What makes a masterpiece
Subtitle: artists, writers and curators on the world's greatest works of art
By: edited by Christopher Dell
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780500238790
Subjects: Artistic Masterpiece
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-295) and index.
Table of contents: title: The birth of art : up to 500 BC; title: The art of power : 500 BC-AD 1000; title: The blending of cultures : 1000-1300; title: A new beginning : 1300-1500; title: Perfecting the art : 1500-1600; title: Past and present : 1600-1800; title: Towards the modern world : after 1800.; title: The Chauvet cave / Jean Clottes; title: The Mycerinus triad / Tom Phillips; title: Olmec colossal head 8 / Michael D. Coe; title: Ashurbanipal's lion hunt / Julian Reade; title: The "New York kouros" / Jaś Elsner; title: The "seven against Thebes" relief / Giovanni Colonna; title: The Ludovisi "throne" / Robin Osborne; title: The Riace bronzes / Robin Osborne; title: The lady of Elche / Rubí Sanz Gamo; title: The Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii / Mary Beard; title: The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius / Nancy H. Ramage; title: The Buddha preaching the first sermon / John Guy; title: The Virgin and Child with angels and two saints / Jaś Elsner; title: Moche portrait vessel / Christopher B. Donnan; title: The relief of Ahkal Mo' Nahb III, ruler of Palanque / Michael D. Coe; title: Zhang Zeduan, Spring festival on the river / Roderick Whitfield; title: Vishnu reclining on the serpent Anantha / John Guy; title: The Vézelay tympanum / Jean-René Gaborit; title: The Cefalù mosaics / John Julius Norwich; title: The reclining Buddha of Polonnaruwa / Antony Gormley; title: Unkei, Muchaku and Seshin / Donald F. McCallum; title: The stained glass of Chartres Cathedral / Painton Cowen; title: Ife copper mask / Suzanne Preston Blier; title: Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes / Giuseppe Basile; title: Kim U-mun and other artists, Water-moon Avalokiteshvara / Youngsook Pak; title: Claus Sluter, the "Well of Moses" / Susie Nash; title: Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, the Ghent altarpiece / Christopher Dell; title: Masaccio and Masolino, the Brancacci Chapel frescoes / Ornella Casazza; title: Fra Angelico (and Lorenzo Monaco), The Deposition / Magnolia Scudieri; title: Rogier van der Weyden, The descent from the cross / Gabriele Finaldi; title: Donatello, David / Ulrich Pfisterer; title: Aztec eagle knight / Susan Toby Evans; title: Piero della Francesca, the Montefeltro altarpiece / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin; title: Alessandro Botticelli, The birth of Venus / Paul Joannides; title: Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait / Ulrich Pfisterer; title: Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo (Mona Lisa) / Martin Kemp; title: Giovanni Bellini, the San Zaccaria altarpiece / Peter Humfrey; title: Hieronymus Bosch, The garden of earthly delights / Grayson Perry; title: Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel ceiling / William E. Wallace; title: Raphael, The school of Athens / Ingrid D. Rowland; title: Matthias Grünewald, the Isenheim altarpiece / Joseph Leo Koerner; title: Titian, The Assumption of the Virgin / Francesco da Mosto; title: Sultan Muhammad, The court of Gayumars / David J. Roxburgh; title: Qiu Ying and Lu Shidao, Pavilions in the mountains of the immortals / Craig Clunas; title: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The proverbs / Stephan Kemperdick; title: Tintoretto, The Crucifixion / Quentin Blake; title: El Greco, The burial of the Count of Orgaz / Xavier Bray; title: Caravaggio, The supper at Emmaus / Helen Langdon; title: Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith slaying Holofernes / Germaine Greer; title: Bichitr, Portrait of Jahangir preferring a Sufi shaikh to kings / Deborah Swallow; title: Peter Paul Rubens, Minerva protects Pax from war ("Peace and war") / David Jaffé; title: Rembrandt van Rijn, The night watch / Christopher Dell; title: Gianlorenzo Bernini, The ecstasy of Saint Teresa / Marina Warner; title: Nicolas Poussin, The Phocion paintings / Pierre Rosenberg; title: Diego Velázquez, Las meninas / Avigdor Arikha; title: Johannes Vermeer, The art of painting / Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.; title: Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, The jar of olives / Pierre Rosenberg; title: Utamaro, "Lovers" from Erotic book: the poem of the pillow / Julie Nelson Davis; title: Francisco de Goya, The third of May, 1808 / Manuela Mena Marqués; title: Caspar David Friedrich, The wanderer above the sea and mist / Werner Busch; title: Eugène Delacroix, Liberty leading the people / Barthélemy Jobert; title: J.M.W. Turner, The burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834 / Andrew Wilton; title: Thomas Cole, The oxbow / Michael J. Lewis; title: Claude Monet, Wild poppies / John House; title: Edgar Degas, Le petite danseuse de quatorze ans / Quentin Blake; title: Édouard Manet, A bar at the Folies-Bergère / Philip Pullman; title: Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers / Louis van Tilborgh; title: Auguste Rodin, Iris, messenger of the gods / Anthony Caro; title: Paul Cézanne, Apples and oranges / Christopher Dell; title: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Dust motes dancing in the sunbeams (Sunbeams) / Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark.