MASTERPIECES OF WESTERN ART 2 VOL.

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Masterpieces of Western Art is a history of painting from the Middle Ages to the present day. Unlike conventional art histories, however, this publication does not offer a lengthy text accompanied here and there by a few illustrations. Instead, the focus is on the paintings themselves: more than 900 paintings trace the history of western art through the ages. An introductory essay at the beginning of each chapter outlines the background of each era, detailing the outstanding achievements of its foremost artists and their stylistic innovations. This is followed by a presentation ofand detailed commentary on the artists’ key works. All in all, more than 900 paintings are interpreted. The result is an «imaginary museum of painting» with masterpieces by more than 500 artists from eight centuries, providing an authoritative and reliable guide through the history of western art. The vivid commentaries and accessible layout elucidate artistic techniques and motifs in the context of their social and cultural background artist by artist, era by era.Readers opening the book at any page to find familiar masterpieces or to discover new artists can build up a new and more profound understanding of art. Masterpieces of Western Art is a highly readable and exciting journey of discovery through eight centuries of painting – authoritative and informative without any of the dryness of conventional scholarly art histories. Volume I covers the period from the 13th to the 18th century: Gothic, Early Renaissance, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassicism. The most important painters of these eras and their works are presented here and interpreted in detail: GOTHIC Giotto, Duccio, Simone Martini, the Lorenzetti brothers, Fra Angelico, the Limburg brothers, Stefan Lochner. EARLY RENAISSANCE Masaccio, Uccello, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Mantegna, Antonello da Messina, the Bellini brothers, van Eyck, Rogier van der Weyden, Hieronymus Bosch. RENAISSANCE AND MANNERISM Leonardo da Vinci, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Dürer, Grünewald, Altdorfer, Cranach, Holbein, Bruegel, El Greco.

9783822889091

A HISTORY OF ART IN 900 INDIVIDUAL STUDIES

WALTHER, INGO F.