A survey of the masterpieces in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., featuring reproductions and descriptions of works of Western art from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century.
A guide to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., that includes more than three hundred photographs of the museum's collections, and offers an overview of art history since the twelfth century.
Collects essays that examine art crimes throughout history, discussing cases of vandalism, iconoclasm, forgery, fraud, war-time looting, archeological looting, smuggling, ransom, and more.
Explains the symbolic meaning of the plants, flowers, fruits, land animals, flying animals, aquatic animals, and imaginary creatures that appear in Western art of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
