Painting: From its Origins to the 20th Century torrent

Painting: From its Origins to the 20th Century

Golden Press | 1969 | ISBN: N/A | English | 244 pages | PDF | 42.6 MB


This book, one of the Golden Art Guide series, provides a compact yet comprehensive guide to world painting—from its origins to the beginning of the 20th century. The author, assistant curator of drawings at The Louvre, Paris, first reviews painting techniques and the meaning and content of paintings. She then discusses the painting and all the leading painters of the great productive centres: the ancient and Christian worlds, the Middle and Far East, the prolific centres of Europe-Italy, France, Germany, the Low Countries, Spain and England—and, in the New World, the United States. Biographical and interpretative comment on more than 160 artists plus representative illustrations in full colour and black and white reveal the significance of each painter