Essential Books on Art; Illustrated (12 books)

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Giorgio Vasari 1912
Thoughts on Art and Life, Leonardo da Vinci 1906
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Complete 1888
Memoirs of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries, Albrecht Durer (1471-1528)
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, John Addington Symonds 1893
The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, Bernhard Berenson 1896
A Text-Book of the History of Painting, (Illustrated) John C. van Dyke 1894
A History Of Greek Art, F. B. Tarbell 1919
Concerning the Spiritual in Art, Wassily Kandinsky 1914
The Psychology of Beauty, Ethel D. Puffer 1906
Seven Discourses on Art, Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792)
Hopes and Fears for Art, William Morris 1919

Western Art History Guide (Mobi Study Guides)

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An illustrated comprehensive Art History Guide from prehistoric to postmodern periods. Navigate from TOC or search for words or phrases. FREE Prehistoric Art chapter in the trial version.

Audience

Audience: Intended for everyone interested in art history, particularly undergraduate and graduate students and advanced high school students.

Features

  • Fully illustrated.
  • Detailed explanations of each period.
  • Always have the guide available for a quick reference.
  • Search for the words or phrases
  • Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page
  • Add Bookmarks

Table of Contents

PREHISTORIC ART: Palaeolithic | Mesolithic | Neolithic | Bronze age | Iron age

ANCIENT ART: Ancient Egyptian Art | Arts of the Ancient Aegean | Greek Art: historical periods, architecture, pottery, sculpture | Roman Art

EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE: Early and Imperial Christianity | Byzantine

MEDIEVAL ART: Celtic art | Migration Period | Romanesque art | Gothic art

THE RENAISSANCE: From Gothic to the Renaissance | Early Renaissance: Donatello, Filippo Brunelleschi, Masaccio | High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Santi. | Northern Renaissance | Renaissance Architecture

MANNERISM, BAROQUE, AND ROCOCO: Mannerism | Baroque | Rococo

NEOCLASSICISM, ROMANTICISM, AND REALISM: Neoclassicism | Romanticism | Realism

MODERN ART: Overview | Impressionism: Art Movement, Édouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet | Post-Impressionism: Art Movement, Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | Fauvism | Expressionism | Cubism | Surrealism | Dada | Futurism | Suprematism | Constructivism | Abstract Expressionism | Pop art: Art Movement, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg.

CONTEMPORARY AND POSTMODERN ART: Conceptual art | Stuckism | Postmodern art


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