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3) Still life
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distributed by Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
5) Narrative
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National Gallery Company
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Familiarizes the modern viewer with some of the best or most intriguing examples of Western narrative painting.
6) Landscape
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National Gallery Publications
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"This book shows how artists in past centuries translated outdoor space and light into paint, and how landscape imagery evolved from mere ornament into a visual metaphor of the human condition. The story is told from its beginnings in Roman mural decoration, through the Renaissance transformation of landscape into an ambitious vehicle for feelings and ideas, to the impressionist 'revolution' and beyond. The continuing relevance of art to how we see...
7) Allegory
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National Gallery Publications
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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"When we say that 'Love is blind' or 'Time flies' - making disembodied ideas sound like living beings - we are using the language of allegory, and incidentally bringing abstract notions within the scope of the visual arts. Painters in the past, and commercial artists in our own day, have relied on allegory to create 'message pictures'. Once thought to rival literary works or political oratory in influence and prestige, such paintings, with their references...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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"Focusing on images of Christ in high art and popular craft throughout the world - in galleries, churches, museums, private homes, catacombs, and market stalls - MacGregor traces the life of Christ and the development of Christian culture since his birth. He shows how some of the works reveal not only society's view of Christ and of itself but also the inner spiritual turmoil of their creators. MacGregor points to Michelangelo's successive sculptures...