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Read paintings
Volume 2 – In the
secret workshops
Collection Understand and Recognize
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This book looks at the major artists and workshops from the middle ages through
to modern times. Laid out in chronological order its five main chapters allow us to see how these artists and workshops
worked and how they have shaped and influenced the history of art.
A number of boxes containing information explain the secrets of paintings from the different periods
and offer a way to ‘read’ a selection of famous works from the point of view of the maker.
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Audience
Students, teachers, professionals,
and those interested in art exhibitions and galleries.
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Key points
-An educational approach which proved a
success in the first volume Read Painting –
In the Intimacy of Works of Art.
-An approach with a bias: the secrets of the profession…
-A rich and abundant iconography that complements
what the author is saying.
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The autor
Nadije LANEYRIE-DAGEN, teaches at the Ecole Normale Superieure and is a specialist in XIV and XVI century paintings.
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