LEONARDO FRIDA AND THE OTHERS: THE HISTORY OF ART (HB)

A fresh, engaging, illustrated history of eight centuries of art. The book covers topics such as how museums are structured, how painters use proportion and perspective, and the anatomy of a painting, and offers surprising comparisons between artists such as Sandro Botticelli and Mary Cassatt, Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell, Delacroix and Rubens. Non-western traditions are represented, and numerous women artists restored to the canon. Accompanying the unpretentious but authoritative texts are hundreds of illustrations, reproductions, timelines and sidebars.