The Oxford Companion to Art, Volume 2Harold Osborne The Oxford Companion to Art is a handbook for readers who want an accessible introduction and work of reference to the fine arts. It contains around 3,000 entries varying from brief descriptions to longer articles that give both a survey of their subject and a guide of national and regional schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and references helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography. |
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Academy achieved aesthetic altar altarpiece antiquity Antwerp arch archi architect architecture ART NOUVEAU artists Baroque beauty became bronze building Byzantine BYZANTINE ART CARAVAGGIO carved Cathedral centre century Chapel Chinese Christ Christian church classical colour composition contemporary court CUBISM decorative depicted developed drawing Dutch Dynasty earliest early England English engraving etching Europe example exhibition expression EXPRESSIONISM façade famous figures Flemish Florence France French frescoes Gallery gardens genre German Gothic Greek Haarlem House illustrations important IMPRESSIONISTS influence INTERNATIONAL GOTHIC Italian Italy known landscape late later London Louvre Madonna manner MANNERIST master medieval ment MICHELANGELO modern monumental mosaic movement Museum nature original ornament painter painting Palace panels Paris period popular portrait pupil realism religious REMBRANDT RENAISSANCE represented revival Rococo Roman Romanesque Rome Royal RUBENS scenes School sculpture sometimes stone studied style survived taste technique tecture tion TITIAN tomb tradition Venice
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Constructing the World Polity: Essays on International Institutionalization John Gerard Ruggie No preview available - 1998 |
Human Dimension & Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards Julius Panero No preview available - 1979 |