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HISTORY
OF
PAINTING
IN
1014
COLOR
REPRODUCTIONS
•J
MASTERPIECES
Altamira
to
the
depicts
the
history
of
West-
ern
painting
from
the
caves
of
Lascaux
and
modern
canvases
fourteen
of
Picasso
and
Orozco.
One
thousand
representative
masterpieces
are
handsomely
reproduced
by
the
most
advanced
graphic-arts
processes,
ors
of
the
originals.
are
represented,
in
the
col-
Over
500
individual
painters
from
the
anonymous
masters
of
Souzdal
and
Novgorod
to
Klee,
Marin,
and
Mondrian.
The
rary
text
was
written
by
important
contempo-
and
scholars
who
have
accom-
critical
his-
art
critics
panied
the
color
illustrations
with
a
tory
of
painting
and
a
concise
the
artists
and
their
times.
is
commentary
on
Each
period,
move-
curator
of
ment,
and
school
example,
Louvre,
painting;
is
analyzed
by
an
authority.
For
Pierre
Devambez,
for
the
responsible
Greek
and
Roman
Jean
Cassou,
head
curator
of
Paris's
of
Museum
critics,
Modern
on
Art,
writes
on
Spanish
painters;
paint-
ing;
Michael
Middleton,
one
of
Britain's
foremost
writes
the
English
and
Joseph-Emile
Muller,
famed
for
his
monographs
on
Joan
Miro,
writes
on
modern
painting
from
Manet
to
the
abstractionists.
is
Each
reproduction
accompanied
by
the
name
and
date of
the
painter
title
(when
known),
in
the
and
date
(where
available)
of
the painting,
collection
and
the
museum
or
housed.
which
it
is
In
addition
to
the
treasures
of
the
Metropolitan
of
New
York,
the
National
Galleries
of
Washing-
Uffizi,
ton
and
London,
the
Louvre,
the
the
Prado,
and
the
Hermitage
of
Leningrad,
the
collections
are
rep-
cream
of
America's
regional
resented;
to
lery,
name
but
a
few:
Albright
Art
Gal-
Buffalo;
City
Art
Museum,
of
St.
Louis;
the
Cleveland
apolis;
Museum;
Institute
Arts,
Minne-
of
mows
Museum
of
Art,
Baltimore;
Museum
Art,
Toledo;
Smith
College
University
Art
Gallery,
tions
Museum
of
Art;
Yale
and
many
private
collec-
and
from
New
York
to
Dallas,
Santa
Fe,
Beverly
Hills.
The
beginnings
Spain,
the
of
painting
are
presented
and
discussed
in
the
cave
paintings
of
France
and
unknown
geniuses
who
enriched
the
temples,
palaces,
Etruria,
and
pottery
of
Egypt,
Greece,
art
of
the
and
Rome.
The
Byzantines
and
painters
is
the
Romanesque
and
medieval
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MASTERPIECES
IN
THE
HISTORY
OF
PAINTING
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