A concise history of Art 2. From the Renaissance to the Present Day

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369 plates, 8 in colour. About this Work This profound and impartial book covers the history of world art through all its phases and analyses its motives and symbolism and the beliefs from which it emerged. The hundreds of illustrations have been carefully chosen to display the characteristics of particular styles and periods and the text provides the reader with an outline of the evolution of aesthetic ideas and with as many established principles and facts as possible. In Two Volumes Part II The late Renaissance in Italy and its spread through Europe, the Baroque, the 18th century and the revolutionary years of the late 1-- early 20th centuries; a survey of contemporary art and a consideration of those factors in art which are constant and link the arts of different periods and countries. Germain Bazin became Conservateur-en-Chef of the Louvre in 1950. After graduating as a Doctor of Letters in 1934, he was a Lecturer at the University of Brussels. In 1937 he was appointed Curator of the Department of Paintings, Drawings and Chalcography at the Louvre and in 1941 was Professor of theoretical and practical museology in the Ecole du Louvre. Above all M. Bazin is a meticulous scholar who succeeds in presenting his always original thought with a clarity and liveliness of expression which makes him one of the leading art historians of his generation. His publications include: The Loom of Art, Baroque and Rococo, The Louvre, Impressionist Paintings in the Louvre and A Gallery of Flowers all of which are published by Thames and Hudson. Contents VIII The Renaissance in Europe in the Sixteenth Century 1 Italy 2 The Spread of the Renaissance in Europe 3 The Minor Arts IX The Baroque Period 1 Baroque Europe 2 The Resistance to Baroque X The Nineteenth-Century Crisis 1 Art in France 2 Western Art outside France 3 The Minor Arts XI The Civilizations of the Far East 1 Indian Art 2 The Expansion of Indian Art 3 Chinese Art 4 The Expansion of Chinese Art: Japan XII Art Now 1 The Revolution in Architecture 2 The School of Paris 3 The National Schools 4 The Minor Arts