The National Gallery Companion Guide

The National Gallery Companion Guide PDF Author: National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: National Gallery London
ISBN: 9780300074819
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This beautifully illustrated and updated National Gallery Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world. Erika Langmuir offers enlightening commentary on more than 200 of the finest works - by painters including Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, and Degas - from the National Gallery's collection, along with masterpieces by less familiar artists.

The National Gallery

The National Gallery PDF Author: Erika Langmuir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781857097030
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The National Gallery Companion Guide celebrates over 200 masterpieces from one of the finest art collections in the world. The reader is guided through the history of the Western European painting tradition, from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries, with engaging commentaries that illuminate each artist's unique contribution. This comprehensive, newly designed edition has been revised and expanded to feature recent acquisitions by Artemisia Gentileschi, Edgar Degas and Thomas Lawrence, alongside much-loved works by artists ranging from Leonardo and Raphael to Van Gogh and Picasso.

A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland

A Companion Guide to the National Gallery of Scotland PDF Author: National Gallery of Scotland
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
"The National Gallery of Scotland is widely regarded as one of the finest smaller galleries in the world. The collection includes the greatest names in Western art such as Raphael, Titian, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Rubens, Watteau, Tiepolo, Canova and many of the impressionists and post-impressionists. It also contains the most comprehensive collection of Scottish art with masterpieces by Ramsay, Raeburn and Wilkie, as well as a host of less familiar names who all made their own contributions to one of the most distinctive of the smaller national schools. This book offers a guide to the collection as well as an accessible and informative introduction to the history of art."--Back cover.

The Companion Guide to London

The Companion Guide to London PDF Author: David Piper
Publisher: Companion Guides
ISBN: 9781900639361
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 488

Book Description
One of the classic Companion Guides, this is devoted to the city of London. Each volume in the series aims to provide a travel companion in the person of the author, who knows intimately the places and people of which he or she writes.

The Obama Portraits

The Obama Portraits PDF Author: Taína Caragol
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203288
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
Unveiling the unconventional : Kehinde Wiley's portrait of Barack Obama / Taína Caragol -- "Radical empathy" : Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama / Dorothy Moss -- The Obama portraits, in art history and beyond / Richard J. Powell -- The Obama portraits and the National Portrait Gallery as a site of secular pilgrimage / Kim Sajet -- The presentation of the Obama portraits : a transcript of the unveiling ceremony.
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