How to Read Painting is a visual guide through the main works of art that will allow any reader to quickly understand the grammar and pictorial vocabulary, as well as to discover which elements are most important to interpret a painting and how to locate them. In the first part of the book, the author reveals which are the five aspects in which it is necessary to stop to read a painting: the form and the support, the style and the medium, the composition, the genre, the motifs and the symbols, richer in information the more recurrent they are. In the second part, 50 paintings are analyzed in great detail, whose images are accompanied by simple as well as complete explanations that will help to understand the context in which the works were executed and to unravel all the secrets of pictorial art.