Artists : their lives and works

King, Ross, 1962- (writer of foreword.).

Summary: Presents brief profiles of over eighty major artists throughout history, providing the historical context in which each artist worked, their influences, and legacies.

Record details

ISBN: 9781465463289
ISBN: 1465463283
ISBN: 024122618X
ISBN: 9780241226186
Physical Description: print
360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : DK Publishing, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Giotto -- Jan van Eyck -- Donatello -- Masaccio -- Piero della Francesca -- Giovanni Bellini -- Sandro Botticelli -- Hieronymus Bosch -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Wen Zhengming -- Albrecht Durer -- Michelangelo -- Titian -- Raphael -- Hans Holbein -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- El Greco -- Caravaggio -- Peter Paul Rubens - Artemisia Gentileschi -- Nicolas Poussin -- Gianlorenzo Bernini -- Anthony van Dyck -- Diego Velazquez -- Tano Tan'yu -- Rembrandt -- Jan Vermeer -- Wang Hui -- Jeong Seon -- Jean-Antoine Watteau -- Giambattista Tiepolo -- Canaletto -- William Hogarth -- Jean-Simeon Chardin -- Ito Jakuchu -- Thomas Gainsborough -- Jean-Honore Fragonard -- John Singleton Copley -- Franciso de Goya -- Jacques-Louis David -- Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun -- Antonio Canova -- Katsushika Jokusai -- Caspar David Friedrich -- J.M.W. Turner -- John Constable -- Eugene Delacroix - Gustave Courbet -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Edouard Manet -- James McNeill Whistler -- Edgar Degas -- Paul Cezanne -- Auguste Rodin -- Claude Monet -- Henri Rousseau -- Ilya Repin -- Paul Gauguin -- Vincent van Gogh -- Gustav Klimt -- Edvard Munch -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Henri Matisse -- Piet Mondrian -- Constantin Brancusi -- Paul Klee -- Pablo Picasso -- Edward Hopper -- Amedeo Modigliani -- Marc Chagall -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Rene Magritte -- Henry Moore -- Alberto Giacometti -- Mark Rothko 00 Salvador Dali -- Frida Kahlo -- Francis Bacon -- Jackson Pollock -- Bernard Buffet -- Andy Warhol -- Anish Kapoor -- Takashi Murakami.