An Illustrated Dictionary of Narrative Painting, Thoma, Anabel, Very Good

Like new paperback\ncopy BUT there is an inscription inside the front cover. 1st Edition. Not\nlibrary copy, no creasing to spine. 8vo. 268pp. B/w illustrations throughout. Published\nby John Murray in association with the National Gallery, London, 1994.\n\nThe\nenjoyment of a narrative painting (that is to say a painting that tells a\nstory) is greatly enhanced by knowledge of the story that it tells. Originally\npainters could expect their public to recognize the subjects of their narrative\npaintings. However, over the years people have become less familiar with the\nnarrative sources used (the Greek and Roman myths and legends, the Bible,\nmedieval lives of the saints, European history, and so on) and it has therefore\nbecome necessary to explain the stories behind the images. This dictionary,\nbased on the National Gallery collection in London, is a key to narrative\npainting. Not only does it relate the stories that inspired the paintings, it\nalso shows how different painters .