The History of Art in 50 Paintings (Illustrated)

Delphi Classics · Peter Russell

Apr 2017 · Delphi Masters of Art Book 36 · Delphi Classics

About this ebook

 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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Ratings and reviews

I guess I was just looking for different styles of paintings that you might be interested in purchasing to display in your home. But be warned before you surf thru each painting. You will find nudity and if that will offend you as it did me I suggest that you not flip through the pages. I do understand that the artists are only expressing their own perceptions through their work...but I would have added a few fig leaves...LOL!

This is well cool. Learned a lot from reading this. Art, in all its forms, is super important in civilisation and a book like this is like a freakin' time capsule of humanity's journey in the Western world. Highly recommend!