Great paintings : [the world's masterpieces explored and explained]
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Features works from great artists through the ages including Zhang Zeduan, Rothko, and Botticelli; examines the story behind each piece; and explores the social context of each. Full description
Table of Contents:
- The Qingming scroll /
- Zhang Zeduan
- The lamentation of Christ /
- Giotto di Bondone
- The Madonna enthroned /
- Duccio di Buoninsegna
- The annunciation /
- Fra Angelico
- The Arnolfini portrait /
- Jan Van Eyck
- The baptism of Christ /
- Piero della Francesca
- The hunt in the forest /
- Paolo Uccello
- The birth of Venus /
- Sandro Botticelli
- The garden of earthly delights /
- Hieronymus Bosch
- The great piece of turf /
- Albrecht Düer
- Mona Lisa /
- Leonardo da Vinci
- The school of Athens /
- Raphael
- Sistine Chapel ceiling /
- Michelangelo
- Bacchus and Ariadne /
- Titian
- The ambassadors /
- Hans Holbein
- Spring morning in the Han Palace /
- Qiu Ying
- Netherlandish proverbs /
- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
- Spring /
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo
- Cypress tree /
- Kano Eitoku
- Akbar's adventures with the elephant Hawa'i in 1561 /
- Basawan and Chetar
- David with the head of Goliath /
- Caravaggio
- The judgment of Paris /
- Peter Paul Rubens
- Charles I on horseback /
- Anthony van Dyck
- Self-portrait as "La Pittura" /
- Artemisia Gentileschi
- Las meninas /
- Diego Velázquez
- Self-portrait /
- Rembrandt van Rijn
- The art of painting /
- Johannes Vermeer
- Still life with flowers and fruit /
- Jan van Huysum
- Marriage à-la-mode : the marriage settlement /
- William Hogarth
- Mr. and Mrs. Andrews /
- Thomas Gainsborough
- Allegory of the planets and continents /
- Giambattista Tiepolo
- An experiment on a bird in the air pump /
- Joseph Wright of Derby
- The death of Marat /
- Jacques-Louis David
- The Valpinçon bather /
- Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
- The third of May 1808 /
- Francisco de Goya
- Wanderer above the sea of fog /
- Caspar David Friedrich
- The hay wain /
- John Constable
- The fighting Temeraire /
- J.M.W. Turner
- The artist's studio /
- Gustave Courbet
- Olympia /
- Édouard Manet
- Arrangement in grey and black, no. 1 /
- James McNeill Whistler
- The dancing class /
- Edgar Degas
- A Sunday on La Grande Jatte /
- Georges Seurat
- Van Gogh's chair /
- Vincent van Gogh
- The child's bath /
- Mary Cassatt
- Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? /
- Paul Gauguin
- The waterlily pond /
- Claude Monet
- Lake Keitele /
- Akseli Gallen-Kallela
- The large bathers /
- Paul Cézanne
- The kiss /
- Gustav Klimt
- Composition VII /
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Berlin street scene /
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Northern River /
- Tom Thomson
- Red balloon /
- Paul Klee
- Red canna /
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- The metamorphosis of Narcissus /
- Salvador Dalí
- Guernica /
- Pablo Picasso
- Nighthawks /
- Edward Hopper
- Without hope /
- Frida Kahlo
- Red interior, still life on a blue table /
- Henri Matisse
- Autumn rhythm (number 30) /
- Jackson Pollock
- Untitled /
- Mark Rothko
- Marilyn /
- Andy Warhol
- To a summer's day /
- Bridget Riley
- The dance /
- Paula Rego
- Athanor /
- Anselm Kiefer.