Author

Publication

1969 - Thames & Hudson, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

281,000 words, Guess

Page Count

1,124 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC759.9/4
  • LCCND160 .C25

Description

A history of Western painting and its artists. Biographical and critical essays on more than 450 individual painters, covering the development of painting from the close of the Middle Ages in Italy, when Giotto revolutionized the art of painting in the great frescoes in the Arema Chapel in Padua, down through Cezanne and his revolution in painting.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The lives of the paintersThames & Hudson1969-01-01

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