The Story Of Painting For Young People

H W Janson & Dora Jane Janson

Published by Harry N. Abrams. Inc Publishers, 1952

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Comprehensive History of painting meant for easy translation as an international textbook.164 pp. book itself unmarked Dust jacket has a long repaired tear on the front. Not price clipped Contents: How painting began -- The old Stone Age -- Egypt -- Crete -- Greece and Rome -- The Middle Ages -- Early Christians and Byzantines -- Illuminated manuscripts -- Charlemagne -- Romanesque and Gothic -- Giotto and Italian painting -- International style -- Explorers and discoverers -- The Van Eycks -- Roger van der Weyden -- Other late Gotchic painters -- Masaccio and the early Renaissance -- Fra Angelico -- Fra Filippo Lippi -- Piero della Francesca -- Castagno -- Mantegna -- Ghirlandaio -- Botticelli -- Piero di Cosimo -- The age of genius -- The High Renaissance in Italy -- Leonardo -- Michelangelo -- Raphael -- Giorgione -- Titian -- Veronese -- Correggio -- The Renaissance in the North -- Grù newald -- Dù rer -- Holbein -- Brueghel -- Mannerism -- Rosso -- Parmigianino -- Tintoretto -- El Greco -- The triumph of light -- The Baroque, a new international style -- Caravaggio -- Rubens -- The Utrecht School -- Hals -- Rembrandt -- Van Goyen -- Ruisdael -- Still life and genre painters -- Vermeer -- Velazquez -- Poussin and the French Academy -- Towards revolution -- Watteau and Rococo painting -- Chardin -- Greuze -- The rise of English and American painting -- Hogarth -- Gainsborough -- West -- Copley -- David and the French Revolution -- The age of machines -- The era of Napoleon -- Ingres -- Goya -- The Romantics -- Gè ricault -- Delacroix -- Constable -- Turner -- Three Americans: Hicks, Bingham, Homer -- Courbet -- Manet and Impressionism -- Renoir -- Degas -- Cè zanne -- Seurat -- Van Gogh -- Gauguin -- Munch -- Toulouse-Lautrec -- Rousseau -- Painting in our own time -- What about the "isms?" -- Matisse, the "wild beasts," and Expressionism -- Modigliani -- Beckmann -- Marin -- Rouault -- Picasso -- Cubism and Abstraction -- Mondrian -- Fantastic art -- De Chirico -- Chagall -- Klee -- Mirò -- Ernst -- Dali.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Story Of Painting For Young People
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams. Inc Publishers
• Publication Date: 1952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
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