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What is Faces: National Gallery Pocket Guide about?

"Faces are everywhere in the National Gallery's Collection: in portraits and narrative scenes, in allegories and paintings of everyday life. But how can the depiction of a face suggest a personality, and how have artists distinguished the features of martyrs and sinners, peasants and poets? How do we understand facial expressions and how subjective is our reading of them?" "Alexander Sturgis tackles these questions, and provides a valuable introduction to such issues as the changing fashions in faces, differing ideals of beauty and the ways in which portrait painters have captured a likeness and conveyed character. It allows us to approach faces in paintings, both at the National Gallery and elsewhere, with a fresh perspective, and to appreciate the thought and skill that has been brought to their portrayal."--Jacket

Author

Alexander Sturgis

Publisher

London: National Gallery Publications ; [New Haven, Conn.]: Distributed by Yale University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9781857092226

Subjects

Art, Arts