Prestel Publishing | ISBN:3791341987 | File Type: PDF, 173 pages | File size: 58.Mb | Apr. 1st, 2009
General Art History: 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 earl Earring as well as works by Monet van Gogh Cassatt Czanne Dal Kahlo Hopper ollock 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 beautif book is the perfect introduction to great paintings that have stood the test of time
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