Masterpieces from the National Gallery

by Erika Langmuir

• ISBN13: 9781857093735
• ISBN10: 1857093739
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2007-03-28
• Publisher: National Gallery London

Summary

This handsomely designed and illustrated book presents thirty-six masterpieces from the National Gallery's remarkable and unparalleled collection, introducing major artists through their most renowned works. Each of the featured paintingswhich together outline the main innovations in art historyis discussed in fascinating detail. Among those included are Van Eyck'sPortrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his Wife,Piero della Francesca'sThe Baptism of Christ,Botticelli'sVenus and Mars, Leonardo da Vinci'sThe Virgin of the Rocks, Durer'sSaint Jerome, Michelangelo'sThe Entombment,Titian'sBacchus and Ariadne,Bronzino'sAn Allegory with Venus and Cupid,Caravaggio'sThe Supper at Emmaus,Rembrandt'sBelshazzar's Feast,Poussin'sA Bacchanalian Revel before a Term of Pan,Velazquez's'The Rokeby Venus', Vermeer'sA Young Woman Standing at a Virginal, Turner'sThe Fighting Temeraire,Ingres'Madame Moitessier,Monet'sBathers at La Grenouillere,Degas'Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando,Cezanne'sSelf Portrait,Seurat'sBathers at Asnieres,and Van Gogh'sSunflowers.

Author Biography

Erika Langmuir was head of education at the National Gallery from 1988 to 1995. She is co-author of the Yale Dictionary of Art and Artists and author of the National Gallery Companion Guide, several titles from the best-selling National Gallery Pocket Guides series, and the forthcoming Imagining Childhood: Themes in the Imagery of Childhood, all published by Yale University Press.