Spanning seven centuries, this selection of fifty iconic paintings offers readers a crash course in art history while presenting gorgeous colour reproductions that are a pleasure to contemplate. Starting with Giottos Arena Chapel frescoes and continuing through Botticellis The Birth of Venus, da Vincis Mona Lisa, Vermeers Girl with a Pearl Earring, as well as works by Monet, van Gogh, Cassatt, Cezanne, Dali, Kahlo, Hopper, Pollock, Rothko, and OKeeffe, nearly every important painter is represented in this book. It features works that may be familiar to the eye, but whose histories are ...