Customer Reviews

Paintings in The National Gallery, London

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Without question, a must-have for any serious art lover. The quality of the text and illustrations are first-rate as is expected from the arguably finest art book publisher of our time. As essential to any library as "Paintings in the Vatican" and "Paintings in the Uffizi and Pitti." Keep them coming, Bulfinch!

I have numerous large books of this ("Paintings of the")type and this one has delighted me most. The many reproductions in this book are stunning - large, sharp and vivid is the rule rather than the exception. If you own the books on the Louvre, Musee d'Orsay, and Hermitage you'll love this because it outshines them.

Many thanks to the reviewer who mentioned that Bulfinch published this. I just noticed that Bulfinch also publishes Eisler's Masterworks in Berlin which also outshines the books above and is another favorite of mine. It's time to check my wishlist for Bulfinch publications and up their priority.

Context: I'm not an academic or a scholar; I'm a regular guy who likes visiting museums when I travel and I wanted to do a little researach before I left. This book worked well for my daughter and I to determine which parts of the museum deserved the most time (on a short trip) and to get a better understanding of the works. I'm not qualified to evaluate it from an academic perspective, but as a layman it was exactly what we needed.

Excellent quality book. The pictures are very well presented and the texts are very precise.

A great book with large pictures from the National Gallery. It is organized by era. I wish that there was some scholarly information regarding each painting. But still, a nice book to have picked up.

I first saw this in Borders and it was way too expensive at the time but it was a book I watched for years to come down in price. I finally found a copy and it is the best art book I own. The paintings are beautifully printed and because of it's large size, you can clearly see the detail. When looking at an art book, I personally do not want pages and pages of written text regarding the art and this one does not have that. It explains briefly about each painting and gives all the info I need. To me that is more of the experience of visiting a museum, to not be interrupted from the art.