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Masterpieces in Detail
What is the saint placing on the scales ? Why are the people in this workshop wearing sumptuous clothing ? Whose portraits has the artist painted in the mirror ? What are sharks' teeth and corals used as charms against ? These are the questions we sometimes ask when we look at a great painting. They are also the kind of questions Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen have put to the masterpieces collected in this book. Their answers offer an unusually accessible account of the fashions and faiths, trends and intrigues, loves, loose morals and lifestyles of times past.
What Great Paintings Say
Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen provide answers to these and other questions about world-famous works of art. Guiding our eye to revealing details, they also shed fascinating light on fishions and lifestyles, loves and intrigues, politics and people, and transform our encounter with art into an exciting adventure. Book jacket.
What Great Paintings Say
These are the kinds of question Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen ask when faced with world-famous masterpieces. In the language of today they comment on the fashions and attitudes, trends and intrigues, love, vice and lifestyles of past times. Book jacket.
What Great Paintings Say
Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen answer questions about the meaning behind the artistic symbolism in many famous paintings. Their answers provide a highly accessible account of the fashions and faiths, trends, and intrigues, loves, loose morals and lifestyles of times past.
Chagall
Modernism.
Francisco de Goya
Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was recognised from a very early age as the leading artist in Spain, rising to become the official portraitist of the Spanish Court. He was famed for the quality and speed at which he executed his drawings, and his etchings are of extraordinary delicacy. His use of chiaroscuro in his dark, intense paintings influenced many artists, including Manet. This monograph presents the essential works of this pioneering artist, today considered the father of modern art. Book jacket.
Bruegel
With an acute sense of observation and subjects ranging from the biblical tower of Babel to the small-town festivals of peasant life, the master draftsman Pieter Bruegel the Elder provides a unique witness to both the religious mores and the close-knit folk culture of his time.
What Great Paintings Say
Art history's most important nudes bare all in this fascinating investigation into the covert historical and narrative details of naked masterworks. Through the revealing lens of authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen--and with crisp, enlarged details and in-depth analytical essays--deities, lovers, and otherworldly creatures alike cease to be two-...
16th Century Paintings
The authors analyze eighteen important 16th century paintings, while providing background information on their painters and history. Includes dozens of full color reproductions.
Francisco Goya, 1746-1828
An artist both of and before his time: The Old Master who ushered in the modern era Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828), one of Spain's most revered and controversial painters, is known for his intense, chilling, and sometimes grotesque paintings depicting the injustice of society with brutal sincerity. A court painter to the Spanish crown, he captured, through his works, a snapshot of life in Spain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Coming at the tail end of the Old Masters period, Goya, with his audacious, subversive, and highly influential works, can be considered the first painter of the modern era. His influence can be seen in the works of artists as varied as Pablo Picasso and Francis Bacon. About the Series: Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions.
