Title: Great artists of the Western world / preface by John Julius Norwich
Description: Introduces the masters of western art, their major works, and their lives and times. Includes representative painters from the major periods of art history from the pre-Renaissance and Renaissance through the baroque, rococo, romantic, impressionistic, and modern eras.
Subjects: Artists, Biography, BIOGRAPHY, ARTISTS
People: Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640), Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788), John Constable (1776-1837), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Frans Hals (1584-1666), Jacques Louis David (1748-1825), James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), Claude Lorrain (1600-1682), Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669), Pol de Limbourg (approximately 1385-approximately 1416), Henri Matisse (1869-1954), J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851), Rogier van der Weyden (1399 or 1400-1464), Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin (1699-1779), Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564), Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), Francʹois Boucher (1703-1770), Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), Joshua Reynolds Sir (1723-1792), Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916), Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Jan van Eyck (1390-1440), Claude Monet (1840-1926), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Nicolas Poussin (1594?-1665), Titian (approximately 1488-1576), Hieronymus Bosch (-1516), Raphael (1483-1520)