Art Investigations. Images, Symbols and Secret Meanings in Art
19.99 €
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Art Investigations. Images, Symbols and Secret Meanings in Art
19.99 €
How to look at paintings through the eyes of an art historian? And how to understand what the artist wanted to say?
The great masters of painting expressed in their masterpieces a kaleidoscope of contradictory feelings, their life experience and pressing problems of their epoch, each time turning to a unique set of visual symbols. Flowers and birds, celestial luminaries, musical instruments - even such ordinary-looking objects as an egg or a wheel, inscribed in a still life or landscape, can conceal a multitude of meanings. What was clear to the artists' contemporaries, for us, has become a set of images that resemble a cunning puzzle.
In this book, popular art-blogger Victoria Tsibulskaya will tell you in detail about the mysteries of the paintings that adorn the best museums of the world, from London's Tate Gallery to the Prado Museum in Spain. You will discover non-obvious details and hidden symbols, in the light of which familiar paintings acquire new, deep meanings, reveal the personal secrets of their creators: Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velasquez, Van Gogh, Monet and other great masters of painting. Thanks to this book, an ordinary trip to the museum will turn into a fascinating game, where each painting is a rebus to be solved by you.
A large number of bright color illustrations will allow you to immerse yourself in the world of bright images and ideas straight from the depths of centuries. Take a great journey into the history of art and discover the amazing secrets of masterpieces of world painting - from genre scenes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder to mythological images by Gustav Klimt!
The great masters of painting expressed in their masterpieces a kaleidoscope of contradictory feelings, their life experience and pressing problems of their epoch, each time turning to a unique set of visual symbols. Flowers and birds, celestial luminaries, musical instruments - even such ordinary-looking objects as an egg or a wheel, inscribed in a still life or landscape, can conceal a multitude of meanings. What was clear to the artists' contemporaries, for us, has become a set of images that resemble a cunning puzzle.
In this book, popular art-blogger Victoria Tsibulskaya will tell you in detail about the mysteries of the paintings that adorn the best museums of the world, from London's Tate Gallery to the Prado Museum in Spain. You will discover non-obvious details and hidden symbols, in the light of which familiar paintings acquire new, deep meanings, reveal the personal secrets of their creators: Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Velasquez, Van Gogh, Monet and other great masters of painting. Thanks to this book, an ordinary trip to the museum will turn into a fascinating game, where each painting is a rebus to be solved by you.
A large number of bright color illustrations will allow you to immerse yourself in the world of bright images and ideas straight from the depths of centuries. Take a great journey into the history of art and discover the amazing secrets of masterpieces of world painting - from genre scenes by Pieter Bruegel the Elder to mythological images by Gustav Klimt!
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