Great Artists Explained
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Includes index.
Previously published as Annotated guides: great artists.
What makes a great artist? -- Artists, patrons, & collectors -- Limbourg Brothers -- Masaccio -- Van Eyck -- Van der Goes -- Piero -- Bellini -- Botticelli -- Leonardo -- Dürer -- Michelangelo -- Giorgione -- Raphael -- Titian -- Brueghel -- Caravaggio -- Rubens -- Poussin -- Gentileschi -- Velásquez -- Rembrandt -- Ter Borch -- Canaletto -- Hogarth -- Reynolds -- Fragonard -- Goya -- David -- Friedrich -- Turner -- Constable -- Ingres -- Delacroix -- Courbet -- Manet -- Degas -- Whistler -- Cézanne -- Monet -- Morisot -- Gauguin -- Van Gogh -- Sargent -- Klimt -- Kandinsky -- Matisse -- Klee -- Picasso -- Hopper -- Modigliani -- Pollock.
A compendium of fifty great artists and their most important works spans six centuries and includes biographical profiles, information on style, movements, influences, and identifiable techniques for such artists as Michelangelo, Van Gogh, and Matisse.
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Great Book submitted by 0liviap0pp on August 21, 2011, 8:27am This is a very good book that explains about many great artists.
SERIES
Ladies Library Collection.
PUBLISHED
New York : DK Publishing, c2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 112 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780756628703
0756628709
SUBJECTS
Paintings -- Themes, motives.
Painters -- History and criticism.