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Art: explained : 100 masterpieces and what they mean / by Hodge, Susie,1960-author.;

Venus of Willendorf (artists unknown) -- Halls of the bulls (artists unknown) -- Nebamun hunting in the marshes (artists unknown) -- Terracotta army of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi (artists unknown) -- Ellora Caves (artists unknown) -- The Aldobrandini wedding (artists unknown) -- Trajan's column (Apollodpris pf Damascus) -- Deesis (artists unknown) -- Wang Xizhi watching geese (Qian Xuan) -- The legend of St. Francis (Giotto di Bondone) -- The Wilton diptych (artists unknown) -- Les tres riches Heures (Limbourg Brothers) -- The holy trinity with the virgin (Masaccio) -- The Arnolfini portrait (Jan van Euck) -- The descent from the cross (Rogier van der Weyden) -- Penitent Magdalene (Donatello) -- Madonna and child (Filippo Lippi) -- La primavera (Sandro Botticelli) -- The garden of earthly delights (Hieronymus Bosch) -- The great piece of turf (Albrecht Durer) -- The virgin and child with St. Anne (Leonardo da Vinci) -- The creation of Adam (Michelangelo) -- The school of Athens (Raphael) -- Deposition from the cross (Jacopo de POntormo) -- Madonna of St. Jerone (Dorreggio) -- THe Emperor Guangwu fording a river (Qiu Ying) -- The abassadors (Hans Holbein the Younger) -- Pope Paul III and his grandsons (Titian) -- Children's games (Pieter Bruegel the elder) -- Arrival of the Portuguese (Kano Naizen) -- View of Toledo (El Greco) -- Supper at Emmaus (Caravaggio) -- Samson and Delilah (Peter Paul Rubens) -- Judith slaying holofernes (Artemisia Gentileschi) -- Cheat with the ace of clubs (Georges de La Tour) -- The proposition (Judith Leyster) -- Equestrian portrait of Thomas of Svoy (Anthony van Dyck) -- Protrait of Innocent X (Diego Velazquez) -- Courtyard of a house in Delft (Pieter de Hooch) -- Self-portrait with Beret (Rembrandt van Rijn) -- Girl with a pearl earring (Johannes Vermeer) -- Piazza San Marco (Canaletto) -- Mr and Mrs Andrews (Thomas Gainsborough) -- Whistlejacket (George Stubbs) -- The swing (Jean-Honore Fragonard) -- Self-protrait in a straw hat (Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun) -- The oath of the Horatii (Jacques-Louis David) -- Self-portrait Hesitating (Angelica Kauffman) -- The naked/the clothed Maja (Francisco de Goya) -- La grands odalisque (Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres) -- Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (Caspar David Friedrich) -- The raft of the Medusa (Theodore Gericault) -- Totem pole (artists unknown) -- The great wave of Kanagawa (Katsushika Hokusai) -- Rain, steam and speed (Joseph Mallord William Turner) -- Washington crossing the Delaware (Emanuel Leutze) -- The gleaners (Jean-Francois Millet) -- Le dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Edouard Manet) -- The sleepers (Gustave Courbet) -- La Grenouillere (Claude Monet) -- Still life with jar, cup and apples (Paul Cezanne) -- Chair with pop (Vincent van Gogh) -- The scream (Edvard Munch) -- Where do we come from? (Paul Gaughuin) -- The birthday (Marc Chagall) -- Fountain (Marcel Duchamp) -- Untitled (Claude Cahun) --Urban debauchery (Otto Dix) -- American gothic (Grant Wood) -- The persistence of memory (Salvador Dali) -- A universe (Alexander Calder) -- Guernica (Pablo Picasso) -- The two Fridas (Frida Kahlo) -- Nighthawks (Edward Hopper) -- Christina's world (Andrew Wyeth) -- MOuntains and sea (Helen Frankenthaler) -- Two figures (Francis Bacon) -- Flag (Jasper Johns) -- Cool white (Lee Krasner) -- Spatial concept 'Waiting" (Lucio Fontana) -- Four Campbell's soup cans (Andy Warhol) -- Rhythm O (Marina Abramovic) -- My parents (David Hockney) -- Untitled film still #13 (Cindy Sherman) -- Self-portrait (Chuck Close) -- Concert for anarchy (Rebecca Horn) --  Light sentence (Mona Hatoum) -- Prop (Jenny Saville) -- House (Rachel Whiteread) -- East west circle (Richard Long) -- Heavenly Jerusalem (Anselm Kiefer) -- Fireflies on the water (Yayoi Kusama) -- The weather project (Olafur Eliasson) -- Cloud gate (Anish Kapoor) -- Fingal (Gillian Ayres) -- Blow up O3 (Ori Gersht) -- Chenrezig sand mandala (Tashi Lhunpo Monastery Monks) -- A subtlety (Kara Walker) -- I want my time with you (Tracey Emin).Why did Michelangelo paint the Sistine Chapel, or Rembrandt obsess over painting his own image? What's the secret behind the Terracotta Army, or Andy Warhol's soup cans? Art: Explained offers straightforward and satisfying answers to 100 of these fascinating questions. If you've ever looked at an art masterpiece in awe, but wondered just what it means, here is your guide.--

Subjects: Art; Masterpiece, Artistic.;

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The Sandman / by Gaiman, Neil,author.; Kieth, Sam,artist.; Dringenberg, Mike,artist.; Jones, Malcolm,III,artist.; Bachalo, Chris,artist.; Zulli, Michael,artist.; Vozzo, Danny,colourist.; Oliff, Steve,colourist.; Klein, Todd,letterer.; McKean, Dave,cover artist.;

Book one: Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Chris Bachalo, Michael Zulli [and others], artists ; Daniel Vozzo, Steve Oliff, colorists ; Todd Klein, letterer ; Dave McKean, collection cover and original series covers."Neil Gaiman's award-winning masterpiece The Sandman is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed graphic novels of all time. The series is a rich blend of modern and ancient mythology in which contemporary fiction, historical drama, and legend are seamlessly interwoven."--

Subjects: Fantasy comics.; Graphic novels.; Sandman (Fictitious character from DC Comics, Inc.);

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Thomas Kinkade : the artist in the mall / by Boylan, Alexis L.;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Thomas Kinkade and the history of Protestant visual culture in America / David Morgan -- Painter of the right : Thomas Kinkade's political art / Micki McElya -- God in the retails : Thomas Kinkade and market piety / Seth Feman -- Brand-name living from the painter of light / Karal Ann Marling -- Purchasing paradise : nostalgic longing and the painter of light / Andrea Wolk Rager -- Repetition, exclusion, and the urbanism of nostalgia : the architecture of Thomas Kinkade / Christopher E.M. Pearson -- "A temple next door? : the Thomas Kinkade Museum and Cultural Center / Julia Alderson -- Thomas Kinkade's heaven on earth / Jeffrey Vallance -- Manufacturing "masterpieces?" for the market : Thomas Kinkade and the rhetoric of high art / Monica Kjellman-Chapin -- Art ethics : Thomas Kinkade and contemporary art / Anna Brzyski.An anthology on American artist Thomas Kincaid, exploring his work and its impact on contemporary art as part of the broader history of American visual culture.

Subjects: Kinkade, Thomas, 1958-; Christian art and symbolism;

© 2011., Duke University Press,

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Priceless : how I went undercover to rescue the world's stolen treasures / by Wittman, Robert K.;

Alla prima. Stagehand -- Crimes against history -- Provenance. Making of an agent -- Mask of the man with the broken nose -- The accident -- Inspiration -- A new life -- Body of work. The gold man -- History out the back door -- A blood cloth -- Befriend & betray -- The con artist -- A hot hand -- The property of a lady -- National treasure -- Art crime team -- The old master -- Operation masterpiece. Mrs. Gardner -- Cold case -- A French connection -- Laurenz & Sunny -- Allies & enemies --- A coward has no scar -- Suspicious minds -- End game.Robert K. Wittman, the founder of the FBI's Art Crime Team, pulls back the curtain on his remarkable career, offering a real-life international thriller. The son of an antique dealer, Wittman built a twenty-year career going undercover, usually unarmed, to catch art thieves, scammers, and black market traders in Paris and Philadelphia, Rio and Santa Fe, Miami and Madrid. Wittman tells the stories behind his recoveries of priceless art and antiquities: the golden armor of an ancient Peruvian warrior king; the Rodin sculpture that inspired the Impressionist movement; the rare Civil War battle flag carried into battle by one of the nation's first African-American regiments. The art thieves and scammers he caught run the gamut from rich to poor, smart to foolish, organized criminals to desperate loners. Wittman has saved hundreds of millions of dollars worth of art and antiquities, but he considers them all equally priceless.--From publisher description.

Subjects: Wittman, Robert K.; Art thefts;

© c2010., Crown Publishers,

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Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 : artist and scientist / by Zöllner, Frank.; Leonardo,da Vinci,1452-1519.;

Includes bibliographical references (page 95)."Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) not only stands as one of the most exceptional draftsmen of art history, but also as a mastermind and innovator who anticipated some of the greatest discoveries of human progress, sometimes centuries before their material realization. From the smallest arteries in the human heart to the far-flung constellations of the universe, Leonardo saw nature and science as being unequivocally connected. His points of inquiry and invention spanned philosophy, anatomy, geology, and mathematics, from the laws of optics, gravitation, heat and light to the building of a flying machine. In his painting, Leonardo steered art out of the Middle Ages with works such as The Last Supper and the world-famous La Gioconda or Mona Lisa depicting not only physical appearances, but a compelling psychological intrigue and depth which continues to draw crowds of mesmerized visitors to masterpieces in Paris, Milan, Washington, London, and Rome. This book collates some of Leonardo's most outstanding work to introduce a figure of infinite curiosity, feverish imagination and sublime artistic ability, often described as having "not enough worlds for to conquer, and not enough lives for to live" (Alan Woods)"--Page 2 of cover.Apprenticeship and youth in Florence -- Beginnings without ends -- New artistic departures in Milan -- the artist as natural scientist -- Leonardo: Court artist in Milan -- Restless interlude -- The battle of the giants: Leonardo and Michelangelo -- The last years -- Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519, life and work.

Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.; Artists;

© 2015., Taschen,

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The masterpiece : a novel / by Davis, Fiona,1966-author.;

"For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. A talented illustrator, she has dreams of creating cover art for Vogue, but not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist." Brash, fiery, confident, and single-minded--even while juggling the affections of two men, a wealthy would-be poet and a brilliant experimental painter--Clara is determined to achieve every creative success. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they'll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression, an insatiable monster with the power to destroy the entire art scene. Nearly fifty years later, in 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay's life. Full of grime and danger, from the smoke-blackened ceiling to the pickpockets and drug dealers who roam the floor, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort"--

Subjects: Historical fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Grand Central Terminal (New York, N.Y.);

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The Gardner heist : the true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft / by Boser, Ulrich.;

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]) and index.The storm on the sea of Galilee : a disturbance in the courtyard -- Chez Tortoni : the art detective -- A lady and gentlemen in black : it was a passion -- The concert : the picture habit -- Cortege aux environs de Florence : the art of the theft -- Landscape with an obelisk : something that big -- Ku : unfinished business -- Three mounted jockeys : infiltrate and infatuate -- Self-portrait : I was the one -- Program for an artistic soiree : any news on your side -- Program for an artistic soiree II : where's Whitey? -- La sortie de pesage : put my picture on the cover -- Finial : like a spiderweb."One museum, two thieves, and the Boston underworld--the story behind the lost Gardner masterpieces worth $500 million and the art detective who swore to get them back." -- cover.

Subjects: Art thefts; Theft from museums; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.;

© c2009., Smithsonian Books : Collins,

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Michelangelo, 1475-1564 : universal genius of the Renaissance / by Néret, Gilles.; Snowdon, Peter,translator.;

A stone cutter -- The Pope and the artist -- Dreams of a Titan -- The fires of love -- The glory of God -- Chronology.Renaissance man in extremis Michelangelo, in pursuit of the beautiful and sublime Italian-born Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475 1564) was a tormented, prodigiously talented, and God-fearing Renaissance man. His manifold achievements in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, and engineering combined body, spirit, and God into visionary masterpieces that changed art history forever. Famed biographer Giorgio Vasari considered him the pinnacle of Renaissance achievement. His peers called him simply Il Divino (the divine one). This book provides the essential introduction to Michelangelo with all the awe-inspiring masterpieces and none of the queues and crowds. With vivid illustration and accessible texts, we explore the artist's extraordinary figuration and celebrated style of terribilita (momentous grandeur), which allowed human and biblical drama to exist in compelling scale and fervor. Through the power hubs of Renaissance Italy, we take in his major commissions and phenomenal capacity for compositional schemes, whether the famous Medici library in Florence, or the extraordinary 500-square-meter ceiling (1508 1512) in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. From the towering David to the aching grief and faith of The Pieta and the vivid drama of the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment, this is a succinct, dependable reference to a true giant of art history and to some of the most famous artworks in the world.

Subjects: Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.; Artists;

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Sharp edges / [electronic resource]. by Krentz, Jayne Ann.; Diaz, Stephanie.;

Narrator: Stephanie Diaz.Love's passionate snags get the smooth touch in this sparkling masterpiece from Jayne Ann Krentz! She put her art on the line -- and her heart in his hands... Eugenia Swift is a young woman of singular sensibilities, and a connoisseur of beauty. As director of the Leabrook Glass Museum, she's been asked to travel to Frog Cove Island -- an artistic haven near Seattle -- to catalog an important collection of art glass. But thanks to unsavory rumors surrounding the collector's death, the museum insists that Eugenia take along Cyrus Chandler Colfax -- a rough-hewn private investigator whose taste in glass runs to ice-cold bottles filled with beer. When Colfax declares they must pose as a couple, Eugenia protests in a manner as loud as his Hawaiian shirts. But now their very lives depend on the most artful collaboration they can imagine. For a killer is lurking among Frog Cove's chic galleries, and if anyone sees through their marital masquerade, their own secret agendas -- as well as their plans for survival -- may be smashed to smithereens!Requires OverDrive Listen (file size: N/A KB) or OverDrive app (file size: 264934 KB).

Subjects: Electronic books.; Fiction.; Mystery.; Romance.; Suspense.;

© 2012., Simon & Schuster Audio,

On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=728450 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;

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A little history of art / by Mullins, Charlotte,author.;

"Why did our ancestors make art? What did art mean to them and what does their art mean for us today? Why is art even important at all? Charlotte Mullins brings art to life by focusing on those who made it, from teenage prodigies to nonagenarians. This little history introduces us to overlooked artists, busts a few art history myths, and celebrates global networks of art, from Japan and India to South America and the Middle East. Mullins shows us the first artworks ever made and early masterpieces such as the Terracotta Army and Nok sculptures. She tells the story of the Renaissance, from Giotto to Michelangelo, and introduces us to subsequent leading artists such as Artemisia Gentileschi, Rembrandt, and Hokusai. Through the turbulence of the twentieth century, we see artists group together and break apart and meet trailblazers including Kathe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, and Jacob Lawrence. More recently contemporary artists such as Ai Weiwei and Shirin Neshat create art as resistance as they address today's urgent issues. This extraordinary journey through 100,000 years celebrates art's crucial place in understanding our collective culture and history."--First marks -- The story unfolds -- The illusion of life -- Copycats -- Paths to the afterlife -- Art embraces religion -- Storm clouds gather -- The art of propaganda -- Masons, moai and materials -- The Renaissance begins -- Northern lights -- A matter of perspective -- East meets West -- The return of Rome -- Fire and brimstone -- Here come the barbarians -- The reign in Spain -- The theatre of life -- New ways of seeing -- The lie of the land -- Still life and life stilled -- Rococo escapism and London life -- The Royal Academy: home and away -- Liberty, equality, fraternity? -- Romanticism to Orientalism -- Reality bites -- The impressionists -- Artists take a stand -- The post-impressionists -- Standing on the shoulders of giants -- Ripping up the rule book -- Art becomes political -- Land of the free? -- The aftermath of war -- American art comes of age -- Sculpture breaks the mould -- We don't need another hero -- A postmodern world -- Go large or go home -- Art as resistance.

Subjects: Art;

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