A Concise History of Art I-II.

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This profound and impartial book covers the history of world art through all its phases and analyses its motives and symbolism and the beliefs from which it emerged. The hundreds of illustrations have been carefully chosen to display the characteristics of particular styles and periods and the text provides the reader with an outline of the evolution of aesthetic ideas and with as many established principles and facts as possible.
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Prehistoric art, the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Islam, Africa and early America; Western European art from Early Christian, through Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic to the beginning of Renaissance.
The late Renaissance in Italy and its spread through Europe, the Baroque, the 18th century and the revolutionary years of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; a survey of contemporary art and a consideration of those factors in art which are constant and link the arts of different periods and... Tovább

Fülszöveg

About this Work
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Part
This profound and impartial book covers the history of world art through all its phases and analyses its motives and symbolism and the beliefs from which it emerged. The hundreds of illustrations have been carefully chosen to display the characteristics of particular styles and periods and the text provides the reader with an outline of the evolution of aesthetic ideas and with as many established principles and facts as possible.
IN TWO VOLUMES
Prehistoric art, the arts of Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Islam, Africa and early America; Western European art from Early Christian, through Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic to the beginning of Renaissance.
The late Renaissance in Italy and its spread through Europe, the Baroque, the 18th century and the revolutionary years of the late 19th and early 20th centuries; a survey of contemporary art and a consideration of those factors in art which are constant and link the arts of different periods and countries.
Germain Bazin became Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre in 1950. After graduating as a Doctor of Letters in 1934, he was a Lecturer at the University of Brussels. In 1937 he was appointed Curator of the Department of Paintings, Drawings and Chalcography at the Louvre and in 1941 was Professor of theoretical and practical muscology in the Ecole du Louvre. Above all M. Bazin is a meticulous scholar who succeeds in presenting his always original thought with a clarity and liveliness of expression which makes him one of the leading art historians of his generation. His publications include: The Loom of Art, Baroque and Rococo, The Louvre, Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre and A Gallery of Flowers all of which are published by Thames and Hudson.
An astonishing piece of work. A minor miracle of value to anyone who wants to know how and why art has arrived at its present state.
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