This is a Wonderful The Story of Painting For Young People From Cave Painting to Modern Times 1952 by H W Janson & Dora Jane Janson. It is in very good condition commensurate with age and use with no rips or tears to the book binding or pages. There is however a loose leaf page that I have included an up close photo of for your visual inspection. There is also a bookplate with a saying and 3 pages with a couple of words highlighted in pink. I have also included up close photos of these things for your visual inspection. The dust jacket is in good condition with some wear and tears. This book is as magnificent to see as it is to read.
Summary:
A chronological survey of painting, from stone age to Dali, describing the influence of the times upon artists' techniques, choice of subjects, and schools of art.
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 --
Grünewald --
Dürer --
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 --
Géricault --
Delacroix --
Constable --
Turner --
Three Americans: Hicks, Bingham, Homer --
Courbet --
Manet and Impressionism --
Renoir --
Degas --
Cézanne --
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 --
Miró --
Ernst --
Dali.
The book is a hardcover copy with a dust jacket the dust jacket does have some wear and tears. The book itself is in good condition and has no rips or tears. The book has 164 pages and some color illustrations.
This book would make a wonderful addition to your library or collection or it would make a lovely vintage gift for a collector friend or loved one.
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