Description: -- 400 full-color at reproductions
-- Profiles 222 of the greatest artists in Western art
-- Arranged alphabetically by artist and fully cross-referenced
-- Each entry includes a quick-reference biography sidebar, a feature box on the artist's style, a brief essay on the artist's life and work, and 1 or 2 color reproductions
-- Each volume features a timeline of movements in art
-- Final volume contains entries on major schools and movements in art, a timeline, further reading list, and a master index.

A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated guide to the world of art, this six-volume set is a fact-packed introduction to over 200 of the most renowned painters and sculptors of the Western tradition. Featuring artists from the Middle Ages through the present, the series is authored by leading art historians and written in a vivid, highly readable style that will be easily accessible to young adult readers in middle through high school.

The first five books in the set contain biographical entries on 222 artists in an A-Z format. Each entry contains a brief essay that focuses on the distinguishing characteristics of the artist's life and work. The essay is supplemented with a quick-reference biographical data file, a feature box discussing the artist's style, and color reproductions of his/her most representative paintings/sculptures. Cross-references to other artists and movements accompany each entry. Each volume also contains an art timeline. The final volume collects entries on the major schools and movements in art -- from Abstract to Utrecht School -- as well as a master index to the series, a glossary, and further reading list.

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