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This beautifully illustrated and updated National Gallery Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world. Erika Langmuir offers enlightening commentary on more than 200 of the finest works----by painters including Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velazquez, Ingres, and Degas----from the National Gallery's collection, along with masterpieces by less familiar artists. With this book, readers can trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries; develop an eye for style, technique, imagery, and genre; and learn to appreciate the talents of artists in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts. The book takes into account the latest scholarship from the National Gallery and includes discussions of the museum's newest high-profile acquisitions.
This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents thirty-six masterpieces from the National Gallery's remarkable and unparalleled collection, introducing major artists through their most renowned works. Each of the featured paintings----which together outline the main innovations in art history----is discussed in fascinating detail. Among those included are Van Eyck's Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife, Piero della Francesca's The Baptism of Christ, Botticelli's Venus and Mars, Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin of the Rocks, Durer's Saint Jerome, Michelangelo's The Entombment, Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, Bronzino's An Allegory with Venus and Cupid, Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus, Rembrandt's Belshazzar's Feast, Poussin's A Bacchanalian Revel before a Term of Pan, Velazquez's 'The Rokeby Venus', Vermeer's A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, Turner's The Fighting Temeraire, Ingres' Madame Moitessier, Monet's Bathers at La Grenouillere, Degas' Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando, Cezanne's Self Portrait, Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres, and Van Gogh's Sunflowers.