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Author Wolf, Norbert, 1949-

Title Landscape painting / Norbert Wolf ; [translation, John William Gabriel]
Published Kèoln : Taschen, [2008]
©2008

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Description 96 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Contents Views of nature and visions of the world -- The Month of February, fol. 2v of 'Très Riches Heures,'Duc de Berry Collection / Jean, Paul and Herman De Limbourg -- Hieronymus Bosch. Paradise (left panel of the triptych 'Garden of Earthly Delights,' interior) -- Titian(?). Country Concert (Concert champetre) -- Joachim Patinir. Landscape with St. Jerome -- Albrecht Altdorfer. The Battle of Alexander at Issus --Paolo Caliari. Narrow wall of the Stanza del Cane in Villa Barbaro -- Pieter Bruegel. Hunters in the Snow -- El Greco. View of Toledo (Storm over Toledo) -- Joos De Momper. Landscape with Grotto -- Adam Elsheimer. The Flight into Egypt -- Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn. Stormy Landscape -- Frans Post. Brazilian Landscape with Anteater -- Claude Gellée. Idyllic Landscape with the Flight into Egypt -- Jacob Van Ruisdael. The Mill at Wijk near Duurstede -- Joseph Anton Koch. Heroic Landscape with Rainbow -- Caspar David Friedrich. The Wandere above the Sea of Fog -- John Constable. The Lock -- William Turner. Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway -- Eugène Delacroix. Landscape with Setting Sun (Etude de Ciel au soleil couchant) -- Albert Bierstadt. Yosemite Valley at Sunset --
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. The Solitude, Recollection of Vigen, Limousin -- James Abbott Mcneill Whistler. Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Old Battersea Bridge -- Arnold Böcklin. The Island of the Dead -- Vincent Van Gogh. Starry Night -- Claude Monet. Poplars. Three Pink Trees in Autumn -- Paul Gauguin. Tahitian Landscape with Mountains -- Paul Cézanne. La Montagne Sainte-Victoire -- Georges Braque. Landscape (The Valley) -- Paul Klee. Kairuan, 1914, 42 -- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. Tinzenhorn, Zugenschlucht near Monstein -- Max Beckmann. Mountain Lake with Swans -- Salvador Dali. The Great Paranoiac -- Yves Tanguy. Day of Indolence -- Andy Warhol. Do it Yourself (Landscape) -- David Hockney. Nichols Canyon
Summary "The landscape has been, for many centuries, one of the most important genres in painting. This book examines the landscape from the late Middle Ages to modern times, comprising a synopsis of the genre and covering a selection of the most important landscapes in the history of art. From Titian to Warhol, readers will discover the evolution of this popular genre." -- Publisher's website
Notes "Back to visual basics"--Rear flap
Translated from the German by John William Gabriel
Subject Landscape painting -- History and criticism.
Landscape painting -- History.
Landscape painting -- Technique.
Landscape painting.
Painting -- Appreciation.
Author Gabriel, John William.
ISBN 9783822854662 (paperback)