When Homer Met Van Gogh (Western History in World Famous Paintings)

Author: Sun Liang
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This book is about Western history in world-famous paintings. Lin Yutang once wrote, "If you got a perfect score on your world history exam, does that really represent a one percent understanding of world history?" If an interesting historical story book is a crystal snowflake, then true history is the snow avalanche you see when you raise your head from the mountain—countless historical books, biographies, chronicles, local records, and monographs, overwhelming you in a nightmare. But this doesn’t mean history is a tangled mess with no starting point, and people aren’t 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 and truly owns this book. With the interpretation of 100 world-famous paintings, this book reveals the historical content they contain and tells the development of Western civilization, making it an easy-to-understand, novel, and exciting collection of Western historical stories.