Research Catalog

Title

50 portraits you should know / Brad Finger.

Author

Finger, Brad

Publication

Munich : Prestel, [2014]

Supplementary Content

Publisher description

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Details

Description

141 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color); 25 cm

Summary

This wide-ranging collection of 50 iconic portraits includes works by many of the world's most renowned artists, each with their own style, technique, and story to tell. Throughout the history of art, most of the world's greatest artists have produced portraits at some point in their careers, whether commissioned by rulers or magnates; created to preserve a cherished friend or relation; or even to capture the artist's own likeness. Arranged chronologically, each of the 50 masterworks in this book exemplifies a moment in history, or a turning point in the artist's career. Van Eyck's A Man in a Turban, Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Sargent's Madame X, Kahlo's Self-Portrait with Necklace, Warhol's Marilyn, and many more world-famous paintings are featured in exquisite full-page reproductions accompanied by engaging and enlightening texts. An introductory essay on the history and importance of the portrait in art history and brief biographies of each artist round out this survey that provides valuable information in an attractive and affordable package.

Uniform Title

50 Porträts, , die man kennen sollte. English

Alternative Title

• 50 Porträts, , die man kennen sollte.
• Fifty portraits you should know

Subjects

• Biography
• Portraits
• Portrait painting
• Artists > Biography

Genre/Form

Biography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 140).

Contents

Portrait of Jean le Bon (John the Good) / Anonymous -- Portrait of a fat man / Robert Campin -- Portrait of a man / Jan Van Eyck -- Portrait of Leonello d'Este / Rogier van der Weyden -- Portrait of Federico da Montefeltro / Pisanello -- Portrait of a woman (Simonetta Vespucci) / Sandro Botticelli -- Self-portrait in a fur coat / Albrecht Dürer -- Portrait of Doge Leonardo Loredan / Giovanni Bellini -- Mona Lisa / Leonardo da Vinci -- Portrait of Baldassare Castiglioni / Raphael -- Self-portrait in a convex mirror / Parmigianino -- Andrea Odoni / Lorenzo Lotto -- Portrait of Han Luther (Martin Luther's father) / Lucas Carnach the Elder -- King Henry VIII / Hans Holbein the Younger -- Emperor Charles V on horseback / Titian -- Portrait of a cardinal / El Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos) -- Portrait of Susanna Lunden (Le Chapeau de Paille) / Peter Paul Rubens -- Self-portrait as an allegory of painting / Artemisia Gentileschi -- Portrait of Pope Innocent X / Diego Velázquez -- Girl with a pearl earring / Jan Vermeer -- Self -portrait / Rembrandt van Rijn -- Portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour / François Boucher -- Portrait of the Duchess of Beaufort (Woman in blue) / Thomas Gainsborough -- Self-portrait in a straw hat / Élisabeth Vigée-le Brun -- Goethe in the Roman Campagna / Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein -- The Reverend Robert Walker (The skating minister) / Henry Raeburn -- Portrait of George Washington (Lansdowne portrait) / Gilbert Stuart -- Mourning portrait of the Duchess of Alba / Francisco de Goya -- Self-portrait (The desperate man) / Gustave Courbet -- Portrait of Émile Zola / Édouard Manet -- Arrangement in grey and black no. 1 (Whistler's mother) / James McNeill Whistler -- Portrait of Mary Cassatt / Edgar Degas -- Madame X / John Singer Sargent -- Madame Cézanne in a red dress / Paul Cézanne -- Portrait of Dr. Gachet / Vincent van Gogh -- The Green stripe (Portrait of Madame Matisse) / Henri Matisse -- Adele Bloch-Bauer / Gustav Klimt -- Marianne von Werefkin / Gabrielle Münter -- Self-portrait with Physalis / Egon Schiele -- Chaim Soutine / Amedeo Modigliani -- Portrait of a young girl / Joan Miró -- Self-portrait in a tuxedo / Max Beckmann -- Self-portrait with necklace / Frida Kahlo -- Portrait of Dora Maar / Pablo Picasso -- Self-portrait / Leonora Carrington -- Turquoise Marilyn / Andy Warhol -- Phil / Chuck Close -- Reflection (self-portrait) / Lucian Freud -- Betty / Gerhard Richter.

Call Number

JQF 14-873

ISBN

• 9783791349800
• 3791349805

LCCN

2014940420

OCLC

890590252

Author

Finger, Brad, author.

Title

50 portraits you should know / Brad Finger.

Publisher

Munich : Prestel, [2014]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (page 140).

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Publisher description

Research Call Number

JQF 14-873