A guide to art galleries and museums around the world

Paintings by Whistler, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Sisley, Renoir, Degas, Manet, Morisot, and Van Gogh depict each of the four seasons

Product Description: This account of the life and times of Claude Lorrain, a French 17th-century painter, makes accessible the range and variety of his drawings and oil paintings. He worked principally in the Campagna near Rome, which he used as the basis for his haunting and idyllic paintings of classical myths...read more

Hans Holbein the Younger is renowned for his portraits of Northern Europe's courtiers, thinkers and statesmen, but his output was far more various, and included book illustrations and jewellery designs. This book includes many different examples of his work.

Chronicles the life and work of the sixteenth-century Italian painter and explores the relationship between the artist's paintings and the social movements of the time (view table of contents)

Product Description: This is an invaluable pocket guide to the art of the Western world, covering all the essential places to visit and setting the major works in the collections in their historical and social context. Helen Langdon takes us to the best-loved museums around the world, but also to a vast selection of minor but equally fascinating galleries, churches, villas, and houses, where she draws our attention to outstanding paintings and sculptures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe and still resonates today. Almost everything we know about his life comes from these three early biographies, and they reflect the often horrified fascination that Caravaggio exerted on his contemporaries...read more