From Giotto to Cezanne: A Concise History of Painting (World of Art)

by LEVEY,MICHAEL

• ISBN13: 9780500200247
• ISBN10: 0500200246
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1985-02-17
• Publisher: THAMES&HUD

Summary

'Outstanding...accurate, free from prejudice, always neat, often stimulating. No better introduction to western painting has ever been produced.

Table of Contents

The Early Renaissance in Italy	9	(56)
Giotto and his contemporaries in Florence
Duccio and the Sienese painters
`International Gothic'
Florence in the first half of the fifteenth century: Masaccio, Angelico, Uccello, Lippi, Pollaiuolo
Botticelli and the later fifteenth century in Florence
Piero della Francesca
Mantegna and painting in North Italy
Giovanni Bellini and Venice
The Renaissance in Northern Europe	65	(36)
Van Eyck and Flemish painting
Fouquet
`International Gothic' at Prague
The Cologne school
Durer, Grunewald, Holbein and German painting
Bosch and Bruegel
The Later Renaissance in Europe	101	(52)
Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael
Painting in Florence
Correggio and Parmigianino
The school of Fontainebleau
Hilliard
Giorgione, Titian and Venetian painting
North Italian painting
Tintoretto and Veronese
El Greco
The Seventeenth Century	153	(58)
Caravaggio and his influence
The Bolognese painters
Painting in Rome
Poussin, Claude and French painting
Rubens and van Dyck
Painting in England
Velasquez and Spain
Dutch painting: Rembrandt, Vermeer, genre, still-life, landscape and seascape
From the Rococo to Goya	211	(48)
Watteau and French painting
Chardin - Venice and the Venetians
Decorative painting in Europe - Genre
Canaletto and Guardi - Tiepolo
Painting in Britain: satire, decoration, animal painting, portraits
Gainsborough and Reynolds
Classicism in Italy and France - Goya
From Romanticism to Cezanne	259	(54)
Fuseli - Blake
Portraits and landscape in Britain - Turner and Constable
Romantic painting in Germany
Gericault and Delacroix - Ingres
Daumier - The Barbizon painters
English Pre-Raphaelites
Courbet - Impressionism: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Seurat - Whistler
Gauguin - van Gogh - Cezanne
List of Illustrations	313