Keine zusammenhängende Geschichte der westlichen Malerei, sondern Einflüsse, Inspirationen und Querverbindungen im Werk von 50 bedeutenden Künstlern - von Giotto bis Bridget Riley - werden aufgespürt und erklärt.
David Gariff Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)
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