Now available in an updated edition, this generously illustrated book is
a tour of the most important Western paintings since the Renaissance.
Spanning seven centuries, this selection of 50 iconic paintings offers
readers a crash course in art history while presenting gorgeous color
reproductions that are a pleasure to contemplate. Starting with Giotto's
Arena Chapel frescoes and continuing through Botticelli's The Birth of
Venus, da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring as
well as works by Monet, van Gogh, Cassatt, Cézanne, Dalí, Kahlo, Hopper,
Pollock, Rothko, and O'Keeffe, nearly every important painter is
represented in this book.