his lifelong pursuit of elusive leopards
With over eighty colour plates and a fully illustrated catalogue raisonné
When Crown Prince Gustaf returned from Versailles in 1771 to ascend the throne of Sweden
after a moment of tortured political involvement in the first months of the Republic
presents the work of over one hundred artists from around the world
How to Read a Painting author-made-wijaya his lifelong pursuit of elusiveWithout the intimate knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology, folklore and Christian theology so vivid in the minds of the artists and familiar to their public, we often miss the visual hints that gave contemporary meaning to a painting. How to Read a Painting draws our attention to the imagery and the wonderful, apparently inconsequential details in paintings by Giotto, Botticelli, El Greco, Michelangelo, Rubens, Vermeer, Hogarth, Gainsborough and