A History of European Art

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Hagen, Rose-Marie, and Rainer Hagen. Pieter Bruegel the Elder,
c. 1525–1569: Peasants, Fools and Demons. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag,



  1. Shows details of Hunters in the Snow and The Conversion of St. Paul.


Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art. Rev. ed. Boulder,
CO: Westview Press, 1974. Indispensable.


Harbison, Craig. The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in
its Historical Context. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995. An
insightful short introduction to the period.


Harris, Ann Sutherland. Art and Architecture of the Seventeenth Century.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005. A ¿ ne introduction to the
Baroque by a leading scholar.


Hartt, Frederick. Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. 4th
ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997. 2 vols. Authoritative and
elegantly written; this is probably the most comprehensive introduction to
the history of European art.


Hartt, Frederick, and David G. Wilkins. History of Italian Renaissance Art.
5 th ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2003. A very readable classic survey of
the period, regularly updated.


Herbert, Robert L., and Neil Harris (contributor). Seurat and the Making of
La Grande Jatte. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004. An in-
depth study of the artist and his masterpiece.


Hibbard, Howard. Caravaggio. New York: HarperCollins Publishers,



  1. One of the most readable of the modern reevaluations of
    Caravaggio’s work.


Humphrey, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Collected essays covering
important topics and themes in the artist’s career.

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