What Great Paintings Say, Volumen2Taschen, 2003 - 432 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Foreword | 9 |
Group portrait with empress | 17 |
An angel in the living room | 28 |
Jerusalem on the horizon | 35 |
An Italian in Bruges | 41 |
The Kings mistress posing as the Virgin | 53 |
A Small Saint in a Vasty Building | 59 |
Looking back to the Middle Ages | 65 |
In praise of lies and deceit | 119 |
The music of the spheres on earthly | 125 |
When wings no longer soar | 131 |
Sodom burns while those who have escaped | 143 |
The jewel in Saxonys crown | 310 |
Yesterdays people | 323 |
The tomb with no one in | 340 |
Journey to a realm of light and colour | 358 |
A grim male ballet | 71 |
The Sinner and the Eccentric | 89 |
How Bellini imagined a city | 100 |
The man the naked woman and the bolt | 107 |
Heavens gates are already opened to receive | 113 |
The queen murders her children | 377 |
Dancing on a Sunday on Montmartre | 395 |
A dream of the South and of death | 412 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
What Great Paintings Say: Old Masters in Detail, Volumen2 Rose-Marie Hagen,Rainer Hagen Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
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