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Author:

Crenshaw, Paul.

Title:

Discovering the great masters : the art lover's guide to understanding symbols in paintings / Paul Crenshaw with Rebecca Tucker & Alexandra Bonfante-Warren.

Publisher:

Universe,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

308 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm.

Subject:

Painting.
Symbolism in art.

Other Authors:

Tucker, Rebecca.
Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: Jupiter and Semele / Last judgement / Gustave Moreau. Secrets of the animal world. Adoration of the Magi / Gentile da Fabriano -- Arnolfini portrait ; Ghent altarpiece ; Chancellor Rolin Madonna / Jan van Eyck -- Annunciaton ; Deposition from the cross / Rogier van der Weyden -- Christ mocked / Fran Angelico -- Triumph of Federico da Montefeltro / Piero Della Francesca -- Portinari altarpiece / Hugo van der Goes -- St. Jerome in his stuidy / Domenico Ghirlandaio -- Adoration of the Magi / Leonardo da Vinci -- La primavera (spring) / Sandro Botticelli -- Marriage of the virgin / Pietro Perugino -- Virgin and child enthroned with Saints / Giovanni Bellini -- Birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli -- Madonna della Vittoria ; Pallas Athena expelling the vices / Andrea Mantegna -- Last supper ; Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci -- Doni tondo / Michelangelo -- Garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- Madonna of the meadow ; School of Athens / Raphael -- Mars and Venus / Piero di Cosimo -- Three philosophers / Giorgione -- Adoration of the trinity / Albrecht Durer -- Isenheim altarpiece / Matthias Grünewald -- Banker and his wife / Quinten Metsys -- Bacchanal of the andrians / Titian -- Last judgment / Michelangelo -- Enigmas of architecture -- Madonna and child / Joos van Cleve -- French ambassadors / Hans Holbein the younger -- Christian Allegory / Jan Provost -- Decoding flowers and fruit. Allegory of immortality / Giulio Romano -- St. Luke painting the virgin / Maerten van Heemskerck -- Fight between carnival and lent / Pieter Bruegel the elder -- Allegory of vanity / Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus) -- Burial of the Count of Orgaz / El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) -- Feast in the house of Levi / Paolo Caliari called Veronese -- Calling of St. Matthew / Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) -- Apelles paints campaspe / Joos van Winghe -- Allegory of sight / Jan Breughel the elder, Peter Paul Rubens -- Minerva's victory over ignorance / Bartholomaeus Spranger -- Education of Marie de' Medici / Peter Paul Rubens -- Artist's studio / Jan Miense Molenaer -- Time vanquished by hope and beauty / Simon Vouet -- Fortitude brings peace and plenty / Eustache le Suerur -- Consequences of war / Peter Paul Rubens -- Eucharist in fruit wreath / Jan Davidsz. de Heem -- Vanitas (self portrait) / David Bailly -- Banquet of the bean king / Jacob Jordaens -- Spinners (the fable of Arachne) / Diego Velázquez -- In luxury, look out / Jan Steen -- Gathering of manna / Nicolas Poussin -- In Ictu Oculi (in the twinkling of and eye) / Juan de Valdés Leal -- Las Meninas / Diego Velázquez -- Art of painting / Johannes Vermeer -- Secret language of myth -- Spell / Francisco de Goya -- Liberty leading the people / Eugene Delacroix -- Apotheosis of Homer / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Jupiter and Semele / Gustave Moreau.

ISBN:

0789318911 (hc.)
9780789318916 (hc.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)297147151

LCCN:

2009901015

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

KSPG296 -- Burlington Public Library (Burlington)

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)