History Paintings

History Paintings book cover — VALERIE BODDEN History Paintings CREATIVE EDUCATION

History Paintings — page 1 — Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Liddy Walseth Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Alamy The Art Gallery Collection The Print Collector Art Resource National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institution The Metropolitan Museum of Art Astrup Fearnley Museum for Modern Art The Bridgeman Art Library Boston Athenaeum Giraudon Corbis The Art Archive Tibor Bognar The Gallery Collection Francis G Mayer Summerﬁeld Press Sandro Vannini Getty Images APIC Gustave Courbet DEA G NIMATALLAH De Agostini DEA M CARRIERI De Agostini Dorling Kindersley Imagno JGI Time Life Pictures Pix Inc Time Life Pictures Universal History Archive Peter Willi iStockphoto 221A Yanik Chauvin Donald Erickson John Holst Konstantin Kirillov Erik Lam Josef Muellek Graça Victoria The National Gallery Shutterstock 501room Refat shooarts SuperStock Fine Art Images Mauritius The Rubell Family Collection Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bodden Valerie History paintings by Valerie Bodden p cm Brushes with greatness Includes bibliographical references and index Summary A survey of the painting genre that focuses on grand historical ﬁgures and scenes examining the genre’s origins and introducing its notable artists works and styles throughout history ISBN 978-1-60818-200-8 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-144-3 eBook 1 History painting I Title ND1440 B63 2012 758 99 dc23 2011040484 First edition 246897531 COVER GUERNICA BY PABLO PICASSO PAGE 2 THE THIRD OF MAY 1808 BY FRANCISCO DE GOYA 2

History Paintings — page 2 — TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAP TERS LOOKING TO THEPAST HISTORICMASTERS M O D E R N H I S T O RY L E AV I N G H I S T O RY B E H I N D APPRECIATING ART T H E T R I B U T E M O N EY N A P O L E O N B O N A PA R T E V I S I T I N G T H E P L AG U E S T R I C K E N I N J A F FA B OYA R I N A M O R O Z OVA H I S T O RY O F M E X I C O RESOURCES G L O S S A RY SELECTEDBIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 2 4 14 24 37 14 12 23 34 45 46 47 48

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