Best Books on Visual Art

1
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
by Ernst Gombrich
1,210 members
6 reviews
4
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2
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
by Henry Adams
1,220 members
13 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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3
Color and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction
by John Gage
252 members
4
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4
Abstraction in Art and Nature
by Nathan Cabot Hale
75 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
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6
The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer
by Erwin Panofsky
266 members
½ 4.6
2 Members
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7
Early Netherlandish Painting: Its Origins and Character
by Erwin Panofsky
135 members
½ 4.3
2 Members
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8
Purposes of Art: An Introduction to the History and Appreciation of Art
by Albert Elsen
137 members
1 review
4.2
2 Members
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9
Stained Glass: From Its Origins to the Present
by Virginia Chieffo Raguin
53 members
1 review
½ 4.4
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10
Americans in Paris, 1860-1900
by Kathleen Adler
133 members
4
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11
Color: A Natural History of the Palette
by Victoria Finlay
2,384 members
31 reviews
3.9
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12
The Academy and French Painting in the 19th Century
by Albert Boime
24 members
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13
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
by Ross King
1,216 members
26 reviews
4
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14
Lorenzo Ghiberti
by Richard Krautheimer
30 members
Member
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16
The Materials of Sculpture
by Nicholas Penny
62 members
½ 4.5
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