A thoughtful guide to art appreciation by the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, who belleves that looking at pictures requress active participation, and in the early stages, a certain amount of discipline. He discusses his ways of looking at paintings by Titian, Velasquez, Van der Weyden, Delacroix, Raphael, Watteau. El Greco, vermeer, Constable, Goya, Scurat, Turner, Da Vinci, Courbet, Botticelli, and rembrandt. telling what elements...

Contains primary source material. "Lord Clark evokes the spirit of wartime London, including his part in starting the National Gallery lunch-time concerts."--GoogleBooks

Discussion of five masters of humanistic architecture, painting and sculpture in fifteenth century Italy - Alberti, Donatello, Uccello, Mantegna and Botticelli.

Kenneth Clark discusses thirteen important artists representing one of the greatest periods in the history of art -- the second half of the eighteenth century to the middle of the nineteenth century. During the second half of the eighteenth century, when the spirit of revolution was rising through Europe, a division appeared in all the arts, deeper and more radical than any that had preceded. Rivalry arose between to schools of painting, the Romantic...

Written in the lucid intervals between the bouts of dementia that haunted his final years, 'Praeterita' tells the story of John Ruskin's early life: the formation of his taste and intellect through education, travels in Europe, and encounters with great works of art and artists. In abandoning the traditional linear mode of autobiography, Ruskin opened up the form. He also provided a vivid, detailed portrait of pre-Victorian and Victorian England that...

Here is a publication that for once merits the description "a revelation", in which close-up photography records the powerful and moving imagery of a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture.