Great Pictures

GREAT PICTURES

AS SEEN AND DESCRIBED BY GREAT WRITERS



Edited by Esther Singleton



This book is a compendium of writings on art and artists by many famous writers and critics, including Pater, Ruskin, Gauthier, Dumas, Swinburne, Symonds, Constable, Shelley, Fromentin and Goethe.



Among the artists explored in this book are Raphael, Tintoretto, Gainsborough, Turner, Van Dyck, Reynolds, Botticelli, Correggio, Michelangelo, Titian, Watteau, Rubens, del Sarto, Angelico, Hobbema, Holbein, Leonardo, de la Tour, Van Eyck, Rossetti, Murillo, Velasquez, Reni, Hogarth, Fragonard, Rembrandt and Dürer.



Each entry on the artists and artworks is accompanied by illustrations. The book is an entertaining celebration and critical appraisal of art and artists.



Fully illustrated in a brand new format. Painters Series. 352 pages.



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