Key moments in art /
"Key Moments in Art' describes fifty pivotal moments - some famous, others unfamiliar - from the Renaissance to the present day. Vivid, colourful vignettes capture the excitement of their times: when Michelangelo's David or Marcel Duchamp's Fountain were unveiled for the first ti...
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London :
Thames & Hudson,
[2018]
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| Series: | Art essentials.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Renaissance
- Cimabue finds the young Giotto drawing on a rock
- Ghiberti wins the competition to make doors for Florence Baptistery
- Brunelleschi demonstrates linear perspective
- Jan van Eyck completes the Ghent Altarpiece
- Michelangelo unveils his monumental sculpture of David
- Raphael applies to paint the pope's private quarters
- Durer publishes his print of the rhinoceros
- Emperor Charles V picks up Titian's brush
- Early Modern
- Iconoclasts attack Antwerp Cathedral
- Veronese is interrogated by the Inquisition
- Caravaggio murders a young man
- French Academy is founded
- Rembrandt declares bankruptcy
- Velazquez is granted a knighthood
- `Hogarth's Act' grants engravers copyright in their work
- David is commissioned to make a portrait of the assassinated revolutionary Marat
- Louvre opens as a museum
- Nineteenth Century
- Parthenon Marbles go on show at the British Museum
- William Blake sees the ghost of a flea
- Constable wins a Gold Medal
- invention of the Daguerreotype is made public
- patent is issued for the collapsible paint tube
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is formed
- Opening of the Salon des Refuses
- Japan shows at the Exposition Universalle in Paris
- Rodin defends himself
- Cezanne's father dies
- Monet buys his house in Giverny
- Gauguin leaves for Tahiti
- Vienna Secession is founded
- Early Twentieth Century
- term `Cubism' is coined
- Futurist manifesto is published on the front page of Le Figaro
- Mono Lisa is stolen from the Louvre
- `Der Blaue Reiter' exhibition opens
- `0,10' exhibition introduces Suprematism
- Duchamp's Fountain is rejected
- Brincusi's sculpture Bird in Space is seized by US customs
- Premiere of Un Chien Andalou
- Nazis open the `Degenerate Art Exhibition'
- Frida Kahlo meets Andre Breton
- Post-War
- Pollock appears in Life magazine
- Rauschenberg asks de Kooning for a drawing to erase
- Warhol pays $50 for an idea
- Kusama organizes a naked Happening on Wall Street
- Beuys is shut in a gallery with a coyote
- protest outside MoMA leads to the formation of the Guerrilla Girls
- exhibition `Freeze' opens
- Van Gogh's Portrait of Dr Gachet sells for a record price
- Whiteread's House is demolished
- Eliasson brings the weather inside Tate Modern.