From Fra Angelico to Bonnard : Masterpieces from the Rau Collection

by RESTELLINI, MARC

• ISBN13: 9788881188024
• ISBN10: 8881188023
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Skira

Summary

One hundred and six paintings by great masters -- presented in Europe for the first time -- chronicle the evolving history of European art between the 15th and 19th centuries. Great masterpieces take visitors on a tour of the Italian (Beato Angelico, Crivelli, Luini, Reni, Caracciolo, Canaletto, Bellotto, Tiepolo), Flemish and Dutch (Terbrugghen, Van Goyen, Ruisdael), German (Cranach the Elder), Spanish (El Greco, Ribera), English (Wright, Reynolds, Gainsborough) and French (Millet, de la Tour, Le Brun, Greuze, Fragonard) schools.

The even richer and more significant modern painting section of the Rau collection constitutes a complete record of the course of the Impressionist movement from its beginnings to maturity, from the forerunners (Corot, Courbet, Boudin) and Bazille's emblematic Fisherman with a Net to all the great Impressionist masters such as Monet (represented by six splendid masterpieces), Renoir, Manet, Caillebotte, Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt, Sisley and Cezanne. These are followed by the Nabis (with works by Serusier, Vallotton, Bonnard, Vuillard

Table of Contents

From Fra Angelico to Pierre Bonnard Masterpieces from the Rau Collection	13	(8)
Marc Restellini
Paintings
The Italian School	21	(32)
The Flemish and Dutch School	53	(28)
The German School	81	(14)
The French School	95	(26)
The Spanish School	121	(10)
The British School	131	(8)
The Impressionist Revolution	139	(66)
Symbolism and Nabis	205	(30)
Fauvism	235	(12)
Expressionism	247	(10)
After 1940	257	(7)
Appendixes
List of Illustrations	264	(2)
Timeline	266