What can you expect in Speaks the Masterpiece, the new book by Beata Jerzakowska? Audio descriptions of a whole array of paintings from the world canon. Here is the alphabetical list of painters from all over Europe:
Michał Elwiro Andriolli, b. Mykolas Elvyras Andriolis (1836–1893) — Lithuanian Polish; History painting
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) — Italian; mannerism
Zdzisław Beksiński (1929–2005) — Polish; dystopian surrealism
Giovanni Bellini (1430–1516) — Italian; Italian Renaissance
William Blake (1757-1827) — English; Romantic
Jheronymus Bosch, b. Jheronimus van Aken (1450–1516) — Dutch; Early Netherlandish painting school
Sandro Botticelli, b. Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (1455–1510) — Italian; early Renaissance
Olga Boznańska (1865–1940) — Polish; French impressionism
Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525/30–1569) — Dutch; Dutch and Flemish Renaissance
Caravaggio, b. Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio (1571–1610) — Italian; Baroque
Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) — French; Post-Impressionist
Marc Chagall, b. Moishe Zakharovich Shagal (1887–1985) — Russian-French; early modernist
Józef Chełmoński, b. Józef Marian Chełmoński (1849–1914) — Polish; late Romantic
Salvador Dalí, b. Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, Marquis of Dalí de Púbol (1904–1989) — Catalan; Spanish surrealism
Jerzy Duda-Gracz, b. Jerzy Dierżysław Duda vel Gracz (1941–2004) — Polish;
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528) — German; German Renaissance
Edward Dwurnik (1943–) — Polish;
Jan van Eyck (a1390–1441) — Flemish; Early Netherlandish painting school
Julian Fałat (1853–1929) — Polish; Polish impressionism
Caspar David Friedrich (1774–1840) — German; German Romantic
Stanisław Garwatowski, or Stefan Adam Gerwatowski (1931–) — Polish; military, abstract
Paul Gaugin, b. Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) — French; Post-Impressionist
Aleksander Gierymski (1850–1901) — Polish; realism, impressionism
Giotto, wł. Giotto di Bondone (c1270–1337) — Italian, Proto-Renaissance
Francisco Goya, b. Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes (1746–1828) — Spanish; Spanish Romantic
El Greco, b. Doménikos Theotokópoulos (Δομήνικος Θεοτοκόπουλος ) (1541–1614) — Greek/ Cretan; Spanish Renaissance
Artur Grottger (1837–1867) — Polish; Polish Romantic
Samuel Hirszenberg, b. Shmuel Hirschenberg (1865–1908) — Polish Jewish; realist
Stanisław Kamocki b. Stanisław Józef Juliusz Kamocki ps. Stefan Kozłowski (1875–1944) — Polish; Young Poland
Wassily Kandinsky, b. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866–1944) — Russian; Expressionism; abstract art
Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) — Austrian; Vienna Secession movement
Juliusz Kossak, b. Juliusz Fortunat Kossak (1824–1899) — Polish; History painting; battle scenes, military portraits and horses.
Bronisław Wojciech Linke (1906–1962) — Polish;
René Magritte, b. René François Ghislain Magritte (1898–1967) — Belgian; surrealist
Tadeusz Makowski (1882–1932) — Polish; School of Paris
Jacek Malczewski, b. Jacek Malczewski herbu Tarnawa (1854–1929) — Polish; symbolism
Jan Matejko also: Jan Mateyko (1838–1893) — Polish; History painting
Henri Matisse, b. Henri-Émile-Benoît Matisse (1869–1954) — French; Fauvism, Modernism, Post-Impressionism
Józef Mehoffer (1869–1946) — Polish; Young Poland, secession
Hans Memling (Memlinc) (1430/35?–1494) — German; Early Netherlandish painting school
Michelangelo, b. Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564) — Italian; High Renaissance
John Everett Millais, b. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (1829–1896) — English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Oscar-Claude Monet (1840–1926) — French; Impressionist
Edward Munch (1863–1944) — Norwegian; Expressionism, Symbolism
Pablo Picasso, b. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (1881–1972) — Spanish; Cubism, Surrealism
Władysław Podkowiński ps. „Andrzej Ansgary” (1866–1895) — Polish; Impressionist, symbolist
Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) — French; Classicism, Baroque
Rembrandt van Rijn, b. Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606–1669) — Dutch; Dutch Golden Age, Baroque
Ferdynand Ruszczyc b. Ferdynand Ruszczyc herbu Lis (1870–1936) — Polish; Young Poland, symbolism
Henryk Siemiradzki, b. Henryk Hektor Siemiradzki (1843–1902) — Polish; Academism
January Suchodolski (1797–1875) — Polish; military, Romantic battle painter
Titian, b. Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio (c1488/90–1576) —Italian; Italian Renaissance
Diego Velázquez, b. Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660) — Spanish; Baroque
Jean-Antoine Watteau, or: Antoine Watteau (1684–1721) — French; Rococo
Andrzej Wróblewski (1927–1957) — Polish; figurative art
Stanisław Ignacy Wyspiański, b. Stanisław Mateusz Ignacy Wyspiański (1869–1907) — Polish; Secession, symbolism
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