With fresh insight into what the great works meant when they were created and why they appeal to us now, here is a vivid tour of painting, sculpture, and architecture, past and present. "Illuminating . . . a notable accomplishment".--The New York Times. Illustrated.

Experience the uplifting power of art on this breathtaking visual tour of 2,500 paintings and sculptures created by more than 700 artists from Michelangelo to Damien Hirst. This beautiful book brings you the very best of world art from cave paintings to Neoexpressionism. Enjoy iconic must-see works, such as Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper and Monet's Waterlilies and discover less familiar artists and genres from all parts of the globe. Art That Changed the World covers the full sweep of world art, including the Ming era in China, and Japanese, Hindu, and Indigenous Australian art. It analyses recurring themes such as love and religion, explaining key genres from Romanesque to Conceptual art. Art That Changed the World explores each artist's key works and vision, showing details of their technique, such as Leonardo's use of light and shade. It tells the story of avant-garde works like Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe (Lunch on the Grass), which scandalized society, and traces how one genre informed another - showing how the Impressionists were inspired by Gustave Courbet, for example, and how Van Gogh was influenced by Japanese prints. Lavishly illustrated throughout, look no further for your essential guide to the pantheon of world art.

Giotto Duccio de Buoninsegna. Jan van Eyck. Piero della Francesca. Leonardo da Vinci. Hieronymous Bosch. Titian. Nicholas Hilliard; Caravaggio. El Greco. Diego Velazquez. Peter Paul Rubens. Rembrant van Rijn. Jan Vermeer. Antoine Watteau. Joshua Reynolds. Thos Gainsboroug; William Blake. John Constable. Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Eugene Delacroix. William Turner. Jean Millet. William Holman Hunt. Gustave Corbet.; Edouard Manet. Claude Monet. Pierre Auguste Renoir. Edgar Degas. Georges Seurat. Vincent van Gogh. Edward Munch. Paul Cezanne. Paul Gauguin.; Henri Matisse. Pablo Picasso. Wassily Kandinsky. Pierre Bonnard. Fernand Leger. Edward Hopper. Salvador Dali. Paul Klee. Piet Mondrian. Ernst; Jackson Pollock. Jaspar Johns. Frank Stella. Richard Hamilton. Roy Lichenstein. David Hockney._____________

Give the gift of art with this beautifully illustrated volume tracing the development of European painting over six centuries through one hundred pictures--each significant and by a different artist

Seventy-three reproductions of famous Western paintings reveal the changing vision of the American frontier and its inhabitants from the late eighteenth century to the present