Painters: Masters of Western Art

by Carolyn Vaughan

Book Overview

FANDEX brings the world of Western Art to your fingertips with a field guide to painters, their legacies and the often extreme lives they led. A chronology from Giotto, the first modern painter, to Frank Stella, whose black paintings proclaimed "what you see is what you see." Here is Michelangelo, who resented having to paint the Sistine Chapel because it took him away from sculpture. Botticelli and Vermeer, whose work languished in obscurity until...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761123598
• ISBN13: 9780761123590
• Release Date: May 2001
• Publisher: Workman Publishing
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.4" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 4 to Postsecondary