Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum

by Burton B. Fredericksen, Denise Allen (Primary Contributor), Dawson Carr (Primary Contributor)

This handsome book reproduces and describes fifty of the most prized paintings in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum. Included are the most recent acquisitions--Van Gogh's Irises , Titian's Venus and Adonis , Canaletto's View of the Grand Canal , and Pontormo's Portrait of Cosimo
de'Medici --as well as such great works as Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi , Carpaccio's Hunting on the Lagoon , van Dyck's Portrait of Agostino Pallavicini , ter Brugghen's Woman with an Ape , Rembrandt's Saint Bartholomew , Poussin's Holy Family , David's Portrait of the Sisters Zénaide and Charlotte
Bonaparte , Renoir's La Promenade , Ensor's Christ's Entry into Brussels in 1888 , and Alma Tadema's Spring .

Genres: Art

112 pages, Paperback

First published September 29, 1988