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Under the microscope: Paintings’ hidden secrets revealed

This important addition to our understanding of art history’s masterworks puts some of the world's most famous paintings under a magnifying glass to uncover their most small and subtle elements and all they reveal about a bygone time, place, and culture.

Guiding our eye to the minutiae of subject and symbolism, authors Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen allow even the most familiar of pictures to come alive anew through their intricacies and intrigues. Is the bride pregnant? Why does the man wear a beret? How does the shadow of war hang over a scene of dancing? Along the way, we travel from Ancient Egypt through to modern Europe, from the Renaissance to the Roaring Twenties. We meet Greek heroes and poor German poets and roam from cathedrals to cabaret bars, from the Garden of Eden to a Garden Bench in rural France.

As we pick apart each painting and then reassemble it like a giant jigsaw puzzle, these celebrated canvases captivate not only in their sheer wealth of details but also in the witness they bear to the fashions and trends, people and politics, loves and lifestyles of their time.

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Anonymous
Fragment of a wall Painting From the Tomb of Nebamun, before 1350 BC
Anonymous
The Empress Theodora with her Retinue, c-547
Gu Hongzhong
The Night Tevels of Han Xizai, c.960
Anonymous
the Bayeux Tapestry, after 1066
Al- Wasiti
Two miniatures from the Maqamat of al-Hariri, 1237
Anonymous
Miniature from Christine de Pian's "Book of the City of Ladies", c. 1405
Upper Rhenish Master
The Little Garden of Paradise, c. 1410
Robert Campin
The Merode Triptch(Annunciation Triptych/Merode Altarpiece,
in which Joseph is seen Making mousetraps), c1422/1430
Antonio Pisano, Called Pisanello
St George, 1435/1438
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434
Paolo Uccello
the Vattle of san Romano, c1435
Fra Angelico
St Nicholas of Bari, 1437
Jean Fouquet
The Melun Diptych,c.1456
antonio and Piero del Pollaiuolo
Tobias and the Angel,c.1469
andrea Mantegna
Ludovico Gonxaga and His Family, c. 1470
Hans Memling
The Passion, c.1470/1471
Master of the Hours of Mary of Burgundy
Window miniature, 1470/1480
Hugo van der Goes
The Portinari Altar,c.1475
Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus, c.1486
Hieronymus Bosch
The Haywain, 1485/1490
Ercole de'Roverti/Lorenzo Costa
The Ship of the Argonauts, c.1480/1490

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Edouard Manet
The balcony, 1868/1869
Anselm Feuerbach
Medea,1870
Claude Monet
Camille Monet on a Garden Bench(The Bench),1873
Edgar Degas
The Rehearsal on the Stage,1873
Gustave Caillebotte
Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877
Hans Makart
The Entry of Charles V into Antwerp,1878
Arnold Bocklin
The Isle of the Dead,1880
Vasily Surikov
The Morning of theExecution of the Streltsy,1881
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Luncheon of the Boating Party.1881
Georges Seurat
Sunday A Fternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,1884/1886
James Ensor
The Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889,1888
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
At the Moulin Rouge, c. 1893
Edouard Vuillard
Large Interior with Six Figures, 1897
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Potsdamer Platz,1914
Alexander Deineka
Female Texile Workers,1927
Otto Dix
Metropolis(Triptych),1928
Grant Wood
American Gothic,1930
Ben Shahn
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti, 1931/1932
Max beckmann
Birth, 1937, and Death, 1938
Marc Chagall
White Crucifixion, 1938
Diego Rivera
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park1948
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