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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Plates bright and vivid.. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Masterpieces from the sixth to the eighteenth centuries have been selected by a specialist in the history of western art to provide in a single volume a magnificent pano- rama of priceless paintings and drawings. The wealth of illustrations including 131 in full color and gold present the varied aspects of life in fascinating detail. This handsome collection provides a faithful record of the life of Europe’s people through twelve centuries and reflects society’s successive preoccupation with religious philosophical and secular matters. Religious paintings are balanced by a variety of portraits and landscapes and studies of animals flowers and still lifes. Byzantine mosaics decorated early basilicas. Later secular figures dressed in the fashion of the day were inserted as pious donors into painted scenes depicting incidents in the life of the Holy Family various saints or biblical characters. The nameless horrors of the other world were depicted by some art- ists with savage realism. With the age of discovery the luxuries of the Orient were assimilated into daily life and reflected in the paintings of princely wardrobes and interiors. Robust scenes of peasant life were the choice of painters of the genre school. Pastoral scenes set in vast parks were brightened by gallants in gay ribbons. Cardinals baby princes masked ladies and country squires were among the subjects of portrait painters who sought to capture them on canvas. The panorama of old masters Dis concluded with the Spain of Goya. The impressive list of old masters whose work is represent- ed here includes Fra Angelico Piero della Francesca Van Der Weyden Van Eyck Masaccio Giorgione Botticelli Durer Cranach Mantegna Bosch Brueghel Bellini Mi- chelangelo Tintoretto Titian Veronese Da Vinci Bron- zino Raphael Clouet Van Dyck Rubens Holbein Rem- brandt Hals Tiepolo Poussin Lorrain Boucher Frago- nard Gainsborough. (OS)