National Gallery (Great Britain)

Provides guidance for studying paintings and illustrations from the National Gallery in London to find the story within each.

Introduces the world's most notable painters and paintings in the Western European tradition from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries.

A visual guide to Manet's life and art, and the influences that shaped his work.

Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) broke with accepted conventions and challenged audiences to expand their understanding of visual expression. Nowhere is this phenomenon more evident than in his portraits, a genre he remained engaged with throughout all phases of his career. Bringing together more than 60 of Gauguin's portraits in a wide variety of media that includes painting, works on paper, and sculpture, this handsomely illustrated volume is the first...

Puts pictures into context to give the viewer a greater appreciation of them by also offering insight into paintings and their composition.

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), arguably the greatest American landscape artist of his generation, is presented here in a new light: as an international figure, born in England, and in dialogue with the major landscape painters of the age, including J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. Cole traveled in Europe from 1829 to 1832. Thomas Cole's Journey reexamines his seminal works of 1832-36--notably The Oxbow and Course of Empire--as a culminating response to...