Looking at paintings : a private view
Cottrell, Richard2009
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Draws together an eclectic and highly personal mix of painters: from Picasso to Carpaccio, from Cranach to Nolan. The connecting thread between these diverse works, which span six centuries, is Cottrell's fascination with the human story
Main title:
Looking at paintings : a private view / by Richard Cottrell
Author:
Imprint:
Millers Point Murdoch Books 2009
Collation:
223 p col ill 25 cm
Contents:
A highly abbreviated history of western art -- Man's inhumanity to man: Francisco Goya, Edouard Manet, Pablo Picasso -- The pleasures of summer: Jean-Honore Fragonard -- The good burghers: Frans Hals -- A fiery soul: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio -- The first modern painter: Francisco Goya -- Exotic tales: Vittore Carpaccio -- Life's claws: Rembrandt van Rijn -- Sensual music: Agnolo Bronzino -- The father of impressionism: Camille Pissarro -- A man of sorrows: Bramantino (Bartolomeo Suardi) -- Il Furioso: Jacopo Tintoretto -- Beauty and the bees: Sandro Botticelli -- Breaking boundaries: Georges Seurat -- Stung: Lucas Cranach -- A Venetian megastar: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) -- Inner light: Paul Cezanne -- Three explorers: Russell Drysdale, Sidney Nolan, William Robinson -- Envoi
ISBN:
9781741964868 (hbk)
Dewey class:
701.1 LOO
Local class:
701.1
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
67631
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 701.1 LOO | Available |