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50 paintings you should know / Kristina Lowis, Tamsin Pickeral.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: New York, NY : Prestel Pub., 2009.Description: 173 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9783791341989
Other title:
  • Fifty paintings you should know
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ND1145 .L69 2009
Contents:
Giotto di Bondone: The Arena Chapel -- Tommaso Masaccio: The Tribute Money -- Jan Van Eyck: The Arnolfini Portrait -- Fra Angelico: The Annunciation -- Andrea Mantegna: The Dead Christ -- Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus -- Albrecht Durer: Self-portrait at Twenty-eight -- Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa -- Giorgione: La Tempesta -- Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam -- Raphael: School of Athens -- Matthias Grunewald: The Isenheim Altarpeice -- Titian: The Venus of Urbino -- Paolo Veronese: The Wedding at Cana -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel -- El Greco: View of Toledo -- Caravaggio: The Death of the Virgin -- Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch -- Diego Valazquez: Las Meninas -- Jan Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Jacques-Louis David: Death of Marat -- Henry Raeburn: The Skating Minister -- Francisco de Goya: The Third of May, 1808 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Grande Odalsique -- Caspar David Friedrich: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog -- Theodore Gericault: The Raft of the Medusa -- Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People -- William Turner: Rain, Stream and Speed -- Edouard Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler: The Artist's Mother -- Claude Monet: Impression-Sunrise -- Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night -- Mary Cassatt: The Child's Bath -- Edvard Munch: The Scream -- Paul Cezanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Gustav Klimt: The Kiss -- Henri Matisse: La Danse -- Henri Rousseau: The Dream -- Wassily Kandinsky: The Dream -- Kasimir Malevich: Black Square -- Georgia O'Keeffe: Petunia No. 2 -- Grant Wood: American Gothic -- Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory -- Frida Kahlo: The Two Fridas -- Edward Hopper: Nighthawks -- Jackson Pollock: Autumn Rhythm No. 30 -- Mark Rothko: Black on Maroon -- Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans.
Summary: Spanning seven centuries, this selection of fifty iconic paintings offers readers a crash course in art history while presenting gorgeous color reproductions that are a pleasure to contemplate. Starting with Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes and continuing through Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, as well as works by Monet, van Gogh, Cassatt, Cezanne, Dali, Kahlo, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko, and O'Keeffe, nearly every important painter is represented in this book. It features works that may be familiar to the eye, but whose histories are even more fascinating. Readers will learn about the painters who created them, the reasons for their importance and the places the paintings can be found. As entertaining as it is informative, this beautiful book is the perfect introduction to great paintings that have stood the test of time. -- Publisher description.
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Includes index.

Giotto di Bondone: The Arena Chapel -- Tommaso Masaccio: The Tribute Money -- Jan Van Eyck: The Arnolfini Portrait -- Fra Angelico: The Annunciation -- Andrea Mantegna: The Dead Christ -- Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus -- Albrecht Durer: Self-portrait at Twenty-eight -- Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa -- Giorgione: La Tempesta -- Michelangelo: The Creation of Adam -- Raphael: School of Athens -- Matthias Grunewald: The Isenheim Altarpeice -- Titian: The Venus of Urbino -- Paolo Veronese: The Wedding at Cana -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder: The Tower of Babel -- El Greco: View of Toledo -- Caravaggio: The Death of the Virgin -- Rembrandt van Rijn: The Night Watch -- Diego Valazquez: Las Meninas -- Jan Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring -- Jacques-Louis David: Death of Marat -- Henry Raeburn: The Skating Minister -- Francisco de Goya: The Third of May, 1808 -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Grande Odalsique -- Caspar David Friedrich: The Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog -- Theodore Gericault: The Raft of the Medusa -- Eugene Delacroix: Liberty Leading the People -- William Turner: Rain, Stream and Speed -- Edouard Manet: Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler: The Artist's Mother -- Claude Monet: Impression-Sunrise -- Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night -- Mary Cassatt: The Child's Bath -- Edvard Munch: The Scream -- Paul Cezanne: Mont Sainte-Victoire -- Gustav Klimt: The Kiss -- Henri Matisse: La Danse -- Henri Rousseau: The Dream -- Wassily Kandinsky: The Dream -- Kasimir Malevich: Black Square -- Georgia O'Keeffe: Petunia No. 2 -- Grant Wood: American Gothic -- Salvador Dali: The Persistence of Memory -- Frida Kahlo: The Two Fridas -- Edward Hopper: Nighthawks -- Jackson Pollock: Autumn Rhythm No. 30 -- Mark Rothko: Black on Maroon -- Andy Warhol: Campbell's Soup Cans.

Spanning seven centuries, this selection of fifty iconic paintings offers readers a crash course in art history while presenting gorgeous color reproductions that are a pleasure to contemplate. Starting with Giotto's Arena Chapel frescoes and continuing through Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, as well as works by Monet, van Gogh, Cassatt, Cezanne, Dali, Kahlo, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko, and O'Keeffe, nearly every important painter is represented in this book. It features works that may be familiar to the eye, but whose histories are even more fascinating. Readers will learn about the painters who created them, the reasons for their importance and the places the paintings can be found. As entertaining as it is informative, this beautiful book is the perfect introduction to great paintings that have stood the test of time. -- Publisher description.

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