Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Ecco, 2006
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
448 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0061176109, 9780061176104
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"This book is published to accompany the television series Simon Schama's Power of Art, created by BBC Arts and first broadcast on BBC2 in 2006"--T.p. verso
Caravaggio : painting gets physical -- Bernini : the miracle worker -- Rembrandt : rough stuff in the halls of the rich -- David : airbrushing the Revolution -- Turner : painting up a storm -- Van Gogh : painting from inside the head -- Picasso : modern art goes political -- Rothko : the music of beyond in the city of glitter
"Published in Great Britain in 2006 by BBC Books"--T.p. verso