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A Portrait
Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordina...
What is the Renaissance? - Men of renown - Humanism and humanity - Uses of antiquity - New Earth and New Heaven....
"From Canaletto to Tiepolo, 18th-century Venetian painters created brilliant works of art that are now considered to be the last flowering of the long...
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Major Trends In Eighteenth Century Painting
Michael Levey, former Director of the National Gallery in London, traces the major trends of European painting in the eighteenth century, taking as hi...
This is an immensely informative "first book" of art history for teachers and students....
His Life and Art
The full-length treatment in English of Tiepolo's life and career. Examining in detail the genesis and the achievement of Tiepolo's major accomplishme...
Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the ...
With Occasional Notes and Observations
Hardcover reprint of the original 1880 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments h...
From Its Opening in 1821 to Its Destruction by Fire, February, 1880; with Occasional Notes and Observations
From Giotto to Cezanne
This is a new release of the original 1962 edition....
"Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was the most gifted and successful British portrait painter in the generation following Gainsborough and Reynolds, an...
Lectures presented at the Dürer Festival held by the University of Manchester in collaboration with the Goethe Institute, 1971....
With 111 Illustrations
An Exhibition of Paintings from the Lower Floor
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i...
Italian painting - Dutch painting - Flemish painting - Spanish painting - British painting - French painting - French artists - Champaigne - Claude - ...
"Concentrating on six very varied European courts, the book deals with the very various types of paintings fostered by rulers between the fourteenth a...
Plates
With a Representative Selection of Pictures
A Concise History of Painting
His Sensations and Ideas
A Concise History of Painting ; 549 Plates in Colour
Recollections of Growing Up
In this evocative memoir Michael Levey recreates a between-the-wars English childhood outwardly ordinary and undramatic, but inwardly rich, stirring, ...
major trends in eighteenth-century painting
Major Trends in Eighteenth-century Painting