Los secretos de las obras de arte. 100 obras maestras en detalle

<p>This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the <strong>world's most famous paintings</strong> under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and <strong>all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture.</strong><br /><br /> Guiding our eye to the <strong>minutiae of subject and symbolism</strong>, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their <strong>intricacies and intrigues. </strong>Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel from <strong>Ancient Egypt through to modern Europe</strong>, from the <strong>Renaissance </strong>to the <strong>Roaring Twenties. </strong>We meet <strong>Greek heroes and poor German poets</strong> and roam <strong>from cathedrals to cabaret bars</strong>, from the Garden of Eden to a Garden Bench in rural France.<br /><br /> As we pick apart each painting and then reassemble it like a giant jigsaw puzzle, these celebrated canvases captivate not only in their sheer wealth of details but also in the witness they bear to the <strong>fashions and trends, people and politics, loves and lifestyles </strong>of their time.</p>