TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lowis,Kristina
AU  - Pickeral,Tamsin
TI  - 50 paintings you should know
SN  - 9783791341989
AV  - ND 1145 .L69 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Munich, New York
PB  - Prestel
KW  - Painting
KW  - Appreciation
KW  - Painters
KW  - Biography
KW  - Pintura
N1  - Includes index; The Arena Chapel / Giotto di Bondone -- The tribute money / Tommaso Masaccio -- The Arnolfini portrait / Jan van Eyck -- The annunciation / Fra Angelico -- The dead Christ / Andrea Mantegna -- The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli -- Self-portrait at twenty-eight / Albrecht Durer -- The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci -- La tempesta / Giorgione -- The creation of Adam / Michelangelo -- School of Athens / Raphael -- The Isenheim altarpiece / Mattias Grunewald -- The Venus of Urbino / Titian -- The wedding at Cana / Paolo Veronese -- The tower of Babel / El Greco -- View of Toledo / El Greco -- The death of the virgin / Caravaggio -- The night watch / Rembrandt van Rijn -- Las meninas / Diego Velazquez -- Girl with a pearl earring / Jan Vermeer -- Death of Marat / Jacques-Louis David -- The skating minister / Henry Raeburn -- The third of May, 1808 / Francisco de Goya -- Grande Odalisque / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres --; The wanderer above the sea of fog / Caspar David Friedrich -- The raft of the medusa / Theodore Gericault -- Liberty leading the people / Eugene Delacroix -- Rain, steam and speed / William Turner -- Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe / Edouard Manet -- The artist's mother / James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- Impression-sunrise / Claude Monet -- The starry night / Vincent van Gogh -- The child's bath / Mary Cassatt -- The scream / Edvard Munch -- Mont Sainte-Victoire / Paul Cezanne -- Les demoiselles d'Avignon / Pablo Picasso -- The kiss / Gustav Klimt -- La danse / Henri Matisse -- The dream / Henri Rousseau -- Impression III (concert) / Wassily Kandinsky -- Black square / Kasimir Malevich -- Petunia No. 2 / Georgia O'Keeffe -- American gothic / Grant Wood -- The persistence of memory / Salvador Dali -- The two Fridas / Frida Kahlo -- Nighthawks / Edward Hopper -- Autumn rhythm no. 30 / Jackson Pollock -- Black on maroon / Mark Rothko -- Campbell's soup cans / Andy Warhol -- Glossary -- Index, photo credits
N2  - Presents fifty paintings by major artists from the Renaissance to the twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work and a timeline for the artist
ER  -