How to Read a Painting: Decoding, Understanding and Enjoying the Old Masters - Softcover

Rynck, Patrick De

 
9780500512005: How to Read a Painting: Decoding, Understanding and Enjoying the Old Masters
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0500512000 ISBN 13: 9780500512005
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Clues to the meaning of the masterpieces of art history lie in a rich system of symbols, themes and motifs that often elude the modern eye. Without the intimate knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology, folklore and Christian theology so vivid in the minds of the artists and familiar to their public, we often miss the visual hints that gave contemporary meaning to a painting.

How to Read a Painting draws our attention to the imagery and the wonderful, apparently inconsequential details in paintings by Giotto, Botticelli, El Greco, Michelangelo, Rubens, Vermeer, Hogarth, Gainsborough and many more. Brief yet illuminating explanations accompany over 900 colour illustrations, providing the means to interpret and enjoy these and many other works.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Patrick de Rynck is a classicist and translator. He is the author of several books, including How to Read a Painting and Understanding Paintings, both published by Thames & Hudson.

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This illuminating, anecdotal, portable book - with 1000 gorgeous colour illustrations - helps to fill in these gaps by decoding the imagery of more than 150 of the most influential and admired artworks of all time. Covering the works of the Italian, Dutch, German and Spanish Old Masters, from 1350 to 1750 - paintings by sych artists as Giotto, Botticelli, El Greco, Bruegel, Holbein, Rubens and Vermeer - 'How To Read A Painting' helps the viewer to understand the significant details of a picture and also explains the relationship with similar imagery in other works.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500512000
ISBN 13 
9780500512005
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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