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Discovering the great masters : the art lover's guide to understanding symbols in paintings / Paul Crenshaw with Rebecca Tucker & Alexandra Bonfante-Warren.

by Crenshaw, Paul.

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New York, NY : Universe, c2009.

Symbolism in art.

9780789318916 (hc.) :

0789318911 (hc.)

308 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm.

The last judgement / Giotto di Bondone -- Secrets of the animal world -- The adoration of the Magi / Gentile da Fabriano -- The Arnolfini portrait / Jan van Eyck -- The Ghent altarpiece / Jan van Eyck -- The Chancellor Rolin Madonna / Jan van Eyck -- The annunciaton / Rogier van der Weyden -- The deposition from the cross / Rogier van der Weyden -- Christ mocked / Fran Angelico -- The triumph of Federico da Montefeltro / Piero Della Francesca -- Portinari altarpiece / Hugo van der Goes -- St. Jerome in his stuidy / Domenico Ghirlandaio -- The adoration of the Magi / Leonardo da Vinci -- La primavera (spring) / Sandro Botticelli -- Marriage of the virgin / Pietro Perugino -- Virgin and child enthroned with Saints / Giovanni Bellini -- The birth of Venus / Sandro Botticelli -- Madonna della Vittoria / Andrea Mantegna -- Pallas Athena expelling the vices / Andrea Mantegna -- The last supper / Leonardo da Vinci -- Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci -- Doni tondo / Michelangelo -- The garden of earthly delights / Hieronymus Bosch -- The Madonna of the meadow / Raphael -- The school of Athens / Raphael -- Mars and Venus / Piero di Cosimo -- The three philosophers / Giorgione -- The adoration of the trinity / Albrecht Durer -- The Isenheim altarpiece / Matthias Grünewald -- A banker and his wife / Quinten Metsys -- Bacchanal of the andrians / Titian -- The last judgment / Michelangelo -- The enigmas of architecture -- Madonna and child / Joos van Cleve -- The French ambassadors / Hans Holbein the younger -- A Christian Allegory / Jan Provost -- Decoding flowers and fruit -- Allegory of immortality / Giulio Romano -- St. Luke painting the virgin / Maerten van Heemskerck -- Fight between carnival and lent / Pieter Bruegel the elder -- Allegory of vanity / Jan van der Straet (Johannes Stradanus) -- Burial of the Count of Orgaz / El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) -- Feast in the house of Levi / Paolo Caliari called Veronese -- The calling of St. Matthew / Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) -- Apelles paints campaspe / Joos van Winghe -- Allegory of sight / Jan Breughel the elder and Peter Paul Rubens -- Minerva's victory over ignorance / Bartholomaeus Spranger -- The education of Marie de' Medici / Peter Paul Rubens -- The artist's studio / Jan Miense Molenaer -- Time vanquished by hope and beauty / Simon Vouet -- Fortitude brings peace and plenty / Eustache le Suerur -- The consequences of war / Peter Paul Rubens -- Eucharist in fruit wreath / Jan Davidsz. de Heem -- Vanitas (self portrait) / David Bailly -- The banquet of the bean king / Jacob Jordaens -- The spinners (the fable of Arachne) / Diego Velázquez -- In luxury, look out / Jan Steen -- The gathering of manna / Nicolas Poussin -- In Ictu Oculi (in the twinkling of and eye) / Juan de Valdés Leal -- Las Meninas / Diego Velázquez -- The art of painting / Johannes Vermeer -- The secret language of myth -- The spell / Francisco de Goya -- Liberty leading the people / Eugene Delacroix -- The apotheosis of Homer / Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- Jupiter and Semele / Gustave Moreau.

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