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Investigates the power and purpose of art through the stories of eight artists and the masterpieces that changed their lives and altered forever the course of art, including Caravaggio, Bernini, Rembrandt, David, Turner, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Rothko.

An illustrated text that describes the lives and works of Italian painters, sculptors, and architects from the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries.

Presents reproductions of nearly every significant work created by Spanish artist Pablo Picasso over the course of his long career, and includes three essays, each discussing a specific period of Picasso's life and work.

Provides information on three hundred artistic movements from 1860 to the present, discussing influential artists and style changes in Western painting, sculpture, architecture, and design.

Presents a collection of three hundred sixty-five full-color illustrated reproductions of Andy Warhol's work from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

A descriptive, illustrated time line that chronicles the story of art throughout the world from prehistoric times to the late twentieth century.

Examines Sigmund Freud's extensive collection of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian antiquities and explores what those collections reveal about the man and his beliefs.

Presents an introduction to modern art, including information on its history, key ideas, the avant-garde, modern media, postmodernism, art dealers, and more.

Presents an introduction to the study of art history, considering the question of what art history is, and discussing how art history is written, the importance of the gallery or museum, the relationship between art and thought, the idea and meaning of art, and the different media and techniques used to produce art.

A young boy, Mario Ravelli, develops a unique relationship with the great painter and inventor, Leonardo da Vinci, particularly because Mario is a time traveler from the year 2523 A.D.