Great paintings the world's masterpieces explored and explained

Features works from great artists through the ages including Zhang Zeduan, Rothko, and Botticelli; examines the story behind each piece; and explores the social context of each.

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Other Authors: Hosack, Karen (Contributor), Chilvers, Ian (Contributor), Zaczek, Iain (Contributor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : DK Publishing, 2018.
Edition:American edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Qingming scroll / Zhang Zeduan
  • The lamentation of Christ / Giotto di Bondone
  • The Madonna enthroned / Duccio di Buoninsegna
  • The annunciation / Fra Angelico
  • The Arnolfini portrait / Jan Van Eyck
  • The baptism of Christ / Piero della Francesca
  • The hunt in the forest / Paolo Uccello
  • The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli
  • The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch
  • The great piece of turf / Albrecht Düer
  • Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci
  • The school of Athens / Raphael
  • Sistine Chapel ceiling / Michelangelo
  • Bacchus and Ariadne / Titian
  • The ambassadors / Hans Holbein
  • Spring morning in the Han Palace / Qiu Ying
  • Netherlandish proverbs / Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • Spring / Giuseppe Arcimboldo
  • Cypress tree / Kano Eitoku
  • Akbar's adventures with the elephant Hawa'i in 1561 / Basawan and Chetar
  • David with the head of Goliath / Caravaggio
  • The judgment of Paris / Peter Paul Rubens
  • Charles I on horseback / Anthony van Dyck
  • Self-portrait as "La Pittura" / Artemisia Gentileschi
  • Las meninas / Diego Velázquez
  • Self-portrait / Rembrandt van Rijn
  • The art of painting / Johannes Vermeer
  • Still life with flowers and fruit / Jan van Huysum
  • Marriage à-la-mode : the marriage settlement / William Hogarth
  • Mr. and Mrs. Andrews / Thomas Gainsborough
  • Allegory of the planets and continents / Giambattista Tiepolo
  • An experiment on a bird in the air pump / Joseph Wright of Derby
  • The death of Marat / Jacques-Louis David
  • The Valpinçon bather / Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres
  • The third of May 1808 / Francisco de Goya
  • Wanderer above the sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich
  • The hay wain / John Constable
  • The fighting Temeraire / J.M.W. Turner
  • The artist's studio / Gustave Courbet
  • Olympia / Édouard Manet
  • Arrangement in grey and black, no. 1 / James McNeill Whistler
  • The dancing class / Edgar Degas
  • A Sunday on La Grande Jatte / Georges Seurat
  • Van Gogh's chair / Vincent van Gogh
  • The child's bath / Mary Cassatt
  • Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? / Paul Gauguin
  • The waterlily pond / Claude Monet
  • Lake Keitele / Akseli Gallen-Kallela
  • The large bathers / Paul Cézanne
  • The kiss / Gustav Klimt
  • Composition VII / Wassily Kandinsky
  • Berlin street scene / Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
  • Northern River / Tom Thomson
  • Red balloon / Paul Klee
  • Red canna / Georgia O'Keeffe
  • The metamorphosis of Narcissus / Salvador Dalí
  • Guernica / Pablo Picasso
  • Nighthawks / Edward Hopper
  • Without hope / Frida Kahlo
  • Red interior, still life on a blue table / Henri Matisse
  • Autumn rhythm (number 30) / Jackson Pollock
  • Untitled / Mark Rothko
  • Marilyn / Andy Warhol
  • To a summer's day / Bridget Riley
  • The dance / Paula Rego
  • Athanor / Anselm Kiefer.