Looking at paintings is a series of books designed to present many different painters'views of a single subject.Here is a visual feast of paintings,each of which shows us something about what great artists see when they paint.
In Seascapes,Peggy Roalf leads readers on a personal gallery tour of nineteen favorite paintings of the sea and its surroundings.The paintings are as varied as the weather on the oceans of the world.From a seventeenth-century painting that shows the great warrior Ulys

introduction
a sanctuary by the sea
landscape with the fall of icarus
naval battle
seaport with ulysses returning chryseius to her father
the whale ship
tours sunset
lake leman at sunset
impression
the shore of the turquoise sea
women bathing
the english channel at grandcamp
eight bells
seine barges
summer afternoon
sailing
the cove
the casino at nice,night
the pigeons
to the island
glossary and index
credits