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The Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters - Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Ingres, Degas and many others - and masterpieces by less familiar artists.
Through her commentaries on 200 of the National Gallery's finest works of art, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, to develop an eye for style, technique, imagery and genre, and to appreciate the talents of individual artists producing paintings for different locations and patrons, in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts.
'Erika Langmuir has the rare kriack of coming at pictures both with spontaneous eyes and with great erudition lightly worn. Time and again her comments have sent me back to pictures which I thought I knew, but which turn out to be... Tovább

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The Companion Guide introduces art lovers to one of the richest and most representative collections of Western European paintings in the world, including famous works by the greatest painters - Piero della Francesca, Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, Ingres, Degas and many others - and masterpieces by less familiar artists.
Through her commentaries on 200 of the National Gallery's finest works of art, Erika Langmuir enables the visitor and reader to trace the history of European painting from the thirteenth to the twentieth century, to develop an eye for style, technique, imagery and genre, and to appreciate the talents of individual artists producing paintings for different locations and patrons, in a variety of artistic and cultural contexts.
'Erika Langmuir has the rare kriack of coming at pictures both with spontaneous eyes and with great erudition lightly worn. Time and again her comments have sent me back to pictures which I thought I knew, but which turn out to be even richer than I had imagined. And I suspect that will be the experience of every reader.'
Neil MacGregor, Director
'The new National Gallery Companion Guide is exemplary: informative, readable, enticing.' William Feaver, The Observer, Books ofthe Year
' the finest book of its kind, however different in scope and intent, since Gombrich's The Story of Art.' Bryan Robertson, The Guardian
' one of the best guides to a collection I have seen deserves a place in all good art sections.' The Bookseller
Erika Langmuir was educated in France and the United States, and came to England on a Kress Fellowship to the Warburg Institute in London. She has taught at the University of Sussex and held the Chair of Art History at the Open University before becoming Head of Education at the National Gallery in 1988. , Vissza