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Art history is filled with paintings that shocked, intrigued, enraged, and mystified their audiences - paintings that exemplified the period in which they were created and forever changed the way we think. Here, 100 examples of these icons of art are presented in beautiful, high-quality reproductions. Each double-page spread features comparative illustrations and details as well as engaging texts that explain why the painting belongs in the pantheon of world-changing art.
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Table of Contents
Icon of Christ Pantokrator --
The Book of Kells --
Frescoes in the Arena Chapel -- Giotto
Maestà -- Duccio
Annunciation with Saint Margaret and Saint Ansanus -- Simone Martini
Allegories of good and bad government -- Ambrogio Lorenzetti
The Wilton Diptych --
Très riches heures of Jean, Duke of Berry -- Limbourg Brothers
Frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel -- Masaccio
The Arnolfini portrait -- Jan van Eyck
Descent from the Cross -- Rogier van der Weyden
The miraculous draft of fishes -- Konrad Witz
Madonna of the rose bower -- Stefan Lochner
Flagellation of Christ -- Piero della Francesca
Portrait of a young girl -- Petrus Christus
Saint George and the dragon -- Paolo Uccello
Birth of Venus -- Botticelli
Lamentation over the dead Christ -- Andrea Mantegna
The garden of earthly delights -- Hieronymus Bosch
Self-portrait -- Albrecht Dürer
Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan -- Giovanni Bellini
Mona Lisa (La gioconda) -- Leonardo da Vinci
The tempest -- Giorgione
The creation of Adam -- Michelangelo
Saint George and the dragon -- Albrecht Altdorfer
The Sistine Madonna -- Raphael
Isenheim altarpiece -- Matthias Grunewald
Assumption of the Virgin (Assunta) -- Titian
Portrait of Martin Luther's father -- Lucas Cranach the Elder
The ambassadors -- Hans Holbein
Madonna with the long neck -- Parmigianino
An allegory with Venus and Cupid -- Agnolo Bronzino
Landscape with the fall of Icarus -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Gabrielle d'Estrées and one of her sisters -- School of Fontainebleau
Galleria Farnese -- Annibale Carracci
View of Toledo -- El Greco
Amor vincit omnia -- Caravaggio
The rape of the daughters of Leucippus -- Peter Paul Rubens
Vanitas still life -- Pieter Claesz
Judith beheading Holofernes -- Artemisia Gentileschi
The night watch -- Rembrandt
Las Meninas (The family of Philip IV) -- Diego Velázquez
Girl with a pearl earring -- Johannes Vermeer
Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles -- Jean-Antoine Watteau
The washerwoman -- Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
Mr. And Mrs. Robert Andrews -- Thomas Gainsborough
The swing -- Jean-Honoré Fragonard
An experiment on a bird in the air pump -- Joseph Wright of Derby
The nightmare -- Henry Fuseli
Marie Antoinette en Gaulle -- Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
The death of Marat -- Jacques-Louis David
Freedom or death -- Jean-Baptiste Regnault
The Hülsenbeck children -- Philipp Otto Runge
The monk by the sea -- Caspar David Friedrich
La grande Odalisque -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
The 3rd of May 1808 in Madrid: the executions on Principe Pio Hill -- Francisco Goya
The raft of the Medusa -- Théodore Géricault
The death of Sardanapalus -- Eugène Delacroix
The great wave off Kanagawa -- Katsushika Hokusai
The poor poet -- Carl Spitzweg
Rain, steam, and speed-- the Great Western Railway -- Joseph Mallord William Turner
A burial at Ornans -- Gustave Courbet
Villa by the sea II -- Arnold Böcklin
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe -- Édouard Manet
Arrangement in grey and black no. 1: the artist's mother -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Impression, sunrise -- Claude Monet
The iron-rolling mill (Modern cyclops) -- Adolph Menzel
Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) -- John Singer Sargent
Montagne Sainte-Victoire -- Paul Cézanne
The starry night -- Vincent van Gogh
I lock my door upon myself -- Fernand Khnopff
The scream -- Edvard Munch
The boating party -- Mary Cassatt
Self-portrait on her sixth wedding anniversary -- Paula Modersohn-Becker
Adele Bloch-Bauer I -- Gustav Klimt
Harmony in red (The red room) -- Henri Matisse
The dream -- Henri Rousseau
Impression III (Concert) -- Wassily Kandinsky
Potsdamer Platz -- Ludwig Kirchner
Tamara in the green Bugatti (Self-portrait) -- Tamara de Lempicka
Black s
quare on a white ground -- Kazimir Malevich
The dancer Anita Berber -- Otto Dix
The pillars of society -- George Grosz
The Virgin Mary chastising the baby Jesus before three witnesses: André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the artist -- Max Ernst
The treachery of images (This is not a pipe) -- René Magritte
American Gothic -- Grant Wood
The persistence of memory -- Salvador Dalí
Guernica -- Pablo Picasso
The two Fridas -- Frida Kahlo
Nighthawks -- Edward Hopper
Three studies for figures at the base of a crucifixion -- Francis Bacon
Full fathom five -- Jackson Pollock
Flag -- Jasper Johns
Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? -- Richard Hamilton
Homage to the square -- Josef Albers
Campbell's Soup cans -- Andy Warhol
Ema (Nude on a staircase) -- Gerhard Richter
A bigger splash -- David Hockney
The wood on its head -- Georg Baselitz
Benefits supervisor sleeping -- Lucian Freud.
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