Masterpieces of Western Art - a history of art in 900 individual studies from the Gothic to the Present day: Part 1 - from the Gothic to Neoclassicism

" ... nine expert writers present over 900 picture analyses ranging from Goiotto to Jean -Michel Basquiat, born 1960.
The period from the Gothic to the present is divided into ten chapters with detailed introductions, directed at advanced museum -goers but also painless reading for lay readers - they constitute in fact a concise developmental history as a solid foundation for the individual studies...536 potted biographies in the appendix make a reference work of this fine compendium."