The History of Art in 50 Paintings (Illustrated)

This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed the course of art as we know it. Whether an art novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this eBook offers you an intriguing overview of the world’s most famous and iconic artworks. Illustrated with over 500 full colour images, it builds upon Delphi’s groundbreaking Masters of Art Series — the world’s first digital e-Art books. Through the analysis of 50 famous and innovative paintings, the eBook charts the shifting movements and styles of Western art, from the early beginnings of the Italian Renaissance to the daring wonders of the twentieth century. (Version 1)

* Includes reproductions of art’s most monumental paintings


* Concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information on each artist and artwork


* Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore the celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional print art books


* Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders


* Easily locate the paintings you wish to view with a linked contents table


* Chart the history of art in chronological order

Please note: due to existing copyrights, Picasso and Matisse are unable to appear in the eBook.

CONTENTS:

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JOACHIM by Giotto


THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN by Masaccio


THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT by Jan van Eyck


THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST by Piero della Francesca


PRIMAVERA by Sandro Botticelli


THE LAST SUPPER by Leonardo da Vinci


SELF PORTRAIT, 1498 by Albrecht Dürer


PORTRAIT OF DOGE LEONARDO LOREDAN by Giovanni Bellini


MONA LISA by Leonardo da Vinci


THE LAST JUDGMENT by Michelangelo


THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS by Raphael


SLEEPING VENUS by Giorgione


ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN by Titian


THE PEASANT WEDDING by Pieter Bruegel the Elder


THE LAST SUPPER by Tintoretto


CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW by Caravaggio


JUDITH SLAYING HOLOFERNES by Artemisia Gentileschi


ET IN ARCADIA EGO by Nicolas Poussin


THE EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA by Claude Lorrain


LAS MENINAS by Diego Velázquez


PEACE AND WAR by Sir Peter Paul Rubens


THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING by Johannes Vermeer


SELF PORTRAIT WITH PALETTE AND BRUSHES by Rembrandt van Rijn


THE ENTRANCE TO THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE by Canaletto


THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT by William Hogarth


THE SWING by Jean-Honoré Fragonard


THE BLUE BOY by Thomas Gainsborough


OATH OF THE HORATII by Jacques-Louis David


THE NUDE MAJA by Francisco de Goya


THE HAY WAIN by John Constable


WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG by Caspar David Friedrich


LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE by Eugène Delacroix


THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE by J. M. W. Turner


OLYMPIA by Édouard Manet


IMPRESSION, SUNRISE by Claude Monet


PROSERPINE by Dante Gabriel Rossetti


THE DANCING CLASS by Edgar Degas


NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD: THE FALLING ROCKET by James Abbott McNeill Whistler


AT THE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE by Pierre-Auguste Renoir


MADAME X by John Singer Sargent


STILL LIFE: VASE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS by Vincent van Gogh


THE SCREAM by Edvard Munch


WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? by Paul Gauguin


THE LARGE BATHERS by Paul Cézanne


THE KISS by Gustav Klimt


PORTRAIT OF WALLY by Egon Schiele


SMALL PLEASURES by Wassily Kandinsky


SEATED NUDE by Amedeo Modigliani


RED BALLOON by Paul Klee


TABLEAU I by Piet Mondrian

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