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"In the 120 years that divide Hogarth's early works around 1730 from the death of Turner in 1851, Britain's status as an artistic nation was dramatically transformed. From being a provincial backwater, it became one of the most progressive in Europe. Hogarth himself brought modern life into painting and treated it with high moral seriousness disguised as satire. Ramsay, Reynolds, Gainsborough and Lawrence revolutionized portraiture, introducing a...

Overview of painting over the last 800 years, including more than 450 color reproductions and an in depth analysis of over 30 of the most famous paintings.

Text with commentary accompanying the illustrations, summarizes the artistic qualities of all the major and minor painters of the Italian renaissance.

48 colour plates of the work of many different artists, from the pioneering Cubism of Picasso and Braque to Kupka's Orphism with its emphasis on colour relationships; from Duchamp's Futurist experiments to the stylized objects in still-lifes of Juan Gris; from Mondrian with his geometrical arrangements to the frenziedly worked pigments of Jackson Pollock. The plates are complemented by a lucid essay and notes by Denis Thomas, a well-known writer on...

A comprehensive record of the greatest achievements in the history of western art from the medieval era to the post-impressionist world, from Botticelli to Van Gogh.

"Vacillating between the majesty of the Greco-Byzantine heritage and the modernity forecasted by Giotto, Early Italian painting summarises the first steps that lead to the Renaissance. Trying out new mediums, those first artists left frescoes for removable panels. If the sacred faces shock us novices, this distance was more than wanted during this era and in order to emphasize the divinity of the characters, it highlighted their divinity comforted...