The lives of the painters

by John Canaday

Biographical and critical essays on more than 450 individual painters, covering the development of painting from the close of the Middle Ages in Italy, when Giotto revolutionized the art of painting in the great frescoes in the Arema Chapel in Padua, down through Cezanne and his revolution in painting. A history of Western painting and its artists.

400 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1969

Reviews

[Laboratory Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of our favorite popular works of art history--Canaday's text has real literary qualities. A properly illustrated edition would be delightful.

[Derek Henderson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Highly informative, highly readable and at times rather amusing. His views on modern art are supposed to have been antiquated, but he is illuminating on the great names of the past.