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Great paintings : [the world's masterpieces explored and explained]
Title:
Great paintings : [the world's masterpieces explored and explained]
Other Title:
Paintings
Subtitle on cover: World's masterpieces explored and explained
Year Published:
2011
Physical Description:
256 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Edition:
1st American ed.
Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
1100-1500. The Qingming scroll / Zhang Zeduan ; The lamentation of Christ / Giotto di Bondone ; The Madonna enthroned / Duccio di Buoninsegna ; The annunciation / Fra Angelico ; The Arnolfini portrait / Jan van Dyck ; The baptism of Christ / Piero della Francesca ; The hunt in the forest / Paolo Uccello ; The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli -- 1500-1600. The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch ; Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci ; The school of Athens / Raphael ; Sistine Chapel ceiling / Michelangelo ; Bacchus and Ariadne / Titian ; The ambassadors / Hans Holbein ; Spring morning in the Han Palace / Qiu Ying ; Netherlandish proverbs / Pieter Bruegel the elder ; Spring / Giuseppe Arcimboldo ; Cypress tree / Kano Eitoku ; Akbar's adventures with the elephant Hawa'i in 1561 / Basawan and Chetar -- 1600-1700. David with the head of Goliath / Caravaggio ; The judgment of Paris / Peter Paul Rubens ; Charles I on horseback / Anthony van Dyck ; Self-portrait as "La Pittura" / Artemisia Gentileschi ; Las meninas / Diego Velázquez ; Self-portrait / Rembrandt van Rijn ; The art of painting / Johannes Vermeer -- 1700-1800. Still life with flowers and fruit / Jan van Huysum ; Marriage à-la-mode : the marriage settlement / William Hogarth ; Allegory of the planets and continents / Giambattista Tiepolo ; An experiment on a bird in the air pump / Joseph Wright of Derby ; The death of Marat / Jacques-Louis David -- 1800-1900. The Valpinçon bather / Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres ; The third of May 1808 / Francisco de Goya ; Wanderer above the sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich ; The hay wain / John Constable ; The fighting Temeraire / J.M.W. Turner ; The artist's studio / Gustave Courbet ; Olympia / Édouard Manet ; Arrangement in grey and black, no. 1 / James McNeill Whistler ; The dancing class / Edgar Degas ; A Sunday on La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat ; Van Gogh's chair / Vincent van Gogh ; The child's bath / Mary Cassatt ; Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / Paul Gauguin ; The waterlily
ISBN:
9780756686758
Publisher:
London ; New York, N.Y. : DK Pub., 2011.