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Much more than just another ordinary survey of art history, this absorbing, heavily illustrated volume reveals the always interesting and often surprising cross-influences and connections among 50 of the most important painters in European and American art. Handsome and enlightening illustrated spreads present "trees of influence," each of which focuses on a major artist or significant school of art. Included are time lines, reproductions of paintings, and capsule analyses of the works being discussed. For example, a two-page spread on the seventeenth-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer shows readers
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The World's Most Influential Painters and the Artists They Inspired, David Gariff
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- Released
- 2008
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- Title
- The World's Most Influential Painters and the Artists They Inspired
- Language
- English
- Authors
- David Gariff
- Publisher
- Barron's
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 192
- ISBN10
- 0764160885
- ISBN13
- 9780764160882
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, Art
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Much more than just another ordinary survey of art history, this absorbing, heavily illustrated volume reveals the always interesting and often surprising cross-influences and connections among 50 of the most important painters in European and American art. Handsome and enlightening illustrated spreads present "trees of influence," each of which focuses on a major artist or significant school of art. Included are time lines, reproductions of paintings, and capsule analyses of the works being discussed. For example, a two-page spread on the seventeenth-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer shows readers