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Taking an original photographic approach to look in detail at certain topics, these four fascinating books provide deeper understanding and richer enjoyment of the worlds of architecture, art, famous artists, and myths and legends. AUTHOR BIO: Robert Cumming has been the chairman of Christie's Education, London, studied art history at Cambridge University, and his books have won several international awards and include Just Look, Just Imagine, and Looking into Paintings.
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A EXPLAINED The world’s greatest paintings explored and explained Van Eyck The Arnolfin Titian Bacchus and Aria Hans Holbein The Am Robert Cumming Previously published as Annotated Guides: Art US_2_Art_Explained_CMYK YK K 2 2 Previously published as Annotated Guides: Art 2///27/07 3 2 27/07 2 4:56:41 PM US_004-005_Art_Explained.indd 4 US_10_Art_Explained_CMYK U S_ K0 10 US_13_Art_Explained_CMYK 13 3 US_15_Art_Explained_CMYK 15 5 US_17_Art_Explained_CMYK 17 7 US_19_Art_Explained_CMYK 19 9 32 2/ /1//2 /27/07 27/07 4:59:23 PM US_25_Art_Explained_CMYK 25 5 US_27_Art_Explained_CMYK 27 7 US_29_Art_Explained_CMYK 29 9 US_33_Art_Explained_CMYK 33 3 US_35_Art_Explained_CMYK 35 5 US_37_Art_Explained_CMYK 37 7 US_39_Art_Explained_CMYK 39 9 US_43_Art_Explained_CMYK 43 3 US_45_Art_Explained_CMYK 45 5 US_47_Art_Explained_CMYK 47 7 US_49_Art_Explained_CMYK 49 9 US_53_Art_Explained_CMYK 53 3 US_55_Art_Explained_CMYK 55 5 US_57_Art_Explained_CMYK 57 7 US_59_Art_Explained_CMYK U US S K 59 59 9 US_63_Art_Explained_CMYK 63 3 US_65_Art_Explained_CMYK 65 5 US_67_Art_Explained_CMYK 67 7 US_69_Art_Explained_CMYK 69 9 US_73_Art_Explained_CMYK 73 3 US_75_Art_Explained_CMYK 75 5 US_77_Art_Explained_CMYK 77 7 US_79_Art_Explained_CMYK 79 9 US_83_Art_Explained_CMYK 83 3 US_85_Art_Explained_CMYK 85 5 US_87_Art_Explained_CMYK 87 7 US_89_Art_Explained_CMYK 89 9 US_93_Art_Explained_CMYK 93 3 US_95_Art_Explained_CMYK 95 5 US_97_Art_Explained_CMYK 97 7 US_99_Art_Explained_CMYK 99 9 US_100_Art_Explained_CMYK 100 00 US_101_Art_Explained_CMYK 101 01 1 INDEXX • 102 INDEX A Academies, 53 Adam and Eve: expulsion from the Garden of Eden, 12 The Garden of Earthly Delights, Bosch, 24, 25 original sin, 16 The Sistine Chapel ceiling, 30-1 The Tempest, Giorgione, 29 The Adoration of the Magi, Giotto, 10-11 Age of Reason, 68, 69 Albani, Francesco, 45 Alexander the Great, 32, 33 allegorical figures, 50 Alps, 73 altarpieces: The Annunciation, Fra Angelico, 12-13 The Baptism of Christ, Piero della Francesca, 18-19 The Deposition, van der Weyden, 16 The Isenheim Altarpiece, Grünewald, 34-5 The Ambassadors, Holbein, 38-9, 53 anamorphosis, 39 André, Ellen, 89 Andrews, Mr. and Mrs., 66-7 anemones, symbolism, 23 Angèle, 89 Angelico, Fra, The Annunciation, 12-13 angels, 12, 18-19, 42 The Annunciation, Fra Angelico, 12-13 Anthonite Order, 34 Anthony, St., 35 Aphrodite, 22 Apollo, 32, 51 apples, symbolism, 45 apprentices, 48 architecture, classical, 12 Arena Chapel, Padua, 10, 30 Argenteuil, 84-5 Ariadne, 36-7 Aristotle, 32 arithmetic, 38 Arles, 94, 95 Arnolfini, Giovanni de Arrigo, 14-15 The Arnolfini Marriage, van Eyck, 14-15, 56 Arrival of the French Ambassador, Canaletto, 62-3 The Artist’s Studio, Vermeer, 58-9 Atlas, 37 atmospheric perspective, 55 Augustine, St., 43 Aurora, 51 Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, Monet, 84-5 The Awakening Conscience, Hunt, 80-1 B Bacchus, 36-7, 51 Bacchus and Ariadne, Titian, 36-7 Bailly, David, 53 The Baptism of Christ