When Homer Met Van Gogh—Western History in World Famous Paintings

Author: Sun Liang
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: If an interesting historical story book is a crystal snowflake, then true history is the snow avalanche that fills the sky when you look up from the mountain peak—countless historical books, biographies, chronicles, local gazettes, and monographs, overwhelming you in a nightmare. But this does not mean history is a tangled mess with no starting point, and people are not just blind men touching only a small part of an elephant. On the contrary, history contains some very interesting patterns, like the spell to open a door, a formula in physics, or the PIN of an ATM card. Who understands these patterns truly possesses the treasure, truly owns this book. With the interpretation of 100 world-famous paintings, it reveals the historical content they contain and tells the development of Western civilization, making it an easy-to-understand, novel, and exciting collection of Western historical stories.