This text is the 16th revised and updated edition of this introduction to art from the earliest cave paintings to experimental art. Eight new artists from the modern period have been introduced. They are: Corot Kollwitz Nolde de Chirico Brancussi Magritte Nicolson and Morandi. A sequence of new endings have been added and the captions are now fuller including the medium and dimension of the works illustrated. Six fold-outs present selected large-scale works. They are: Van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece Leonardo's Last Supper Botticelli's Birth of Venus Jackson Pollock's One (Number 31 1950) Van der Weyden's Descent from the Cross and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling.
