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Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators.
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| Group Author: | ; ; ; ; |
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| Published: |
DK Publishing,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: |
Each section features a lavish double-page image of an influential painting that defines each artistic style. Seminal works of genius are portrayed in their historical context, with attention paid to the culture of the time and the lives of their creators. |
| Item Description: |
Subtitle on cover: Transformative art movements and the paintings that inspired them. Includes indexes. |
| Carrier Form: | 400 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781465414359 1465414355 |
| Index Number: | N5300 |
| CLC: | J110.9 |
| Call Number: | J110.9/A784-6 |
| Contents: | Ancient and medieval. Prehistoric art -- Egyptian art -- Greek and Roman art -- Early Christian and Byzantine -- The Dark Ages -- Romanesque and Gothic -- Renaissance and mannerism. Birth of the Renaissance -- Flowering of the Renaissance -- High Renaissance -- Venetian Renaissance -- Northern Renaissance -- Italian mannerism -- Mannerism outside Italy -- Baroque to neoclassicism. Italian Baroque -- Flemish and Spanish Baroque -- Dutch Baroque -- French Baroque -- French rococo -- Rococo outside France -- Neoclassicism -- The 19th century. Romanticism -- Romantic landscape -- Pre-Raphaelites |