The paintings that revolutionized art
By: editorial direction, Claudia Stäuble ; project management, Julie Kiefer ; translated from the German by Philippa Hurd
Edition: [Special edition].
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9783791381534
Subjects: Painting; Art; History
Description: Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged, and mystified their audiences - paintings that exemplified the period in which they were created and forever changed the way we think. Here, 100 examples of these icons of art are presented in beautiful, high-quality reproductions. Each double-page spread features comparative illustrations and details as well as engaging texts that explain why the painting belongs in the pantheon of world-changing art.
Notes: Previous edition: 2013.

Edition statement from publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Icon of Christ Pantokrator --; title: The Book of Kells --; title: Frescoes in the Arena Chapel  -- Giotto; title: Maestà  -- Duccio; title: Annunciation with Saint Margaret and Saint Ansanus  -- Simone Martini; title: Allegories of good and bad government  -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti; title: The Wilton Diptych --; title: Très riches heures of Jean, Duke of Berry  -- Limbourg Brothers; title: Frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel  -- Masaccio; title: The Arnolfini portrait  -- Jan van Eyck; title: Descent from the Cross  -- Rogier van der Weyden; title: The miraculous draft of fishes  -- Konrad Witz; title: Madonna of the rose bower  -- Stefan Lochner; title: Flagellation of Christ  -- Piero della Francesca; title: Portrait of a young girl  -- Petrus Christus; title: Saint George and the dragon  -- Paolo Uccello; title: Birth of Venus  -- Botticelli; title: Lamentation over the dead Christ  -- Andrea Mantegna; title: The garden of earthly delights  -- Hieronymus Bosch; title: Self-portrait  -- Albrecht Dürer; title: Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan  -- Giovanni Bellini; title: Mona Lisa (La gioconda)  -- Leonardo da Vinci; title: The tempest  -- Giorgione; title: The creation of Adam  -- Michelangelo; title: Saint George and the dragon  -- Albrecht Altdorfer; title: The Sistine Madonna  -- Raphael; title: Isenheim altarpiece  -- Matthias Grunewald; title: Assumption of the Virgin (Assunta)  -- Titian; title: Portrait of Martin Luther's father  -- Lucas Cranach the Elder; title: The ambassadors  -- Hans Holbein; title: Madonna with the long neck  -- Parmigianino; title: An allegory with Venus and Cupid  -- Agnolo Bronzino; title: Landscape with the fall of Icarus  -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder; title: Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters  -- School of Fontainebleau; title: Galleria Farnese  -- Annibale Carracci; title: View of Toledo  -- El Greco; title: Amor vincit omnia  -- Caravaggio; title: The rape of the daughters of Leucippus  -- Peter Paul Rubens; title: Vanitas still life  -- Pieter Claesz; title: Judith beheading Holofernes  -- Artemisia Gentileschi; title: The night watch  -- Rembrandt; title: Las Meninas (The family of Philip IV)  -- Diego Velázquez; title: Girl with a pearl earring  -- Johannes Vermeer; title: Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles  -- Jean-Antoine Watteau; title: The washerwoman  -- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin; title: Mr. And Mrs. Robert Andrews  -- Thomas Gainsborough; title: The swing  -- Jean-Honoré Fragonard; title: An experiment on a bird in the air pump  -- Joseph Wright of Derby; title: The nightmare  -- Henry Fuseli; title: Marie Antoinette en Gaulle  -- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun; title: The death of Marat  -- Jacques-Louis David; title: Freedom or death  -- Jean-Baptiste Regnault; title: The Hülsenbeck children  -- Philipp Otto Runge; title: The monk by the sea  -- Caspar David Friedrich; title: La grande Odalisque  -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; title: The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid: the executions on Principe Pio Hill  -- Francisco Goya; title: The raft of the Medusa  -- Théodore Géricault; title: The death of Sardanapalus  -- Eugène Delacroix; title: The great wave off Kanagawa  -- Katsushika Hokusai; title: The poor poet  -- Carl Spitzweg; title: Rain, steam, and speed-- the Great Western Railway  -- Joseph Mallord William Turner; title: A burial at Ornans  -- Gustave Courbet; title: Villa by the sea II  -- Arnold Böcklin; title: Le déjeuner sur l'herbe  -- Édouard Manet; title: Arrangement in grey and black no. 1: the artist's mother  -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler; title: Impression, sunrise  -- Claude Monet; title: The iron-rolling mill (Modern cyclops)  -- Adolph Menzel; title: Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)  -- John Singer Sargent; title: Montagne Sainte-Victoire  -- Paul Cézanne; title: The starry night  -- Vincent van Gogh; title: I lock my door upon myself  -- Fernand Khnopff; title: The scream  -- Edvard Munch; title: The boating party  -- Mary Cassatt; title: Self-portrait on her sixth wedding anniversary  -- Paula Modersohn-Becker; title: Adele Bloch-Bauer I  -- Gustav Klimt; title: Harmony in red (The red room)  -- Henri Matisse; title: The dream  -- Henri Rousseau; title: Impression III (Concert)  -- Wassily Kandinsky; title: Potsdamer Platz  -- Ludwig Kirchner; title: Tamara in the green Bugatti (Self-portrait)  -- Tamara de Lempicka; title: Black s; title: quare on a white ground  -- Kazimir Malevich; title: The dancer Anita Berber  -- Otto Dix; title: The pillars of society  -- George Grosz; title: The Virgin Mary chastising the baby Jesus before three witnesses: André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the artist  -- Max Ernst; title: The treachery of images (This is not a pipe)  -- René Magritte; title: American Gothic  -- Grant Wood; title: The persistence of memory  -- Salvador Dalí; title: Guernica  -- Pablo Picasso; title: The two Fridas  -- Frida Kahlo; title: Nighthawks  -- Edward Hopper; title: Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion  -- Francis Bacon; title: Full fathom five  -- Jackson Pollock; title: Flag  -- Jasper Johns; title: Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?  -- Richard Hamilton; title: Homage to the square  -- Josef Albers; title: Campbell's Soup cans  -- Andy Warhol; title: Ema (Nude on a staircase)  -- Gerhard Richter; title: A bigger splash  -- David Hockney; title: The wood on its head  -- Georg Baselitz; title: Benefits supervisor sleeping -- Lucian Freud.