Paintings in the National Gallery, London

by Barcham, William; Gentili, Augusto; Whiteley, Linda

• ISBN13: 9780821226957
• ISBN10: 0821226959
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-22
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co

Summary

An exquisite celebration of the exceptional collection of paintings found in the The National Gallery, London. The works in The National Gallery, London, include masterpieces of Renaissance art, the largest collection of Velazquez outside of Spain, early Flemish paintings, Italian Renaissance masterpieces, the Italian Seicento at its height, and works by the greatest French painters. Alternate Selection of Book-of-the-Month Club.

Author Biography

William Barcham is author of Giambattista Tiepolo, European Master Drawings from the Collection of P.J. Sharp, & The Religious Paintings of Giambattista Tiepolo. Augusto Gentili is a Prof. of Art living in Rome who has written extensively and contributed to Lorenzo Lotto. Linda Whiteley is an Instructor of Art at Oxford and a contributor to Tradition & Revolution in French Art,1700-1880.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	6	(1)
Paintings of the National Gallery, London The History of the Collections	7	(4)
Neil MacGregor
Painting in Italy During the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries	11	(11)
Augusto Gentili
Painting in Florence and Tuscany, 1400-1450	22	(11)
Painting of the Fifteenth Century in Flanders and Holland	33	(13)
Painting in Florence and Tuscany, Umbria and the Marches, 1450-1500	46	(38)
Painting in Ferrara and Emilia, 1450-1500	84	(10)
Painting in Venice and the Veneto, 1450-1500	94	(22)
Painting in Flanders, Holland, and France During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	116	(19)
Painting in Germany, Austria, and England During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	135	(19)
Leonardo, Raphael, and (Perhaps) Michelangelo	154	(12)
Painting in Lombardy During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries	166	(16)
Painting in Florence andTuscany, 1500-1550	182	(16)
Painting of the Sixteenth Century in Emilia	198	(22)
Painting of the Sixteenth Century in venice	220	(51)
Toward the Seventeenth Century	271	(5)
Caravaggio and Carracci	276	(10)
William Barcham
Seventeenth-Century Painting in Bologna, Naples, and Rome	286	(21)
Seventeenth-Century Painting in Spain	307	(11)
Seventeenth-Century Painting in Flanders	318	(23)
Seventeenth-Century Painting in Holland	341	(79)
Seventeenth-Century Painting in France	420	(14)
Eighteenth-Century Painting in France	434	(14)
Eighteenth-Century Painting in Venice, Naples, Rome, and Spain	448	(28)
Eighteenth-Century Painting in England	476	(24)
Nineteenth-Century Painting in England	500	(12)
Linda Whiteley
Nineteenth-Century Painting in France	512	(53)
Biographies of the Artists	565	(44)
Bibliography	609	(7)
Index of Artists' Names	616	(1)
Index of Works	617	(6)
Photographic Credits	623