Great Paintings: The World's Masterpieces Explored and Explained

Contents 4......Page 6
Looking at Paintings 6......Page 9
The Qingming Scroll Zhang Zeduan 10......Page 12
The Lamentation of Christ Giotto di Bondone 14......Page 17
The Madonna Enthroned Duccio di Buoninsegna 18......Page 20
The Annunciation Fra Angelico 22......Page 24
The Arnolfini Portrait Jan van Dyck 26......Page 28
The Baptism of Christ Piero della Francesca 30......Page 33
The Hunt in the Forest Paolo Uccello 34......Page 36
The Birth of Venus Sandro Botticelli 38......Page 40
The Garden of Earthly Delights Hieronymus Bosch 44......Page 46
The Great Piece of Turf Albrecht Dürer 48......Page 50
Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci 50......Page 52
The School of Athens Raphael 54......Page 56
Sistine Chapel Ceiling Michelangelo 58......Page 60
Bacchus and Ariadne Titian 62......Page 65
The Ambassadors Hans Holbein 66......Page 68
Spring Morning in the Han Palace Qiu Ying 70......Page 72
Netherlandish Proverbs Pieter Bruegel The Elder 74......Page 76
Spring Giuseppe Arcimboldo 78......Page 80
Cypress Tree Kano Eitoku 80......Page 82
Akbar\'s Adventures with the Elephant Hawa’i in 1561 Basawan and Chetar 84......Page 86
David with the Head of Goliath Caravaggio 88......Page 90
The Judgement of Paris Peter Paul Rubens 90......Page 92
Charles I on Horseback Anthony van Dyck 94......Page 96
Self-portrait as “La Pittura” Artemisia Gentileschi 96......Page 98
Las Meninas Diego Velázquez 98......Page 101
Self-portrait Rembrandt van Rijn 102......Page 104
The Art of Painting Johannes Vermeer 106......Page 108
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit Jan van Huysum 112......Page 115
Marriage à-la-Mode: the Marriage Settlement William Hogarth 116......Page 118
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Thomas Gainsborough 120......Page 122
Allegory of the Planets and Continents Giambattista Tiepolo 124......Page 126
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump Joseph Wright of Derby 128......Page 130
The Death of Marat Jacques-Louis David 132......Page 134
The Valpinçon Bather Jean-Auguste Dominique Ingres 138......Page 141
The Third of May 1808 Francisco de Goya 142......Page 144
Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog Caspar David Friedrich 146......Page 148
The Hay Wain John Constable 148......Page 150
The Fighting Temeraire J. M. W. Turner 152......Page 154
The Artist\'s Studio Gustave Courbet 156......Page 158
Olympia Édouard Manet 160......Page 162
Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 1 James McNeill Whistler 164......Page 166
The Dancing Class Edgar Degas 168......Page 170
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte Georges Seurat 172......Page 174
Van Gogh’s Chair Vincent van Gogh 176......Page 179
The Child\'s Bath Mary Cassatt 180......Page 182
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Paul Gauguin 182......Page 184
The Waterlily Pond Claude Monet 186......Page 188
Lake Keitele  Akseli Gallen-Kallela 192......Page 194
The Large Bathers Paul Cézanne 194......Page 196
The Kiss Gustav Klimt 198......Page 200
Composition VII Wassily Kandinsky  202......Page 204
Berlin Street Scene Ernst Ludwig Kirchner 206......Page 208
Northern River Tom Thomson 208......Page 210
Red Balloon Paul Klee 210......Page 212
Red Canna Georgia O\'Keeffe 212......Page 214
The Metamorphosis of Narcissus Salvador Dalí 214......Page 216
Guernica Pablo Picasso 218......Page 220
Nighthawks Edward Hopper 222......Page 224
Without Hope Frida Kahlo 226......Page 228
Red Interior, Still Life on a Blue Table Henri Matisse 230......Page 232
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) Jackson Pollock 234......Page 236
Untitled Mark Rothko 238......Page 240
Marilyn Andy Warhol 240......Page 242
To a Summer\'s Day Bridget Riley 242......Page 244
The Dance Paula Rego 244......Page 246
Athanor Anselm Kiefer 246......Page 248
Glossary 248......Page 250
Index 250......Page 252
Acknowledgments 255......Page 257