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The Lives of the Artists » Read Now
by Giorgio Vasari. 598 pgs.

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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through...
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These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. This new translation, specially commissioned for the World's Classics series, contains thirty-six of the most important lives and is fully annotated.
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Painting of the Golden Age: A Biographical Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century European Painters » Read Now
by Adelheid M. Gealt. 778 pgs.

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Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters. Almost 300--mainly Dutch, Flemish...
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Reference materials on European painting of the seventeenth century are generally restricted to a roster of a few dozen great masters such as Rembrandt, Rubens, Caravaggio, and Velazquez, but this Golden Age produced hundreds of prodigiously talented painters. Almost 300--mainly Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and Spanish--are here given biographical coverage based on an extensive bibliography of contemporaneous, later, and recent scholarship. Attention is focused on training, travel, commissions, stylistic influences and legacy, and pupils. For each artist, the oeuvre is analyzed with reference to major works, and a detailed list of additional works with museum holdings is appended. References are keyed to the backmatter bibliography, and museum citations refer to a list of 183 collections around the world. An appendix groups the featured artists by nationality, and an index completes the volume.
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New Art in America: Fifty Painters of the 20th Century » Read Now
by John I. H. Baur. 283 pgs.

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...American art. By the 1890's our painters were just beginning to experiment...brought to this country for the famous Armory Show, which extended...Armory Show of 1913. After...
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Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin » Read Now
by John Rewald. 619 pgs.

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Neo-Impressionist Painters: A Sourcebook on Georges Seurat, Camille Pissarro, Paul Signac, Theo Van Rysselberghe, Henri Edmond Cross, Charles Angrand, Maximilien Luce, and Albert Dubois-Pillet » Read Now
by Russell T. Clement, Annick Houze. 396 pgs.

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This reference provides biographical, historical, and critical information on Neo-Impressionist painting and its most significant painters. Neo-Impressionism, also called Divisionism and Pointillism, was one of the most innovative and startling late 19th-century French avant-garde styles. Over 2,000...
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This reference provides biographical, historical, and critical information on Neo-Impressionist painting and its most significant painters. Neo-Impressionism, also called Divisionism and Pointillism, was one of the most innovative and startling late 19th-century French avant-garde styles. Over 2,000 books, articles, manuscripts, and audiovisual materials as well as chronologies, biographical sketches, and exhibition lists are cited. Also provided are both primary and secondary bibliographies for each artist. Secondary bibliographies capture details about each artist's life and career, relationships with other artists, work in various media, iconography, critical reception and interpretation, archival sources and more.
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A Century of British Painters » Read Now
by Samuel Redgrave, Samuel Richard, Ruthven Todd. 612 pgs.

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...the works of the portrait painters alone. Captain William Baillie 1723-1810 , famous as an etcher and an amateur...again, the fair fame of painters and the reputation of...
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Modern English Painters: Sickert to Smith » Read Now
by John Rothenstein. 256 pgs.

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The German Expressionists: A Generation in Revolt » Read Now
by Bernard S. Myers. 401 pgs.

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...troubadour. His famous woodcut series Dance...distinguish between good painters like Runge and Friedrich...coming more from the painters unhappiness than...posters such as...
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German Masters of Art » Read Now
by Helen A. Dickinson. 286 pgs.

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...drawings took the place of the painters illuminations...great hall were the deeds of famous pagan and Christian heroes...the Romanesque basilicas. Two famous monuments of...
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The Italian Painters of the Renaissance » Read Now
by Bernard Berenson. 488 pgs.

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French XVIII Century Painters: Watteau, Boucher, Chardin, La Tour, Greuze Fragonard » Read Now
by Edmond de Goncourt, Jules de Goncourt. 418 pgs.

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Early Netherlandish Painting: From Van Eyck to Bruegel » Read Now
by Max J. Friedlænder. 430 pgs.

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Canadian Painters, from Paul Kane to the Group of Seven » Read Now
by Donald W. Buchanan. 118 pgs.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists » Read Now
by Ian Chilvers. 584 pgs.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Second Edition is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art from Ancient Greece to the present day. It offers over two thousand entries on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, covering not only artists and their work, but also...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Second Edition is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art from Ancient Greece to the present day. It offers over two thousand entries on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, covering not only artists and their work, but also patrons and dealers, collectors and writers, materials and techniques, and museums and galleries. For this new edition much new material has been added on twentieth-century art, including subjects such as Neo-Expressionism and the Turner Prize. Written in clear, lively prose, this invaluable reference maintains a careful balance between fact and appraisal. In its pages, we encounter artists ranging from Polyclitus of Argos to Leonardo da Vinci, from Grandma Moses to Mary Cassatt, from Max Beckmann to Andy Warhol. Here also are periods and movements, including the Classical period, the Renaissance, the Ancients, Impressionism, the Ash-can School, and Cubism, as well as techniques and styles such as encaustic painting, encarnado, lithography, cabinet painting, and blot drawing. For this abridgement, Ian Chilvers has retained all of the essential features of the original while adding new entries and eliminating the more peripheral articles. By presenting the information in a pithier format, he is able to focus more sharply on Western and Western-inspired art. The dictionary also provides a very helpful cross-referencing system for names, art media, styles, and terms. Art enthusiasts of every kind will find this entirely reliable and highly readable volume indispensable.
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Encyclopedia of Painting: Painters and Painting of the World from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day » Read Now
by Bernard S. Myers. 514 pgs.

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