Rendez-Vous with Art

by Martin Gayford and Philippe de Montebello

Beginning with a fragment of yellow jasper--all that is left of the face of an Egyptian woman who lived 3,500 years ago--this book confronts the elusive questions: how, and why, do we look at art?

Philippe de Montebello and Martin Gayford talked in art galleries or churches or their own homes, and this book is structured around their journeys. But whether they were in the Louvre or the Prado, the Mauritshuis of the Palazzo Pitti, they reveal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 050023924X
• ISBN13: 9780500239247
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"