How to understand a painting : decoding symbols in art /

Choosing ten symbols from the natural world (the sun, the shell, the bird) and ten man-made (the window, the book, the mirror), Franȯise 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 wonderfu...

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Main Author:	Barbe-Gall, Françoise
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Frances Lincoln, [2010]
Subjects:	Painting > Appreciation. Symbolism in art.