Meuse
• Plate 38: La Plume
• Plate 39: La Trappistine
• Plate 40: Nestle's Food for Infants
• Plate 41: Medea
• Plate 42: The Rose
• Plate 43: Job Cigarette Papers
• Plate 44: Benedictine
• Plate 45: Dance
• Plate 46: Painting
• Plate 47: Poetry
• Plate 48: Music
• Plate 49: Rose
• Plate 50: Iris
• Plate 51: Carnation
• Plate 52: Lily
• Plate 53: Model Posing in Mucha's Studio
• Plate 54: Hamlet
• Plate 55: Moet and Chandon Cremant Imperial
• Plate 56: Moet and Chandon White Star
• Plate 57: Morning Awakening
• Plate 58: Brightness of Day
• Plate 59: Evening Contemplation
• Plate 60: Night's Rest
• Plate 61: Ivy
• Plate 62: Laurel
• Plate 63: Heidsieck and Co.
• Plate 64: Design for Documents Decoratifs Plate 72
• Plate 65: Heather from Coastal Cliffs
• Plate 66: Cycles Perfecta
• Plate 67: The Red Cape
• Plate 68: St Louis World's Fair
• Plate 69: Moravian Teachers' Choir
• Plate 70: The Slavs in Their Original Homeland
• Plate 71: Lottery of National Unity
• Plate 72: The Abolition of Serfdom in Russia
• Plate 73: Girl with Loose Hair and Tulips
• Plate 74: The Apotheosis of the Slavs
• Plate 75: Woman with a Burning Candle
• Plate 76: Seated Woman with Coffee Cup
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