Millennia-old cave paintings at Chauvet and Altamira, the gilded pages of the eighthcentury Book of Kells, Leonardo da Vinci's Renaissance sketches, Roy Lichtenstein's counterculture paintings of the 1960s…A Chronology of Art transports readers through a visual "timeline of western culture from prehistory to the present." Filled with colorful reproductions of history's most important artwork and illuminated by insightful text, this beautiful volume deserves a spot on every art lover and history buff 's bookshelf or coffee table. (KG)