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France : the essential guide to viewing art in Paris and its surrounds / Bill and Lorna Hannan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Art for travellersPublisher: New York : Interlink Books, 2004Description: 300 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 156656509X
  • 9781566565097
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 709.4407444 21
LOC classification:
  • N6841 .H36 2003
Contents:
Introduction -- About the trails -- Tips for the traveller -- section 1. Paradise on earth : French art of the Middle Ages -- Introduction -- A brief history of Medieval architecture and art -- Three major figures of Medieval architecture -- An overview of trails in this section -- trail 1. Notre Dame de Paris -- trail 2. Sainte Chapelle -- trail 3. Medieval art in museums -- trail 4. Saint Denis -- trail 5. The Middles Ages in the Latin Quarter -- trail 6. Chartres and Gothic France outside of Paris -- Chartres -- Reims -- Laon -- Soissons -- Beauvais -- section 2. After the naked lunch : impressionists and post-impressionists -- Introduction -- A brief history of impressionist art -- Profiles of the artists -- An overview of the trails in this section -- trail 1. Impressionists and their predecessors -- trail 2. Post-impressionists -- trail 3. Monet and others -- Other museums and suggested day trips -- section 3. Art and anti-art : the 20th century -- trail 1. Modern art in the Pompidou Center -- trail 2. Other museums of modern art -- section 4. World art in the Louvre -- Introduction -- trail 1. Greek and Etruscan art -- trail 2. Italian and French painting -- Other artists, architects and figures of note -- Saints -- Biblical and Christian characters, stories, places, and terms -- Glossary.
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Includes index.

Introduction -- About the trails -- Tips for the traveller -- section 1. Paradise on earth : French art of the Middle Ages -- Introduction -- A brief history of Medieval architecture and art -- Three major figures of Medieval architecture -- An overview of trails in this section -- trail 1. Notre Dame de Paris -- trail 2. Sainte Chapelle -- trail 3. Medieval art in museums -- trail 4. Saint Denis -- trail 5. The Middles Ages in the Latin Quarter -- trail 6. Chartres and Gothic France outside of Paris -- Chartres -- Reims -- Laon -- Soissons -- Beauvais -- section 2. After the naked lunch : impressionists and post-impressionists -- Introduction -- A brief history of impressionist art -- Profiles of the artists -- An overview of the trails in this section -- trail 1. Impressionists and their predecessors -- trail 2. Post-impressionists -- trail 3. Monet and others -- Other museums and suggested day trips -- section 3. Art and anti-art : the 20th century -- trail 1. Modern art in the Pompidou Center -- trail 2. Other museums of modern art -- section 4. World art in the Louvre -- Introduction -- trail 1. Greek and Etruscan art -- trail 2. Italian and French painting -- Other artists, architects and figures of note -- Saints -- Biblical and Christian characters, stories, places, and terms -- Glossary.

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