The lives of the painters
By: [by] John Canaday.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1969
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1124
Subjects: Painting, Modern; Painters -- Biography
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.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Late Gothic to High Renaissance.; title: v. 2. Baroque.; title: v. 3. Neo-classic to Post-impressionist.; title: v. 4. Plates and index.