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This stunning eBook is a concise illustrated guide, evaluating the masterpieces that have changed the course of art as we know it. Whether an art novice or a cultivated connoisseur, this eBook offers you an intriguing overview of the worlds most famous and iconic artworks. Illustrated with over 500 full colour images, it builds upon Delphis groundbreaking Masters of Art Series the worlds first digital e-Art books. Through the analysis of 50 famous and innovative paintings, the eBook charts the shifting movements and styles of Western art, from the early beginnings of the Italian Renaissance to the daring wonders of the twentieth century. (Version 1)
* Includes reproductions of arts most monumental paintings
* Concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information on each artist and artwork
* Enlarged Detail images, allowing you to explore the celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional print art books
* Hundreds of images in colour highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders
* Easily locate the paintings you wish to view with a linked contents table
* Chart the history of art in chronological order
Please note: due to existing copyrights, Picasso and Matisse are unable to appear in the eBook.
CONTENTS:
SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JOACHIM by Giotto
THE EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN by Masaccio
THE ARNOLFINI PORTRAIT by Jan van Eyck
THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST by Piero della Francesca
PRIMAVERA by Sandro Botticelli
THE LAST SUPPER by Leonardo da Vinci
SELF PORTRAIT, 1498 by Albrecht Drer
PORTRAIT OF DOGE LEONARDO LOREDAN by Giovanni Bellini
MONA LISA by Leonardo da Vinci
THE LAST JUDGMENT by Michelangelo
THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS by Raphael
SLEEPING VENUS by Giorgione
ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN by Titian
THE PEASANT WEDDING by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
THE LAST SUPPER by Tintoretto
CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW by Caravaggio
JUDITH SLAYING HOLOFERNES by Artemisia Gentileschi
ET IN ARCADIA EGO by Nicolas Poussin
THE EMBARKATION OF THE QUEEN OF SHEBA by Claude Lorrain
LAS MENINAS by Diego Velzquez
PEACE AND WAR by Sir Peter Paul Rubens
THE GIRL WITH THE PEARL EARRING by Johannes Vermeer
SELF PORTRAIT WITH PALETTE AND BRUSHES by Rembrandt van Rijn
THE ENTRANCE TO THE GRAND CANAL, VENICE by Canaletto
THE MARRIAGE SETTLEMENT by William Hogarth
THE SWING by Jean-Honor Fragonard
THE BLUE BOY by Thomas Gainsborough
OATH OF THE HORATII by Jacques-Louis David
THE NUDE MAJA by Francisco de Goya
THE HAY WAIN by John Constable
WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG by Caspar David Friedrich
LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE by Eugne Delacroix
THE FIGHTING TEMERAIRE by J. M. W. Turner
OLYMPIA by douard Manet
IMPRESSION, SUNRISE by Claude Monet
PROSERPINE by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
THE DANCING CLASS by Edgar Degas
NOCTURNE IN BLACK AND GOLD: THE FALLING ROCKET by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
AT THE MOULIN DE LA GALETTE by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
MADAME X by John Singer Sargent
STILL LIFE: VASE WITH TWELVE SUNFLOWERS by Vincent van Gogh
THE SCREAM by Edvard Munch
WHERE DO WE COME FROM? WHAT ARE WE? WHERE ARE WE GOING? by Paul Gauguin
THE LARGE BATHERS by Paul Czanne
THE KISS by Gustav Klimt
PORTRAIT OF WALLY by Egon Schiele
SMALL PLEASURES by Wassily Kandinsky
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First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

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Foreword

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Art is long, life is short, goes the old adage, and arranging a limited number of paintings to represent the numerous developments and styles of Western art is by all standards a Herculean task. However, it is the aim of this digital edition to present to the general reader a comprehensive account of fifty of the most celebrated and influential paintings of art history. From the earliest beginnings of the Italian Renaissance to the abstract modernism of the twentieth century, this is an intriguing journey exploring the many shifts and innovations of the art world. Each of the fifty paintings is introduced with a concise explanation of its author, its genesis and interesting contextual information connected to the artwork. Following the paintings introduction, a full-size reproduction plate will follow, along with several detail plates and other illustrations associated with the painting and featured artist.

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Scenes from the Life of Joachim by Giotto

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Around 1305 Giotto (1266-1337), a Florentine painter of the late Middle Ages, regarded by many as the father of European painting and the first of the great Italian masters, produced his most influential work, the painted decoration of the interior of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua. Enrico degli Scrovegni commissioned the chapel to serve as a family worship and burial space, even though his parish church was nearby; its construction caused some concern among the clerics at the Eremitani church next door. The chapel is externally a very plain building of pink brick, constructed next to an older palace that Scrovegni was restoring for himself. The palace, now gone, and the chapel were on the site of a Roman arena, for which reason it is commonly known as the Arena Chapel. It has been suggested that Enrico commissioned the chapel as penitence for his sin of usury, which at the time was considered unjust. Dante himself accused Enricos father of the occupation and condemned him in his Divine Comedy .

The theme of the decoration is Salvation and there is an emphasis on the Virgin Mary, as the chapel is dedicated to the Annunciation and to the Virgin of Charity. As is common in similar projects in medieval Italy, the west wall is dominated by the Last Judgement . The cycle is divided into 37 scenes, arranged around the lateral walls in three tiers, starting in the upper register with the story of Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Virgin, and continuing with the story of Mary. The Life of Jesus occupies two registers. The Last Judgment fills the entire pictorial space of the counter-faade.

Much of the blue in the fresco has been worn away by time, because Scrovegni ordered that the expensive pigment ultramarine blue should be painted on top of the already dry fresco (secco fresco) to preserve its brilliance. For this reason it has disintegrated faster than the other colours that have been fastened within the plaster of the fresco. An example of this decay can clearly be seen on the robe of Christ as he sits on the donkey.

The six scenes concerning the story of Joachim and Anne, located in the top tier on the right wall, narrate how Joachim was expelled from the temple due to his childlessness, explaining how the angel appeared to Anne with news she would bear a child. The third image tells how Joachim made a sacrificial offering that was pleasing to God. Next, an angel appears to him in a dream, announcing the arrival of a daughter named Mary. The series concludes with an illustration of how Joachim returns to Jerusalem, meeting Anne at the Golden Gate, where Mary is conceived by the embrace of Anne and her ageing husband.

Of particular note in the cycle, the Annunciation to St. Anne reveals Giottos blossoming development in the depiction of space. The three-dimensional rendering of the room provides depth for the image, achieving a sense of reality in the depiction of the scene. The interior and furnishings of the room are delicately portrayed, while the folds in the maids dress also evince a realistic style of representation.

Giottos style draws on the solid and classical sculpture of Arnolfo di Cambio. Unlike the work of the contemporary leading artists Cimabue and Duccio, Giottos figures are neither stylised nor elongated and they do not follow the Byzantine models so dominant in art that time. They are solidly three-dimensional, featuring faces and gestures based on close observation, and they are clothed in real-life garments that hang naturally and have form and weight, not swirling formalised drapery. Giotto was also renowned for his pioneering steps in foreshortening and representing characters facing inwards, with their backs towards the observer, thus creating the illusion of space.

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