LivesoftheGreatArtists

Throughthepagesofthisbook,youngreadersstepintoafamousartist'sstudioinmedievalGermany,RenaissanceItaly,ornineteenth-centuryFrance.Asthemakingofaparticularworkisdescribed,thechildsmellsthepaint,hearsthechiselchippingintomarble,orexperiencesthewondersofaworkingprintingpress.Thetwentyartistsarefeaturedineasy-to-followchronologicalorder:Giotto,LeonardodaVinci,AlbrechtDürer,Michelangelo,Raphael,Titian,HansHolbeintheYounger,ElGreco,Caravaggio,ArtemisiaGentileschi,Bernini,Velázquez,Rembrandt,Goya,Jacques-LouisDavid,Turner,Delacroix,Manet,...