
The Louvre: Fifty Plates in Colour
by Maurice W. Brockwell Paul G. Konody
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- THE LOUVRE: FIFTY PLATES IN COLOUR
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- EARLY SIENESE SCHOOL
- DUCCIO’S FOLLOWERS
- THE FLORENTINE SCHOOL
- THE GIOTTESQUES
- FRA ANGELICO
- PAOLO UCCELLO
- THE GOLDSMITH PAINTERS
- LEONARDO DA VINCI
- MONA LISA
- BOTTICELLI
- ALBERTINELLI
- ANDREA DEL SARTO
- THE LATER SIENESE SCHOOL
- THE UMBRIAN SCHOOL
- PERUGINO
- RAPHAEL
- THE VENETIAN SCHOOL
- THE BELLINI
- GIORGIONE
- TITIAN
- TITIAN’S FOLLOWERS
- PAOLO VERONESE
- THE PADUAN SCHOOL
- ANDREA MANTEGNA
- THE SCHOOL OF VERONA
- THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA
- THE SCHOOL OF MILAN
- ANDREA SOLARIO
- BERNARDINO LUINI
- THE SCHOOL OF LOMBARDY
- THE SCHOOL OF FERRARA-BOLOGNA
- THE SCHOOL OF CREMONA
- THE SCHOOL OF BRESCIA
- THE SCHOOL OF MODENA
- THE SCHOOL OF VICENZA
- THE SCHOOL OF VERCELLI
- THE SCHOOL OF PARMA
- THE SCHOOL OF BOLOGNA
- THE DECADENT SCHOOLS
- THE “MANNERISTS”
- THE “ECLECTICS”
- THE “NATURALISTS”
- THE EARLY FLEMISH SCHOOL
- JAN VAN EYCK
- THE SCHOOL OF TOURNAI
- HANS MEMLINC
- MEMLINC’S “VIRGIN AND CHILD, WITH DONORS”
- GERARD DAVID
- HIERONYMUS BOSCH
- THE ANTWERP SCHOOL
- BAREND VAN ORLEY
- THE LATE FLEMISH SCHOOL
- PIETER BRUEGHEL
- JAN BRUEGHEL
- THE FRANCK FAMILY
- PETER PAUL RUBENS
- RUBENS AT ANTWERP
- THE MÉDICIS SERIES
- MÉDICIS PORTRAITS
- LATE WORKS BY RUBENS
- ANTHONY VAN DYCK
- VAN DYCK’S SECOND ANTWERP PERIOD
- “LE ROI À LA CHASSE”
- FRANS SNYDERS
- JACOB JORDAENS
- FOLLOWERS OF RUBENS
- ADRIAEN BROUWER
- DAVID TENIERS
- PHILIPPE DE CHAMPAIGNE
- VAN DER MEULEN
- MINOR FLEMISH PAINTERS
- THE GERMAN SCHOOL
- “THE MASTER OF THE BARTHOLOMEW ALTAR”
- COLOGNE PAINTERS
- ALBRECHT DÜRER
- DÜRER’S FOLLOWERS
- LUCAS CRANACH
- HANS HOLBEIN
- THE KRATZER PORTRAIT
- PORTRAIT OF ANNE OF CLEVES
- THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE SPANISH SCHOOL
- LUIS DE DALMAU
- LUIS MORALES
- EL GRECO
- THE SCHOOL OF SEVILLE
- ZURBARÁN
- RIBERA
- VELAZQUEZ
- THE INFANTA
- MARIANA OF AUSTRIA
- COPIES AND SCHOOL PICTURES
- THE “MEETING OF THIRTEEN PEOPLE”
- MURILLO
- “THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION”
- THE “BIRTH OF THE VIRGIN”
- “THE ANGELS’ KITCHEN”
- THE SCHOOL OF MADRID
- GOYA
- THE DUTCH SCHOOL
- GERARD OF HAARLEM
- SIR ANTONIS MOR
- SPANISH OPPRESSION
- HISTORY AND PORTRAIT PAINTERS
- CORNELIS JANSSEN
- FRANS HALS
- DUTCH INDEPENDENCE
- REMBRANDT
- THE PUPILS OF REMBRANDT
- VAN DER HELST
- GENRE PAINTERS
- ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE
- GERARD DOU
- DOU’S PUPILS
- GERARD TERBORCH
- JAN STEEN
- PIETER DE HOOCH
- NICOLAS MAES
- GABRIEL METSU
- LANDSCAPE PAINTERS
- AELBERT CUYP
- JACOB VAN RUISDAEL
- HOBBEMA
- PHILIPS WOUWERMAN
- THE ITALIAN INFLUENCE
- ARCHITECTURAL PAINTERS
- MARINE PAINTERS
- STILL-LIFE PAINTERS
- THE DECLINE
- THE EARLY FRENCH SCHOOL
- THE MAÎTRE DE MOULINS
- THE DE SOMZÉE “MAGDALEN”
- JEAN FOUQUET
- NICOLAS FROMENT
- THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
- JEAN CLOUET’S DRAWINGS
- FRANÇOIS CLOUET
- CORNEILLE DE LYON
- THE SCHOOL OF FONTAINEBLEAU
- JEAN COUSIN
- THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
- THE BROTHERS LE NAIN
- NICOLAS POUSSIN
- CLAUDE LORRAIN
- LE SUEUR
- CHARLES LE BRUN
- PIERRE MIGNARD
- LE BRUN’S FOLLOWERS
- BATTLE PAINTERS
- JEAN JOUVENET
- THE PORTRAIT PAINTERS
- LANDSCAPE PAINTERS
- DESPORTES
- THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
- GENRE PAINTERS
- RAOUX AND DE TROY
- WATTEAU
- THE WATTEAUS IN THE LA CAZE GALLERY
- WATTEAU’S FOLLOWERS
- THE VAN LOO FAMILY
- FRANÇOIS BOUCHER
- SIMÉON CHARDIN
- FRAGONARD
- GREUZE
- PORTRAIT PAINTERS
- TOCQUÉ, VESTIER, AND LÉPICIÉ
- Mme. VIGÉE LE BRUN
- JOSEPH VERNET
- HUBERT ROBERT
- LOUIS DAVID
- THE “CORONATION” PICTURE
- BARON GÉRARD
- BARON GROS
- PIERRE PRUD’HON
- THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SCHOOL
- GÉRICAULT
- DELACROIX
- DELACROIX’S ORIENTAL PICTURES
- INGRES
- DELAROCHE AND SCHEFFER
- DECAMPS
- THE ORIENTALISTS
- REGNAULT
- ACADEMIC PAINTERS
- MICHEL AND HUET
- THE BARBIZON SCHOOL
- COROT
- T. ROUSSEAU
- C. TROYON
- J. DUPRÉ
- DIAZ
- DAUBIGNY
- MILLET
- DAUMIER
- COURBET
- MEISSONIER
- RICARD
- MANET
- THE BRITISH SCHOOL
- CONSTABLE AND HIS IMITATORS
- BONINGTON
- RAEBURN
- SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE
- OTHER PORTRAIT PAINTERS
- I. INDEX OF ARTISTS
- II. GENERAL INDEX
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