Les Grands Mystères de la Peinture

The Great Mysteries of Painting

by Denizeau, Gérard

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  • What is the Girl with a Pearl Earring looking at so intently?
  • What anomalies did Van Eyck hide in The Arnolfini Portrait?
  • Who is the mysterious woman depicted in the Mona Lisa?
  • Why did Hans Holbein include in his painting The Ambassadors the image of a distorted skull using an astonishing anamorphosis?
  • Who is looking at whom in Velázquez's Las Meninas?
  • Why has Impression, Sunrise become a cult painting?
  • What terrible fear inspired Edvard Munch's The Scream?
  • Why is Sérusier's The Talisman so fascinating?
  • What clues hidden by Picasso in Guernica overturn the meaning of the work?

One painting can hide another, just as fascinating. The pictorial language is full of enigmas, ambiguities, contradictions... They relate to technique, but also to representation, meaning, and reception. The greatest works of art raise more questions than they answer, and their power of fascination often lies in the mysteries they maintain.

From Botticelli's The Birth of Venus to Magritte's The Empire of Light, the undisputed master of enigma, The Great Mysteries of Painting unveils some of these shadowy areas. A game of hide-and-seek, scattered clues, encrypted meaning, rediscover from a new angle, thanks to an investigation carried out at full speed through overall and detailed analysis, the greatest masterpieces in the history of art. But beware, you will never look at them the same way again...
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