Metropolitan seminars in art
Subtitle: great periods in painting
By: by John Canaday.
Contributors: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1959
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Art.
Table of contents: value: A. Glory and grandeur: The classical background.; value: B. Earth, heaven, and hell; man and mystery in the Middle Ages.; value: C. The world rediscovered: the early Renaissance.; value: D. Venus revisited: Classical myths in the Renaissance.; value: E. The world in order: The high Renaissance.; value: F. The world triumphant: The baroque.; value: G. The world dividing: The 18th century.; value: H. The war of illusions: Classicism vs. Romanticism.; value: I. The quick and the dead: Realism vs. the Salon.; value: J. Summer idyl: The flowering of Impressionism.; value: K. Painting in transition: Precursors of Modern art.; value: L. Actaeon and the atom: Art in the contemporary world.