| Description |
785 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Bibliotheca universalis |
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Bibliotheca universalis (Taschen (Firm))
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| Contents |
Fragment of a wall painting from the tomb of Nebamun : before 1350 BC / anonymous -- The Empress Theodora with her retinue : c. 547 / anonymous -- The night revels of Han Xizai : c. 960 / Gu Hongzhong -- The Bayeux tapestry : after 1066 / anonymous -- Two miniatures from the Maqamat of al-Hariri : 1237 / Al-Wasiti -- Miniature from Christine de Pizan's "Book of the city of ladies" : c. 1405 / anonymous -- The little garden of paradise : c. 1410 / Upper Rhenish master -- The Mérode triptych : Annunciation triptych/Mérode altarpiece, in which Joseph is seen making mousetraps : c. 1422/1430 / Robert Campin -- St. George : 1435/1438 / Antonio Pisano, called Pisanello -- The Arnolfini marriage : 1434 / Jan van Eyck -- The battle of San Romano : c. 1435 / Paolo Uccello -- St. Nicholas of Bari : 1437 / Fra Angelico -- The Melun diptych : c. 1456 / Jean Fouquet -- Tobias and the angel : c. 1469 / Antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo -- Ludovico Gonzaga and his family : c. 1470 / Andrea Mantegna -- The Passion : c. 1470/1471 / Hans Memling -- Window miniature : 1470/1480 / Master of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy -- The Portinari Altar : c. 1475 / Hugo van der Goes -- The birth of Venus : c. 1486 / Sandro Botticelli -- The haywain : 1485/1490 / Hieronymus Bosch -- The ship of the Argonauts : c. 1480/1490 / Ercole de' Roberti/Lorenzo Costa -- St. George and the dragon : 1502/1507 / Vittore Carpaccio -- The knight, the maiden, and death : before 1503 / Hans Baldung Grien -- Christ among the doctors : 1506 / Albrecht Dürer -- The creation of Adam : 1508/1512 / Michelangelo Buonarotti -- The Sistine Madonna : 1512/1513 / Raphael -- The Isenheim Altar : 1512-1516 / Matthias Grünewald -- The judgement of Paris : 1516/1528 / Niklaus Manuel Deutsch -- Lot and his daughters : c. 1530 / unknown Netherlandish master -- St. Christopher : between c. 1520/1562 / unknown southern German artist -- The battle of Issus : 1529 / Albrecht Altdorfer -- The ambassadors : 1533 / Hans Holbein the Younger -- Witchcraft, or, Allegory of Hercules : 1540/1542 / Dosso Dossi -- Pope Paul III and his grandsons : 1545 / Titian -- The fountain of youth : 1546 / Lucas Cranach the Elder -- Momus criticizes the works of the gods : 1561 / Maerten van Heemskerck -- The marriage at Cana : 1562/1563 / Paolo Veronese -- Hunters in the snow : 1565 / Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- The massacre by the Triumvirate : 1566 / Antoine Caron -- The origin of the Milky Way : c. 1580 / Tintoretto -- The burial of the Count of Orgaz : 1586 / El Greco -- Armada portrait of Elizabeth I : c. 1590 / George Gower -- St. Elizabeth tending the sick : c. 1597 / Adam Elsheimer -- Judith and Holofernes : c. 1599 / Caravaggio -- Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters : c. 1600 / School of Fontainebleau -- Judith and her maid : 1625/1627 / Artemisia Gentileschi -- The fortune teller : after 1630 / Georges de La Tour -- Seaport with the embarkation of the Queen of Sheba : 1648 / Claude Lorrain -- The love garden : c. 1632/1634 / Peter Paul Rubens -- The rape of the Sabine women : 1637/1639 / Nicolas Poussin -- The night watch : 1642 / Rembrandt -- The king drinks : 1640/1645 / Jacob Jordaens -- The burgher of Delft and his daughter : 1655 / Jan Steen -- Velázquez and the royal family (Las meninas) : 1656 / Diego de Silva y Velázquez -- The art of painting : 1665/1666 / Jan Vermeer -- The chancellor Séguier : after 1660 / Charles Le Brun -- Pilgrimage to Cythera : c. 1719 / Antoine Watteau -- The laundress : 1733 / Jean Siméon Chardin -- The finding of Moses : c. 1738 / Giambattista Tiepolo -- The breakfast : 1739 / François Boucher -- Mr. and Mrs. Andrews : 1749 / Thomas Gainsborough -- The ridotto : c. 1750 / Francesco Guardi -- An election entertainment : 1754/1755 / William Hogarth -- The tooth drawer : c. 1754 / Giandomenico Tiepolo -- George Clive with his family and an Indian maidservant : c. 1765 / Sir Joshua Reynolds -- The stolen kiss : 1787 / Jean-Honoré Fragonard -- Goethe in the Roman campagna : 1786/1787 / Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein -- The meadow of St. Isidore : 1788 / Francisco de Goya -- The death of Marat : 1793 / Jacques-Louis David -- Cathedral overlooking a city : 1813 / Karl Friedrich Schinkel -- Chalk cliffs on Rügen : c. 1818 / Caspar David Friedrich -- The raft of the Medusa : 1819 / Théodore Géricault -- Liberty leading the people : 1830 / Eugène Delacroix -- Morning mist at Mishima : c. 1833 / Ando Hiroshige -- The "Fighting Temeraire" tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 : 1839 / William Turner -- The poor poet : 1839 / Carl Spitzweg -- The flute concert of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci : 1850/1852 / Adolph Menzel -- The studio : 1855 / Gustave Courbet -- The Turkish bath : 1863 / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- The balcony : 1868/1869 / Édouard Manet -- Medea : 1870 / Anselm Feuerbach -- Camille Monet on a garden bench (The bench) : 1873 / Claude Monet -- The rehearsal on the stage : 1873 / Edgar Degas -- Paris street, rainy day : 1877 / Gustave Caillebotte -- The entry of Charles V into Antwerp : 1878 / Hans Makart -- The isle of the dead : 1880 / Arnold Böcklin -- The mounring of the execution of the Streltsy : 1881 / Vasily Surikov -- The luncheon of the boating party : 1881 / Pierre-Auguste Renoir -- Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte : 1884/1886 / Georges Seurat -- The entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 : 1888 / James Ensor -- At the Moulin Rouge : c. 1893 / Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec -- Large interior with six figures : 1897 / Édouard Vuillard -- Potsdamer Platz : 1914 / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner -- Female textile workers : 1927 / Alexander Deineka -- Metropolis (Triptych) : 1928 / Otto Dix -- American Gothic : 1930 / Grant Wood -- The passion of Sacco and Vanzetti : 1931/1932 / Ben Shahn -- Birth : 1937 ; and, Death : 1938 / Max Beckmann -- White crucifixion : 1938 / Marc Chagall -- Dream of a Sunday afternoon in Alameda : 1948 / Diego Rivera |
| Summary |
This important addition to our understanding of art historys masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Translated from the German |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 768-783) |
| Audience |
Adult |
| Subject |
Painting -- Appreciation.
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Painting, European.
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| Author |
Hagen, Rainer, 1928- author
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| LC no. |
2017394670 |
| ISBN |
3836559269 |
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9783836559263 |
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