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Looking at pictures

A thoughtful guide to art appreciation by the Chairman of the Arts Council of Great Britain, who belleves that looking at pictures requress active participation, and in the early stages, a certain amount of discipline. He discusses his ways of looking at paintings by Titian, Velasquez, Van der Weyden, Delacroix, Raphael, Watteau. El Greco, vermeer, Constable, Goya, Scurat, Turner, Da Vinci, Courbet, Botticelli, and rembrandt. telling what elements he perceives, and in what order, and providing historical background where relevant to appreciation

eBook, English, 1960
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1960