100 Great Artists: A Visual Journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol 9780572031619, 9780517227237, 9781841933498, 0572031610, 0517227231, 184193349X

Table of contents :
Cover......Page 1
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 7
Angelico, Fra......Page 9
Anguissola, Sofonisba......Page 11
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe......Page 13
Bellini, Giovanni......Page 15
Blake, William......Page 17
Bonheur, Rosa......Page 19
Bosch, Hieronymus......Page 21
Botticelli, Sandro......Page 23
Boucher, Francois......Page 25
Bruegel, Pieter......Page 27
Canaletto, Antonio......Page 29
Caravaggio, Michelangelo......Page 31
Cézanne, Paul......Page 33
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste......Page 35
Cimabue, Giovanni......Page 37
Claude Lorrain......Page 39
Cole, Thomas......Page 41
Constable, John......Page 43
Corot, Jean-Baptiste......Page 45
Cotman, John Sell......Page 47
Courbet, Gustave......Page 49
Cranach , Lucas the Elder......Page 51
Dali, Salvador......Page 53
David, Jacques-Louis......Page 55
Degas, Edgar......Page 57
Delacroix, Eugène......Page 59
Duccio di Buoninsegna......Page 61
Durer, Albrecht......Page 63
Eakins, Thomas......Page 65
Friedrich, Caspar David......Page 67
Gainsborough, Thomas......Page 69
Gaugin, Paul......Page 71
Gentileschi, Artemisia......Page 73
Géricault, Théodore......Page 75
Giotto di Bondone......Page 77
Girtin, Thomas......Page 79
Goya, Francisco......Page 81
El Greco......Page 83
Grunewald, Mathias......Page 85
Hals, Frans......Page 87
Hiroshige, Ando......Page 89
Hockney. David......Page 91
Hodler, Ferdinand......Page 93
Hogarth, William......Page 95
Hokusai, Katsushika......Page 97
Holbein, Hans the Younger......Page 99
Homer, Winslow......Page 101
De Hooch. Pieter......Page 103
Hopper. Edward......Page 105
Ingres, Jean-Auguste......Page 107
Kandinsky, Wassily......Page 109
Kauffmann, Angelica......Page 111
Klimt, Gustav......Page 113
Leonardo da Vinci......Page 115
Lorenzetti, Ambrogio......Page 117
Macke, Auguste......Page 119
Magritte, René......Page 121
Malevich, Kasimir......Page 123
Manet, Edouard......Page 125
Mantegna, Andrea......Page 127
Martini, Simone......Page 129
Masaccio, Tommaso......Page 131
Matisse, Henri......Page 133
Michelangelo Buonarroti......Page 135
Millais, John Everett......Page 137
Modigliani, Amedeo......Page 139
Mondrian, Piet......Page 141
Monet, Claude......Page 143
Morisot, Berthe......Page 145
Munch, Edvard......Page 147
Peeters, Clara......Page 149
Picasso, Pablo......Page 151
Piero Della Francesca......Page 153
Pollock, Jackson......Page 155
Popova, Liubov......Page 157
Poussin , Nicolos......Page 159
Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Cécile......Page 161
Raphael Santi......Page 163
Rembrandt van Rijn......Page 165
Renoir, Pierre Auguste......Page 167
Rousseau, Henri......Page 169
Rubens, Peter Paul......Page 171
Savrasov, Alexei......Page 173
Schiele, Egon......Page 175
Seurat, Georges......Page 177
Stubbs, George......Page 179
Tintoretto, Jacopo......Page 181
Titian......Page 183
Turner, Joseph Mallord William......Page 185
Uccello, Paolo......Page 187
Van Der Weyden, Rogier......Page 189
Van Dick, Anthony......Page 191
Van Eyck, Jan......Page 193
Van Gogh, Vincent......Page 195
Velazquez, Diego de Silva y......Page 197
Vermeer, Johannes......Page 199
Veronese. Paolo......Page 201
Warhol, Andy......Page 203
Watteau, Antoine......Page 205
Whistler, James Abbott McNeill......Page 207
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 209

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A visual journey from Fra Angelico to Andy Warhol

Ow-lotte Gerlings

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