Extraordinary reference book of over 80 famous painters, their lives, their loves, and their iconic paintings.This art book includes insightful biographies of artists accompanied with remarkable reproductions of their famous artworks. Begin with the early Renaissance and follow art movements through the centuries to some of the most well-known artists alive today.A gorgeous exploration of the defining people of the art world including pioneers such as Giotto and Jan van Eyck, the greats like Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael, and the visionaries like Frida Kahlo and Hokusai. The large format art book is overflowing with information and pictures of your favourite classics. The full-page prints are especially spectacular, allowing you to get the full effect of the work that inspired, defined, and encapsulated art movements.Over 500 years of the craft is discussed, with the chapters organised by century starting with "Before 1500" and ending with "1945 - Present". Each chapter features the relevant painters of those years with its own directory. Read about the historical context of art movements in sections which include timelines and fact panels giving incredible insight into the art world, the past lives of artists and their visions and techniques. Discover the unconventional stories of the artists' lives, including their influences, developments, friendships, loves, and rivalries. Read about the portraits that Holbein did for Henry VIII to play matchmaker, Caravaggio's astonishing reaction to a badly cooked artichoke, and the many romantic affairs of Picasso. Sometimes scandalous and often tumultuous, the lives of artists such as Raphael, Hogarth, van Gogh, O'Keeffe, Magritte, Warhol, and Kiefer are as interesting and captivating as their work. The Artists Behind the Paint BrushesA beautiful coffee table book that would make a lovely gift for those interested in art history, artist biographies or to browse the attractive reproductions of the famous artworks. Includes a foreword by Ross King who is the author of the bestselling Brunelleschi's Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, as well as the novels Ex-Libris and Domino.- Over 80 biographies of the standout artists over the centuries since the early Renaissance.- Beautiful reproductions of artworks that allow you to get up close to their brush strokes.- Insight into historical art themes and movements that influenced the periods.
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1: Foreword2: Before 15001: Giotto2: Jan van Eyck3: Donatello4: Masaccio5: Piero della Francesca6: Giovanni Bellini7: Sandro Botticelli8: Hieronymus Bosch9: Directory3: 16th Century1: Leonardo da Vinci2: Wen Zhengming3: Albrecht Dürer4: Michelangelo5: Titian6: Raphael7: Hans Holbein8: Pieter Bruegel the Elder9: El Greco10: Directory4: 17th Century1: Caravaggio2: Peter Paul Rubens3: Artemisia Gentileschi4: Nicolas Poussin5: Gianlorenzo Bernini6: Anthony van Dyck7: Diego Velázquez8: Kano Tan’yu9: Rembrandt10: Jan Vermeer11: Wang Hui12: Directory5: 18th Century 1: Jeong Seon 2: Jean-Antoine Watteau 3: Giambattista Tiepolo 4: Canaletto 5: William Hogarth 6: Jean-Siméon Chardin 7: Ito Jakuchu 8: Thomas Gainsborough 9: Jean-Honoré Fragonard 10: John Singleton Copley 11: Franciso de Goya 12: Jacques-Louis David 13: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun 14: Antonio Canova 15: Directory6: 19th Century 1: Katsushika Hokusai 2: Caspar David Friedrich 3: J M W Turner 4: John Constable 5: Eugène Delacroix 6: Gustave Courbet 7: Dante Gabriel Rossetti 8: Edouard Manet 9: James McNeill Whistler 10: Edgar Degas 11: Paul Cézanne 12: Auguste Rodin 13: Claude Monet 14: Henri Rousseau 15: Ilya Repin 16: Paul Gauguin 17: Vincent van Gogh 18: Directory7: Early 20th Century 1: Gustav Klimt 2: Edvard Munch 3: Wassily Kandinsky 4: Henri Matisse 5: Piet Mondrian 6: Constantin Brancusi 7: Paul Klee 8: Pablo Picasso 9: Edward Hopper 10: Amedeo Modigliani 11: Marc Chagall 12: Georgia O’Keeffe 13: René Magritte 14: Henry Moore 15: Directory8: 1945 to present 1: Alberto Giacometti 2: Mark Rothko 3: Salvador Dalí 4: Frida Kahlo 5: Francis Bacon 6: Jackson Pollock 7: Bernard Buffet 8: Andy Warhol 9: Anish Kapoor 10: Takashi Murakami 11: Directory9: Index of artworks10: General index11: Acknowledgments
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Step into the studios of art's most iconic names.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241226186
Publisert
2017
Utgiver
Vendor
DK
Vekt
2132 gr
Høyde
308 mm
Bredde
260 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Biographical note

Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented numerous landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed A History of British Art, Renaissance and Art of Eternity, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. He has a long history of public service in the field of the visual arts, having judged the Turner Prize, the BP National Portrait Prize and the Annual British Animation Awards, among many other prizes. He has served on the Government Art Collection Committee, the Hayward Advisory Committee, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.