How to Read a Painting - Patrick de Rynck

This illuminating, anecdotal, portable book - with 1000 gorgeous colour illustrations - helps to fill in these gaps by decoding the imagery of more than 150 of the most influential and admired artworks of all time. Covering the works of the Italian, Dutch, German and Spanish Old Masters, from 1350 to 1750 - paintings by sych artists as Giotto, Botticelli, El Greco, Bruegel, Holbein, Rubens and Vermeer - 'How To Read A Painting' helps the viewer to understand the significant details of a picture and also explains the relationship with similar imagery in other works.
Flexi, 240x170mm,, 416 pp., 1000 col.ill., English edition. FINE CONDITION !! ISBN 9780500512005. [Auteur: DE RYNCK, Patrick.] [Pagina's: 416] [Uitgever: UK, Thames & Hudson , 1989] [Jaar: 1750] [Titel: HOW TO READ A PAINTING. DECODING, UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYING THE OLD MASTERS.]