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Paperback How to Understand a Painting: Decoding Symbols in Art Book
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ISBN: 071123213X

ISBN13: 9780711232136

How to Understand a Painting: Decoding Symbols in Art

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Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Fran? oise Barbe-Gall illuminates our understanding of how these have been used and developed in art from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century, with sixty-eight wonderfully vivid examples.

Painting has always made abundant use of forms and objects to convey abstract ideas: love, hope for eternal life, loyalty...

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