Dimensions
222 x 273 x 51mm
Internationally renowned art historian Sister Wendy Beckett brings her knowledge, her deep love of art, and her luminous insights to The Story of Painting - making a difficult subject accessible and stimulating to all. The Story of Painting - features more than 450 masterpieces - all faithfully reproduced in rich, full-colour - chronicling the developments and movements in the history of painting over the past 800 years, from Gothic to Renaissance, Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism to Modernism.The enhanced and expanded edition of The Story of Painting has almost doubled in size. It expands the existing 400 pages to 736, focusing on the approximately 450 paintings with facing pages of details for almost 200 of them.