TY - BOOK AU - National Gallery of Art ED - Metro, Judy ED - Christen, Barbara S. ED - Shea, Lisa ED - Srrand, John PY - 2016 DA - 2016// TI - Highlights from the National Gallery of Art Washington PB - Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art CY - Washington KW - Catalogs KW - National Gallery of Art (U.S.) KW - Art KW - Washington (D.C.) AB - A guide to more than 400 of the Gallery?s masterworks, with lavish reproductions and insightful commentaries.0The National Gallery of Art is home to the nation?s art collection and a preeminent showcase for the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present. This completely new handbook is compact and easy-to-handle and includes works selected by the Gallery?s curatorial staff from some 145,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, and new media that make up the present collection. Various mediums appear side by side in chronological groupings, a schema that emphasizes the diversity and wealth of the Gallery?s holdings and provides readers with a well-rounded picture of the Western world?s artistic production over time. Periods from the Middle Ages to the 21st century are characterized in six section introductions, with beautiful design treatment and selection of details throughout. This handsome guidebook is available in English, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish editions SN - 9780894683992 LA - English N1 - editor in chief Judy Metro ; edited by Barbara Christen, Lisa Shea, John Strand, ; contributors Nancy Anderson [und 39 Weitere] ID - 853768536 ER -