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Highlights from the National Gallery of Art Washington

A guide to more than 400 of the Gallery?s masterworks, with lavish reproductions and insightful commentaries.0The National Gallery of Art is home to the nation?s art collection and a preeminent showcase for the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. This completely new handb...

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Corporate Author: National Gallery of Art (Author, VerfasserIn)
Other Authors: Metro, Judy (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Christen, Barbara S. (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Shea, Lisa (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Srrand, John (Editor, HerausgeberIn)
Hand, John Oliver (Contributor, MitwirkendeR)
Document Type: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art , [2016]
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Author Notes:editor in chief Judy Metro ; edited by Barbara Christen, Lisa Shea, John Strand, ; contributors Nancy Anderson [und 39 Weitere]
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Summary:A guide to more than 400 of the Gallery?s masterworks, with lavish reproductions and insightful commentaries.0The National Gallery of Art is home to the nation?s art collection and a preeminent showcase for the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. This completely new handbook is compact and easy-to-handle and includes works selected by the Gallery?s curatorial staff from some 145,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and new media that make up the present collection. Various mediums appear side by side in chronological groupings, a schema that emphasizes the diversity and wealth of the Gallery?s holdings and provides readers with a well-rounded picture of the Western world?s artistic production over time. Periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century are characterized in six section introductions, with beautiful design treatment and selection of details throughout. This handsome guidebook is available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish editions
Item Description:Includes index
Physical Description:359 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm
ISBN:9780894683992
0894683993