| Description |
308 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The last judgement / Giotto di Bondone -- Secrets of the animal world -- The adoration of the Magi / Gentile da Fabriano -- The Arnolfini portrait / Jan van Eyck -- The Ghent altarpiece / Jan van Eyck -- The Chancellor Rolin Madonna / Jan van Eyck -- The annunciaton / Rogier van der Weyden -- The deposition from the cross / Rogier van der Weyden -- Christ mocked / Fran Angelico -- The triumph of Federico da Montefeltro / Piero Della Francesca -- Portinari altarpiece / Hugo van der Goes -- St. Jerome in his stuidy / Domenico Ghirlandaio -- The adoration of the Magi / Leonardo da Vinci -- La primavera (spring) / Sandro Botticelli -- Marriage of the virgin / Pietro Perugino -- Virgin and child enthroned with Saints / Giovanni Bellini -- The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli -- Madonna della Vittoria / Andrea Mantegna -- Pallas Athena expelling the vices / Andrea Mantegna -- The last supper / Leonardo da Vinci -- Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci -- Doni tondo / Michelangelo -- The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- The Madonna of the meadow / Raphael -- The school of Athens / Raphael -- Mars and Venus / Piero di Cosimo -- The three philosophers / Giorgione -- The adoration of the trinity / Albrecht Durer -- The Isenheim altarpiece / Matthias Grünewald -- A banker and his wife / Quinten Metsys -- Bacchanal of the andrians / Titian -- The last judgment / Michelangelo -- The enigmas of architecture -- Madonna and child / Joos van Cleve -- The French ambassadors / Hans Holbein the younger -- A Christian Allegory / Jan Provost -- Decoding flowers and fruit -- Allegory of immortality / Giulio Romano -- St. Luke painting the virgin / Maerten van Heemskerck -- Fight between carnival and lent / Pieter Bruegel the elder -- Allegory of vanity / Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus) -- Burial of the Count of Orgaz / El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) -- Feast in the house of Levi / Paolo Caliari called Veronese -- The calling of St. Matthew / Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) -- Apelles paints campaspe / Joos van Winghe -- Allegory of sight / Jan Breughel the elder and Peter Paul Rubens -- Minerva's victory over ignorance / Bartholomaeus Spranger -- The education of Marie de' Medici / Peter Paul Rubens -- The artist's studio / Jan Miense Molenaer -- Time vanquished by hope and beauty / Simon Vouet -- Fortitude brings peace and plenty / Eustache le Suerur -- The consequences of war / Peter Paul Rubens -- Eucharist in fruit wreath / Jan Davidsz. de Heem -- Vanitas (self portrait) / David Bailly -- The banquet of the bean king / Jacob Jordaens -- The spinners (the fable of Arachne) / Diego Velázquez -- In luxury, look out / Jan Steen -- The gathering of manna / Nicolas Poussin -- In Ictu Oculi (in the twinkling of and eye) / Juan de Valdés Leal -- Las Meninas / Diego Velázquez -- The art of painting / Johannes Vermeer -- The secret language of myth -- The spell / Francisco de Goya -- Liberty leading the people / Eugene Delacroix -- The apotheosis of Homer / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Jupiter and Semele / Gustave Moreau. |
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Painting.
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Symbolism in art.
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| Added Author |
Tucker, Rebecca.
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Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra.
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| Added Title |
Art lover's guide to understanding symbols in paintings |
| ISBN |
9780789318916 hardcover |
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0789318911 hardcover |
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