Edition Statement From Publisher's Website. Previously Published In 2009. Includes Index.
The Arena Chapel / The tribute money / The Arnolfini portrait / The annunciation / The dead Christ / The birth of Venus / Self-portrait at twenty-eight / The garden of earthly delights / Mona Lisa / La tempest / The creation of Adam / School of Athens / The Isenheim altarpiece / The Venus of Urbino / The wedding at Cana / The tower of Babel / View of Toledo / The death of the virgin / The night watch / Las meninas / Girl with a pearl earring / Death of Marat / The skating minister / The third of May, 1808 / Grande Odalisque / Giotto di Bondone -- Tommaso Masaccio -- Jan van Eyck -- Fra Angelico -- Andrea Mantegna -- Sandro Botticelli -- Albrecht Dürer -- Hieronymus Bosch -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Giorgione -- Michelangelo -- Raphael -- Mattias Grünewald -- Titian -- Paolo Veronese -- Pieter Bruegel the Elder -- El Greco -- Caravaggio -- Rembrandt van Rijn -- Diego Velázquez -- Jan Vermeer -- Jacques-Louis David -- Henry Raeburn -- Francisco de Goya -- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- The wanderer above the sea of fog / The raft of the medusa / Liberty leading the people / Rain, steam and speed / Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe / The artist's mother / Impression-sunrise / The starry night / The child's bath / The scream / Mont Sainte-Victoire / Les demoiselles d'Avignon / The kiss / La danse / The dream / Impression III (concert) / Black square / Petunia No. 2 / American gothic / The persistence of memory / The two Fridas / Nighthawks / Autumn rhythm no. 30 / Black on maroon / Campbell's soup cans / Glossary -- Portrait illustrations. Caspar David Friedrich -- Théodore Géricault -- Eugène Delacroix -- William Turner -- Edouard Manet -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler -- Claude Monet -- Vincent van Gogh -- Mary Stevenson Cassatt -- Edvard Munch -- Paul Cézanne -- Pablo Picasso -- Gustav Klimt -- Henri Matisse -- Henri Rousseau -- Wassily Kandinsky -- Kasimir Malevich -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Grant Wood -- Salvador Dalí -- Frida Kahlo -- Edward Hopper -- Jackson Pollock -- Mark Rothko -- Andy Warhol --
Presents fifty paintings by major artists from the Renaissance to the Twentieth century and includes a brief critical analysis of the work, a timeline for the artist--