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)