Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired Their Names

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

352 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction art informative slow-paced
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How the practice of titling paintings has shaped their reception throughout modern historyA picture's title is often our first guide to understanding the image. Yet paintings didn't always have titles, and many canvases acquired their names from c...

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