WHAT GREAT PAINTINGS SAY

Did the Greek gods play tennis? What is the ambassador from the land ofAlchemy telling us? What secrets are being told on the shores of theIsland of Venus? What is a monk doing on the Ship of Fools? What GreatPaintings Say has the answers to these and many other burning questionsasked about the most important and famous paintings of all time. In twovolumes, a selection of history`s greatest masterpieces is presentedchronologically, including works by Botticelli, Breughel, Chagall,Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Dürer, Goya, Monet, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renoir,Rubens, Tiepolo, Titian, and many others. Each chapter focuses on onepainting, with enlarged details and in-depth texts describing theirsignificance. Taking apart each painting and then reassembling it againlike a huge jigsaw puzzle, the authors reveal the history of art as alively panorama of forgotten worlds.