The World's Most Influential Painters and the Artists They Inspired

Autori

• David Gariff

Parametri

• 192 pagine
• 7 ore di lettura

• Arte
• Arte / Cultura
• Saggistica

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Much more than just another ordinary survey of art history, this absorbing, heavily illustrated volume reveals the always interesting and often surprising cross-influences and connections among 50 of the most important painters in European and American art. Handsome and enlightening illustrated spreads present "trees of influence," each of which focuses on a major artist or significant school of art. Included are time lines, reproductions of paintings, and capsule analyses of the works being discussed. For example, a two-page spread on the seventeenth-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer shows readers

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2008

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