Table of Contents

• 1: Foreword
• 2: Before 1500
• • 1: Giotto
  • 2: Jan van Eyck
  • 3: Donatello
  • 4: Masaccio
  • 5: Piero della Francesca
  • 6: Giovanni Bellini
  • 7: Sandro Botticelli
  • 8: Hieronymus Bosch
  • 9: Directory
• 3: 16th Century
• • 1: Leonardo da Vinci
  • 2: Wen Zhengming
  • 3: Albrecht Dürer
  • 4: Michelangelo
  • 5: Titian
  • 6: Raphael
  • 7: Hans Holbein
  • 8: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
  • 9: El Greco
  • 10: Directory
• 4: 17th Century
• • 1: Caravaggio
  • 2: Peter Paul Rubens
  • 3: Artemisia Gentileschi
  • 4: Nicolas Poussin
  • 5: Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • 6: Anthony van Dyck
  • 7: Diego Velázquez
  • 8: Kano Tan’yu
  • 9: Rembrandt
  • 10: Jan Vermeer
  • 11: Wang Hui
  • 12: Directory
• 5: 18th Century
• 1: Jeong Seon
• 2: Jean-Antoine Watteau
• 3: Giambattista Tiepolo
• 4: Canaletto
• 5: William Hogarth
• 6: Jean-Siméon Chardin
• 7: Ito Jakuchu
• 8: Thomas Gainsborough
• 9: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
• 10: John Singleton Copley
• 11: Franciso de Goya
• 12: Jacques-Louis David
• 13: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
• 14: Antonio Canova
• 15: Directory
• 6: 19th Century
• 1: Katsushika Hokusai
• 2: Caspar David Friedrich
• 3: J M W Turner
• 4: John Constable
• 5: Eugène Delacroix
• 6: Gustave Courbet
• 7: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• 8: Edouard Manet
• 9: James McNeill Whistler
• 10: Edgar Degas
• 11: Paul Cézanne
• 12: Auguste Rodin
• 13: Claude Monet
• 14: Henri Rousseau
• 15: Ilya Repin
• 16: Paul Gauguin
• 17: Vincent van Gogh
• 18: Directory
• 7: Early 20th Century
• 1: Gustav Klimt
• 2: Edvard Munch
• 3: Wassily Kandinsky
• 4: Henri Matisse
• 5: Piet Mondrian
• 6: Constantin Brancusi
• 7: Paul Klee
• 8: Pablo Picasso
• 9: Edward Hopper
• 10: Amedeo Modigliani
• 11: Marc Chagall
• 12: Georgia O’Keeffe
• 13: René Magritte
• 14: Henry Moore
• 15: Directory
• 8: 1945 to present
• 1: Alberto Giacometti
• 2: Mark Rothko
• 3: Salvador Dalí
• 4: Frida Kahlo
• 5: Francis Bacon
• 6: Jackson Pollock
• 7: Bernard Buffet
• 8: Andy Warhol
• 9: Anish Kapoor
• 10: Takashi Murakami
• 11: Directory
• 9: Index of artworks
• 10: General index
• 11: Acknowledgments

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About the Author

Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented numerous landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed A History of British Art, Renaissance and Art of Eternity, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. He has a long history of public service in the field of the visual arts, having judged the Turner Prize, the BP National Portrait Prize and the Annual British Animation Awards, among many other prizes. He has served on the Government Art Collection Committee, the Hayward Advisory Committee, and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.