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History of Art: Western Tradition
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Include books by the same authorThe Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Martin Gayford · 352 pages
From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered into
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Ross King · 378 pages
"In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and
The Power of Art
Simon Schama · 448 pages
Taking eight famous painters and their great masterpieces, this book takes you back to the intense moment in history when these works were conceived and born. In each case the artist is backed into a corner, and given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
Michael Baxandall · 165 pages
Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Ren
Art Through the Ages
Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya · 922 pages
Contains: - Volume I: [Ancient, Medieval, and Non-European Art](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL18151172W/Ancient_Medieval_and_Non-European_Art) - Volume II: [Renaissance and Modern Art](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15125458W/Renaissance_and_Modern_Art) - Book B: [The Middle Ages](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17551781W/The_Middle_Ages) - Book D: [Renaissance and Baroque](https://op
History of Beauty
Umberto Eco, Girolamo De Michele · 438 pages
From the Publisher: What is beauty? What is art? What is taste and fashion? Is beauty something to be observed coolly and rationally or is it something dangerously involving? So begins Umberto Eco's intriguing journey into the aesthetics of beauty, in which he explores the ever-changing concept of the beautiful from the ancient Greeks to today. While closely examining the development of the visual
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay · 448 pages
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
David Attenborough, Susan Owens · 223 pages
Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery.
The Lost Painting
Jonathan Harr · 279 pages
A decaying palazzo on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome makes a discovery that inspires a search for a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a revolutionary painter beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
Carol Strickland · 222 pages
An illustrated tutorial of prehistoric to contemporary world art, from cave paintings to video art installations to digital and Internet media in an easy-to-understand format.
Art History, Combined Volume
Marilyn Stokstad, Frederick Asher, Michael Cothren · 1,198 pages
Celtic Art: From Its Beginnings to the Book of Kells
Ruth Megaw, Vincent Megaw · 288 pages
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Sebastian Smee · 393 pages
"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and
Michael Dahl and the Contemporary Swedish School of Painting in England
Wilhelm Nisser · 508 pages
Blue: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau · 216 pages
"Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Once considered a hot color, it is now icy cool. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now pick it as their favorite color. In this history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international
Van Gogh: The Life
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith · 953 pages
Frida Kahlo
Andrea Kettenmann · 96 pages
The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a pas
Rembrandt, 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
Michael Bockemuhl · 96 pages