An edition of What makes a masterpiece
(2010)
What makes a masterpiece
artists, writers and curators on the world's greatest works of art
by Christopher Dell
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What makes a masterpiece: artists, writers and curators on the world's greatest works of art
2010, Thames & Hudson
in English
0500238790 9780500238790
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Table of Contents
The birth of art : up to 500 BC
The art of power : 500 BC-AD 1000
The blending of cultures : 1000-1300
A new beginning : 1300-1500
Perfecting the art : 1500-1600
Past and present : 1600-1800
Towards the modern world : after 1800.
The Chauvet cave / Jean Clottes
The Mycerinus triad / Tom Phillips
Olmec colossal head 8 / Michael D. Coe
Ashurbanipal's lion hunt / Julian Reade
The "New York kouros" / Jaś Elsner
The "seven against Thebes" relief / Giovanni Colonna
The Ludovisi "throne" / Robin Osborne
The Riace bronzes / Robin Osborne
The lady of Elche / Rubí Sanz Gamo
The Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii / Mary Beard
The equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius / Nancy H. Ramage
The Buddha preaching the first sermon / John Guy
The Virgin and Child with angels and two saints / Jaś Elsner
Moche portrait vessel / Christopher B. Donnan
The relief of Ahkal Mo' Nahb III, ruler of Palanque / Michael D. Coe
Zhang Zeduan, Spring festival on the river / Roderick Whitfield
Vishnu reclining on the serpent Anantha / John Guy
The Vézelay tympanum / Jean-René Gaborit
The Cefalù mosaics / John Julius Norwich
The reclining Buddha of Polonnaruwa / Antony Gormley
Unkei, Muchaku and Seshin / Donald F. McCallum
The stained glass of Chartres Cathedral / Painton Cowen
Ife copper mask / Suzanne Preston Blier
Giotto, the Scrovegni Chapel frescoes / Giuseppe Basile
Kim U-mun and other artists, Water-moon Avalokiteshvara / Youngsook Pak
Claus Sluter, the "Well of Moses" / Susie Nash
Hubert and Jan Van Eyck, the Ghent altarpiece / Christopher Dell
Masaccio and Masolino, the Brancacci Chapel frescoes / Ornella Casazza
Fra Angelico (and Lorenzo Monaco), The Deposition / Magnolia Scudieri
Rogier van der Weyden, The descent from the cross / Gabriele Finaldi
Donatello, David / Ulrich Pfisterer
Aztec eagle knight / Susan Toby Evans
Piero della Francesca, the Montefeltro altarpiece / Marilyn Aronberg Lavin
Alessandro Botticelli, The birth of Venus / Paul Joannides
Albrecht Dürer, Self-portrait / Ulrich Pfisterer
Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo (Mona Lisa) / Martin Kemp
Giovanni Bellini, the San Zaccaria altarpiece / Peter Humfrey
Hieronymus Bosch, The garden of earthly delights / Grayson Perry
Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel ceiling / William E. Wallace
Raphael, The school of Athens / Ingrid D. Rowland
Matthias Grünewald, the Isenheim altarpiece / Joseph Leo Koerner
Titian, The Assumption of the Virgin / Francesco da Mosto
Sultan Muhammad, The court of Gayumars / David J. Roxburgh
Qiu Ying and Lu Shidao, Pavilions in the mountains of the immortals / Craig Clunas
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The proverbs / Stephan Kemperdick
Tintoretto, The Crucifixion / Quentin Blake
El Greco, The burial of the Count of Orgaz / Xavier Bray
Caravaggio, The supper at Emmaus / Helen Langdon
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith slaying Holofernes / Germaine Greer
Bichitr, Portrait of Jahangir preferring a Sufi shaikh to kings / Deborah Swallow
Peter Paul Rubens, Minerva protects Pax from war ("Peace and war") / David Jaffé
Rembrandt van Rijn, The night watch / Christopher Dell
Gianlorenzo Bernini, The ecstasy of Saint Teresa / Marina Warner
Nicolas Poussin, The Phocion paintings / Pierre Rosenberg
Diego Velázquez, Las meninas / Avigdor Arikha
Johannes Vermeer, The art of painting / Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, The jar of olives / Pierre Rosenberg
Utamaro, "Lovers" from Erotic book: the poem of the pillow / Julie Nelson Davis
Francisco de Goya, The third of May, 1808 / Manuela Mena Marqués
Caspar David Friedrich, The wanderer above the sea and mist / Werner Busch
Eugène Delacroix, Liberty leading the people / Barthélemy Jobert
J.M.W. Turner, The burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834 / Andrew Wilton
Thomas Cole, The oxbow / Michael J. Lewis
Claude Monet, Wild poppies / John House
Edgar Degas, Le petite danseuse de quatorze ans / Quentin Blake
Édouard Manet, A bar at the Folies-Bergère / Philip Pullman
Vincent Van Gogh, Sunflowers / Louis van Tilborgh
Auguste Rodin, Iris, messenger of the gods / Anthony Caro
Paul Cézanne, Apples and oranges / Christopher Dell
Vilhelm Hammershøi, Dust motes dancing in the sunbeams (Sunbeams) / Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-295) and index.
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