Art explained: the world's greatest paintings..

Provides a close-up look at forty-five important artworks from the world's greatest artists, furnishing biographical notes on each artist, a detailed analysis of each work, and a study of artistic …

Great artists explained: the lives of 50 painters explored..

A chronological compendium of fifty great artists and their most important works spans six centuries of world art and encompasses biographical profiles and information on style, movements, influenc…

Paint your own illuminated letters

an introduction to the history and tools of illumination through more than 25 practical projects. Guidance on techniques such as decoration, gilding..,

Realism in 20th century painting

This first ever survey of the subject demonstrates that realism has had a continuous yet restlessly changing place in American and European painting throughout the twentieth century--from Eakins, B…

Icons of American Prostestanism: the art of Warner Sallman

Although American Protestants often claims that they are opposed to the use of devotional images in their religious life, they in fact draw on a vast body of religious icons to disseminate confessi…

Belonging

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978-1-4063-0941-6

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46 cm.

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R 750 BAK b

Window

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ISBN/ISSN

978-0-7445-9847-4

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46 cm.

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R 750 BAK w

Painting in Florence and Siena after the black death

The first extended study of the painting of Florence and Siena in the later 14th century, this book presents a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural a…

Painting the word: Christian picture and their meanings

Chrisitanity is another country, says the author, and we need to familiarize ourselves with it in order to understand the universal meaning of its art. In this beautifully written book, the auhtor …

Indian painting: a catalogue of the Los Angeles county museum..

The Indian paintings catalogues in this book were executed over a period of seven centureis, from about AD 1000 until 1700. At the beginning of the period the sub continent was divided into numerou…