Portraits

Portraits book cover — JOY FRISCH-SCHMOLL Portraits CREATIVE EDUCATION

Portraits — page 1 — Published by Creative Education P O Box 227 Mankato Minnesota 56002 Creative Education is an imprint of The Creative Company www thecreativecompany us Design and production by Liddy Walseth Art direction by Rita Marshall Printed in the United States of America Photographs by Alamy The Art Gallery Collection World History Archive Artists Rights Society 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc Artists Rights Society ARS New York Art Resource Erich Lessing The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Bridgeman Art Library Samuel Courtauld Trust Chuck Close courtesy The Pace Gallery Corbis Bettmann Alexander Burkatovski Burstein Collection Gianni Dagli Orti Dreamstime Odyssei Getty Images Apic Will Crocker Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins Imagno Dorling Kindersley Leemage Jean-Francois Millet SuperStock Universal History Archive Vincent van Gogh iStockphoto 221A Oliver Childs Donald Erickson Erik Lam Martin McCarthy Josef Muellek Lee Pettet Duncan Walker The National Gallery Shutterstock 501room Subbotina Anna Jakub Krechowicz optimarc Chris Pole Bruce Rolff shooarts SuperStock Peter Willi Copyright 2013 Creative Education International copyright reserved in all countries No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher Frisch Joy Portraits by Joy Frisch-Schmoll p cm Brushes with greatness Includes bibliographical references and index Summary A survey of the painting genre that focuses on intimate likenesses of human figures examining the genre’s Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data ISBN 978-1-60818-202-2 1 hard cover ISBN 978-1-56660-146-7 eBook Portrait painting I Title ND1300 F75 2012 origins and introducing its notable artists works and styles throughout history 757 dc23 2011040488 First edition 246897531 COVER SELF-PORTRAIT WITH BANDAGED EAR AND PIPE 1889 BY VINCENT VAN GOGH PAGE 2 DETAIL OF THE GLEANERS 1857 BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS MILLET 2

Portraits — page 2 — TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 4 14 26 37 14 13 25 35 45 46 47 48 CHAP TERS E A R LY T R I B U T E S A N D R E M E M B R A N C E S FROMPOPES TOPEASANTS THEGOLDENAGE OFPAINTING T H E C H A N G I N G F AC E O F P O R T R A I T U R E APPRECIATING ART T H E A R N O L F I N I M A R R I AG E MONALISA LASMENINAS S E L F-P O R T R A I T W I T H A S T R AW H AT RESOURCES G L O S S A RY SELECTEDBIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

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