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From Giotto to David Hockney, this invaluable A-Z reference guide introduces some of the most celebrated artists in history. 100 Great Artists showcases the masterworks of one hundred painters who represent eight centuries of artistic tradition, ranging from the 13th century to the 21st. Featuring spectacular full-colour images and biographic timelines, this book is a wonderful resource to browse some of histories most iconic artists and why they remain influential today. Featured artists include: • Michelangelo • William Blake • Francisco Goya • Katsushika Hokusai • James McNeill Whistler The secrets of the masterpieces revealed: does Van Eyck's Arnolfini Marriage portray a secret sadness? What political purpose did Rubens' fat, rosy models serve? And did Seurat's pointillist experiment really work? A must-have collection for general readers, art students and practitioners alike.

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Author:   Charlotte Gerlings
Publisher:   Arcturus Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Arcturus
ISBN:  

9781839402821

ISBN 10:   1839402822
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   28 September 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Introduction Angelico, Fra Anguissola, Sofonisba Arcimboldo, Giuseppe Bellini, Giovanni Blake, William Bonheur, Rosa Bosch, Hieronymus Botticelli, Sandro Boucher, Francois Bruegel, Pieter Canaletto, Antonio Caravaggio, Michelangelo Cezanne, Paul Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Cimabue, Giovanni Claude Lorrain Constable, John Corot, Jean-Baptiste Cotman, John Sell Courbet, Gustave Cranach, Lucas the Elder Dali, Salvador David, Jacques-Louis Degas, Edgar Delacroix, Eugene Duccio di Buoninsegna Durer, Albrecht Eakins, Thomas Friedrich, Caspar David Gainsborough, Thomas Gaugin, Paul Gentileschi, Artemisia Gericault, Theodore Giotto di Bondone Girtin, Thomas Goya, Francisco El Greco Grunewald, Mathias Hals, Frans Hiroshige, Ando Hockney, David Hodler, Ferdinand Hogarth, William Hokusai, Katsushika Holbein, Hans the Younger Homer, Winslow De Hooch, Pieter Hopper, Edward Ingres, Jean-Auguste Kandinsky, Wassily Kauffmann, Angelica Klimt, Gustav Leonardo Da Vinci Lorenzetti, Ambrogio Macke, Auguste Magritte, Rene Malevich, Kasimir Manet, Edouard Mantegna, Andrea Martini, Simone Masaccio, Tommaso Matisse, Henri Michelangelo Buonarroti Millais, John Everett Modigliani, Amedeo Mondrian, Piet Monet, Claude Morisot, Berthe Munch, Edvard Peeters, Clara Picasso, Pablo Piero Della Francesca Pollock, Jackson Popova, Liubov Poussin, Nicolas Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre-Cecile Raphael Santi Rembrandt van Rijn Renoir, Pierre Auguste Rousseau, Henri Rubens, Peter Paul Savrasov, Alexei Schiele, Egon Seurat, Georges Stubbs, George Tintoretto, Jacopo Titian Turner, Joseph Mallord William Uccello, Paolo Van Der Weyden, Rogier Van Dyck, Anthony Van Eyck, Jan Van Gogh, Vincent Velazquez, Diego de Silva y Vermeer, Johannes Veronese, Paolo Warhol, Andy Watteau, Antoine Whistler, James Abbott McNeill Acknowledgements

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Charlotte Gerlings was born in Reading, Berkshire. She graduated in Publishing from Oxford Polytechnic (now Oxford Brookes University) and since then has worked as a book designer, writer and editor. She lives in South West London and is currently studying at Wimbledon School of Art for her MA in Fine Art.

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