Great masters of European painting
By: Monique de Beaucorps and Raoul Ergmann ; translated by Willard Wood.
Contributors: Ergmann, Raoul.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
Subjects: Painting, European
Description: This comprehensive survey lays out in chronological progression the lives and works of the artists whose masterpieces make up the history of European painting, from the late Gothic masters of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to the Cubists and Surrealists of the early twentieth century, to the postmodernists of our own day. In the work of these artists we can observe the great movements of art history - the dawn of the Renaissance, the birth of Realism, and the rise of abstraction.

The artists are represented by full-color illustrations of their most important and characteristic paintings, accompanied by concise, authoritative discussions of their life and work.
Notes: Chronology: p. 549-559.