The Story of Art - 16th Edition

This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art,rom the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists fromhe modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot, Kollwitz, Nolde, dehirico, Brancussi, Magritte, Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence of new "ndings" have been added, and the captions are now fuller, including theedium and dimension of the works illustrated. Six fold-outs present selectedarge-scale works. They are: Van Eyck's "Ghent Altarpiece", Leonardo's "Lastupper", Botticelli's "Birth of Venus", Jackson Pollock's "One (Number 31,950)", Van der Weyden's "Descent from the Cross" and Michelangelo's Sistinehapel ceiling.