The History of Art in 50 Paintings (Illustrated)

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This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed the course of art as we know it. Whether an art novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this eBook offers you an intriguing overview of the world's most famous and iconic artworks. Illustrated with over 500 full colour images, it builds upon Delphi's groundbreaking Masters of Art Series — the world's first digital e-Art books. Through the analysis of 50 famous and innovative paintings, the eBook charts the shifting movements and styles of Western art, from the early beginnings of the Italian Renaissance to the daring wonders of the twentieth century. (Version 1)

  • Includes reproductions of art's most monumental paintings

  • Concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information on each artist and artwork

  • Enlarged 'Detail' images, allowing you to explore the celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional print art books

  • Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders

  • Easily locate the paintings you wish to view with a linked contents table

  • Chart the history of art in chronological order

    Please note: due to existing copyrights, Picasso and Matisse are unable to appear in the eBook.

    CONTENTS:

    SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JOACHIM by Giotto

    THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN by Masaccio

    THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT by Jan van Eyck

    THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST by Piero della Francesca

    PRIMAVERA by Sandro Botticelli

    THE LAST SUPPER by Leonardo da Vinci

    SELF PORTRAIT, 1498 by Albrecht Dürer

    PORTRAIT OF DOGE LEONARDO LOREDAN by Giovanni Bellini

    MONA LISA by Leonardo da Vinci

    THE LAST JUDGMENT by Michelangelo

    THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS by Raphael

    SLEEPING VENUS by Giorgione

    ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN by Titian

    THE PEASANT WEDDING by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

    THE LAST SUPPER by Tintoretto

    CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW by Caravaggio

    JUDITH SLAYING HOLOFERNES by Artemisia Gentileschi

    ET IN ARCADIA EGO by Nicolas Poussin

    THE EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA by Claude Lorrain

    LAS MENINAS by Diego Velázquez

    PEACE AND WAR by Sir Peter Paul Rubens

    THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING by Johannes Vermeer

    SELF PORTRAIT WITH PALETTE AND BRUSHES by Rembrandt van Rijn

    THE ENTRANCE TO THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE by Canaletto

    THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT by William Hogarth

    THE SWING by Jean-Honoré Fragonard

    THE BLUE BOY by Thomas Gainsborough

    OATH OF THE HORATII by Jacques-Louis David

    THE NUDE MAJA by Francisco de Goya

    THE HAY WAIN by John Constable

    WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG by Caspar David Friedrich

    LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE by Eugène Delacroix

    THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE by J. M. W. Turner

    OLYMPIA by Édouard Manet

    IMPRESSION, SUNRISE by Claude Monet

    PROSERPINE by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

    THE DANCING CLASS by Edgar Degas

    NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD: THE FALLING ROCKET by James Abbott McNeill Whistler

    AT THE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

    MADAME X by John Singer Sargent

    STILL LIFE: VASE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS by Vincent van Gogh

    THE SCREAM by Edvard Munch

    WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? by Paul Gauguin

    THE LARGE BATHERS by Paul Cézanne

    THE KISS by Gustav Klimt

    PORTRAIT OF WALLY by Egon Schiele

    SMALL PLEASURES by Wassily Kandinsky

    SEATED NUDE by Amedeo Modigliani

    RED BALLOON by Paul Klee

    TABLEAU I by Piet Mondrian

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