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The paintings that revolutionized art

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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.

Edition Notes

Previous edition: 2013.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
759
Library of Congress
N5300 .P35 2015, ND36

The Physical Object

Pagination
282 pages
Number of pages
282

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27198473M
Internet Archive
paintingsthatrev0000unse
ISBN 10
3791381539
ISBN 13
9783791381534
LCCN
2015931132
OCLC/WorldCat
905097315

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