Description: What Paintings Say : 100 Masterpieces in Detail, Hardcover by Hagen, Rose-Marie; Hagen, Rainer, ISBN 3836559269, ISBN-13 9783836559263, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the worlds most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture.
Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel from Ancient Egypt through to modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties. We meet Greek heroes and poor German poets and roam from cathedrals to cabaret bars, from the Garden of Eden to a Garden Bench in rural France.
As we pick apart each painting and then reassemble it like a giant jigsaw puzzle, these celebrated canvases captivate not only in their sheer wealth of details but also in the witness they bear to the fashions and trends, people and politics, loves and lifestyles of their time.
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Book Title: What Great Paintings Say. Masterpieces in Detail
Number of Pages: 664 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Taschen
Item Height: 1.8 in
Publication Year: 2016
Topic: Criticism & Theory, General, History / General
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art
Item Weight: 35.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.1 in
Author: Taschen, Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Hardcover
