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Lowis, Kristina.
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Painting -- Appreciation.
Painting -- History.
Painters -- Biography.
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Lowis, Kristina.
Painting -- Appreciation.
Painting -- History.
Painters -- Biography.
MARC Display
50
paintings
you
should
know
/ Kristina Lowis and Tamsin Pickeral.
by
Lowis, Kristina.
Prestel, [2016]
Call #:
759 L918f
Subjects
Painting -- Appreciation.
Painting -- History.
Painters -- Biography.
ISBN:
9783791381701 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Fifty
paintings
you
should
know
Edition:
[Updated edition].
Description:
156 pages : illustrations (chiefly color, some black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Previously published in 2009.
Includes index.
Contents:
The Arena Chapel / Giotto di Bondone -- The tribute money / Tommaso Masaccio -- The Arnolfini portrait / Jan van Eyck -- The annunciation / Fra Angelico -- The dead Christ / Andrea Mantegna -- The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli -- Self-portrait at twenty-eight / Albrecht Dürer -- The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci -- La tempest / Giorgione -- The creation of Adam / Michelangelo -- School of Athens / Raphael -- The Isenheim altarpiece / Mattias Grünewald -- The Venus of Urbino / Titian -- The wedding at Cana / Paolo Veronese -- The tower of Babel / Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- View of Toledo / El Greco -- The death of the virgin / Caravaggio -- The night watch / Rembrandt van Rijn -- Las meninas / Diego Velázquez -- Girl with a pearl earring / Jan Vermeer -- Death of Marat / Jacques-Louis David -- The skating minister / Henry Raeburn -- The third of May, 1808 / Francisco de Goya -- Grande Odalisque / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres --
The wanderer above the sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich -- The raft of the medusa / Théodore Géricault -- Liberty leading the people / Eugène Delacroix -- Rain, steam and speed / William Turner -- Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe / Edouard Manet -- The artist's mother / James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- Impression-sunrise / Claude Monet -- The starry night / Vincent van Gogh -- The child's bath / Mary Stevenson Cassatt -- The scream / Edvard Munch -- Mont Sainte-Victoire / Paul Cézanne -- Les demoiselles d'Avignon / Pablo Picasso -- The kiss / Gustav Klimt -- La danse / Henri Matisse -- The dream / Henri Rousseau -- Impression III (concert) / Wassily Kandinsky -- Black square / Kasimir Malevich -- Petunia No. 2 / Georgia O'Keeffe -- American gothic / Grant Wood -- The persistence of memory / Salvador Dalí -- The two Fridas / Frida Kahlo -- Nighthawks / Edward Hopper -- Autumn rhythm no. 30 / Jackson Pollock -- Black on maroon / Mark Rothko -- Campbell's soup cans / Andy Warhol -- Glossary -- Portrait illustrations.
Summary:
Presents
fifty
paintings
by major artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work, a timeline for the artist.
Other authors:
Pickeral, Tamsin.
Holds:
3
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