Metropolitan seminars in art : Great Periods in Painting Portfolio F - The World Triumphant by John Canaday

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Canaday, John, 1907-1985

Contributor:

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painting--History.

Painting.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource (24 portfolios illustrations, color plates)

Place of Publication:

[New York] Metropolitan Museum of Art [1959]

Contents:

A. Glory and grandeur : the classical background

B. Earth, heaven, and hell : man and mystery in the Middle Ages

C. The world rediscovered : the early Renaissance

D. Venus revisited : classical myths in the Renaissance

E. The world in order : the High Renaissance

F. The world triumphant : the baroque

G. The world dividing : the 18th century

H. The war of illusions : classicism vs. romanticism

I. The quick and the dead : realism vs. the salon

J. Summer idyl : the flowering of impressionism

K. Painting in transition : precursors of modern art

L. Actaeon and the atom : art in the contemporary world

Notes:

Review questions, 1 pages in pocket of each portfolio

Pronunciation guide, 2 pages in pocket of each portfolio

Other Format:

Print version Canaday, John, 1907-1985. Metropolitan seminars in art

OCLC:

1176311912