Download or read book What Great Paintings Say written by Rose-Marie Hagen and published by Taschen. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen put questions to world-famous masterpieces. They show what painters were allowed to portray and what their clients demanded. They tell of love, money, politics, suffering, greed, raw ambition and sensual indulgence, and disclose what pictures spanning six centuries can still relate.