Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4070

Secondhand Art Book Bargain Book Box SP4070

Nine more volumes from the Time-Life "World of" series — this time covering the Old Masters and the Impressionists: Titian, Bruegel, Velázquez, Vermeer, Picasso, Rembrandt, Manet, Giotto and Dürer. A companion set to SP4071, and equally beautiful.

1. The World of Titian — The great Venetian painter's rich, sensuous canvases and portraits, from his early mythologies to the late works of astonishing freedom.
2. The World of Bruegel — Pieter Bruegel the Elder's crowded, vivid scenes of Flemish peasant life and his great allegorical landscapes, examined in full.
3. The World of Velázquez — The Spanish court painter who depicted kings and fools with equal penetrating honesty — including the incomparable Las Meninas.
4. The World of Vermeer — Thirty-five paintings, all extraordinary: Vermeer's intimate domestic interiors suffused with northern light, examined one by one.
5. The World of Picasso — Cubism, Blue Period, Rose Period, Guernica — a thorough account of the most prolific and shape-shifting artist of the twentieth century.
6. The World of Rembrandt — Self-portraits, biblical scenes, group portraits: Rembrandt's lifelong investigation of light, shadow and the human face.
7. The World of Manet — Édouard Manet's provocations — Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Olympia — and the late flower paintings of serene mastery.
8. The World of Giotto — The Florentine painter who broke with Byzantine convention and gave figures weight, emotion and individuality, founding Western art as we know it.
9. The World of Dürer — Albrecht Dürer's engravings, woodcuts and paintings: the supreme draughtsman of the Northern Renaissance, who brought Italian humanism north of the Alps.