Title: My favorite things : 75 works of art from around the world /
Authors: Beckett, Wendy
Publisher: Abrams,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Art appreciation; Art criticism.
Abstract: Short essays describe seventy-five of the author's favorite works of art, ranging from famous paintings to little-known works.
Contents: Woman from Brassenpony -- The woman with the pearl / Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot -- Le Lac d'Annecy / Paul Cezanne -- The annunciation with Saint Emidius / Carlo Crivelli -- Owl, detail of late-17th-century tile panel -- A woman peeling apples / Pieter de Hooch -- A princess of Saxony / Lucas Cranach the Elder -- Mr. and Mrs. Andrews / Thomas Gainsborough -- Apollo and Daphne / Gianlorenzo Bernini -- A bar at the Folies-Bergere / Edouard Manet -- Le dessert de Gaufrettes / Lubin Baugin -- Still life: lemons, oranges & a rose / Francisco de Zurbaran -- Madame Moitessier seated / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Head of a young girl / Jean-Francois Millet -- The ideal city / Francesco di Giorgio Martini -- Entrance hall, Laurentian library / Michelangelo Buonarroti -- The hay-wain / John Constable -- The Biglin brothers racing / Thomas Eakins -- The young schoolmistress / Jean-Simeon Chardin -- Saint Matthew the evangelist / Guido Reni --^