Author: Rosie Dickins
Publisher: Educational Development Corporation
ISBN: 9780794525422
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Originally published: London: Usborne, 2009.

Author: John Nici
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442249552
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 331

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In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made this portrait so renowned, commanding such adoration? And what of other works of art that continue to enthrall spectators: What makes the Great Sphinx so great? Why do iterations of The Scream and American Gothic permeate nearly all aspects of popular culture? Is it because of the mastery of the artists who created them? Or can something else account for their popularity? In Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way, John B. Nici looks at twenty well-known paintings, sculptures, and photographs that have left lasting impressions on the general public. As Nici notes, there are many reasons why works of art become famous; few have anything to do with quality. The author explains why the reputations of some creations have grown over the years, some disproportionate to their artistic value. Written in a style that is both entertaining and informative, this book explains how fame is achieved, and ultimately how a work either retains that fame, or passes from the public consciousness. From ancient artifacts to a can of soup, this book raises the question: Did the talent to promote and publicize a work exceed the skills employed to create that object of worship? Or are some masterpieces truly worth the admiration they receive? The creations covered in this book include the Tomb of Tutankhamun, Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, Raphael’s Sistine Madonna, El Greco’s The Burial of Count Orgaz, Rodin’s The Thinker, Van Gogh’s Starry Night, and Picasso’s Guernica. Featuring more than sixty images, including color reproductions, Famous Works of Art—And How They Got That Way will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered if a great painting, sculpture, or photograph, really deserves to be called “great.”

Author: Marina Vaizey
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781855013919
Category : Painting
Languages : en
Pages : 119

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A hundred key paintings analysed and their significance explained. Short biographies of world famous artists and brief accounts of the art movements they represent. The artists are: Duccio, Giotto, Simone Martini, van Eyck, Uccello, van der Weyden, Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Bellini, Mantegna, van der Goes, Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Leonardo da Vinci, Bosch, Piero di Cosimo, Durer, Grunewald, Cranach, Michelangelo, Giorgione, Carpaccio, Raphael, Titian, Holbein, Bronzino, Tintoretto, Clouet, Bruegel, Veronese, El Greco, Hilliard, Caravaggio, Rubens, Hals, Poussin, van Dyck, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Vermeer, de Hooch, Hobbema, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canaletto, Hogarth, Chardin, Boucher, Reynolds, Stubbs, Gainsborough, Fragonard, Goya, David, Blake, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Ingres, Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Palmer, Millet, Frith, Madox Brown, Millais, Pissarro, Manet, Degas, Whistler, Homer, Cezanne, Monet, Renoir, Rousseau, Eakins, Gauguin, van Gogh, Seurat, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse, Klimt, Picasso, Braque, Hopper, Modigliani, Duchamp, Chagall, Magritte, Dali, Bacon, Wyeth, Pollack, Lichtenstein, Hockney.

Author: Sarah Courtauld
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN: 9780794529239
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A set of cards providing facts and figures about famous paintings.

Author: Steven Biel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393059120
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Describes Grant Wood's portrait of Iowa farmers, and documents how the piece has represented midwestern Puritanism, hard-working endurance, and the often-parodied American heartland.

Author: Boston, Mass. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300063417
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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"This book takes you through the collection gallery by gallery, illuminating the art and installations in each room"--From preface.

Author: Rockwell Kent
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781494105891
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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This is a new release of the original 1939 edition.

Author: Julia Ann Clark Shedd
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385499437
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author: Joseph Alsop
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691252262
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 750

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A cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market In The Rare Art Traditions, Joseph Alsop offers a wide-ranging cultural and social history of art collecting, art history, and the art market. He argues that art collecting is the basic element in a remarkably complex and historically rare behavioral system, which includes the historical study of art, the market for buying and selling art, museums, forgery, and the astonishing prices commanded by some works of art. The Rare Art Traditions tells the story of three important traditions of art collecting: the classical tradition that began in Greece, the Chinese tradition, and the Western tradition. The result is a major original contribution to art history.

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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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