The National Gallery Companion Guide
Langmuir, ErikaAuthor
Langmuir, Erika.
National Gallery (Great Britain)
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The Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters -- Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, Degas and many others and masterpieces by less familiar artists. Through her commentaries on 200 of the National Gallery's finest works of art, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, to develop an eye for style, technique, imagery and genre, and to appreciate the talents of individual artists producing paintings for different locations and patrons, in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Acknowledgements -- Foreword / by Gabriele Finaldi -- A short history of the National Gallery -- Introduction -- Paintings 1250-1500, the Sainsbury Wing -- Paintings 1500-1600, the West Wing -- Paintings 1600-1700, the North Wing -- Paintings 1700-1900, the East Wing -- Paintings after 1900, the East Wing.
The Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters -- Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, Degas and many others and masterpieces by less familiar artists. Through her commentaries on 200 of the National Gallery's finest works of art, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, to develop an eye for style, technique, imagery and genre, and to appreciate the talents of individual artists producing paintings for different locations and patrons, in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts.
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National Gallery (Great Britain)
Visual Arts
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
Painting
Visual Arts - General

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