The Story
From Giotto to A Concise History of Painting Michael Levey. 549 color illustrations. Outstanding...accurate, free from prejudice, always neat, often stimulating. No better introduction to Western painting has eve been produced. (The Sunday Times). combining serious scholorship with a presentation simple enough to interest the general reader and employing a standard of reproduction good enough to make the result both an intellectual and an aesthetic pleasure. ( the Burlington magazine).
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From Giotto to A Concise History of Painting Michael Levey. 549 color illustrations. Outstanding...accurate, free from prejudice, always neat, often stimulating. No better introduction to Western painting has eve been produced. (The Sunday Times). combining serious scholorship with a presentation simple enough to interest the general reader and employing a standard of reproduction good enough to make the result both an intellectual and an aesthetic pleasure. ( the Burlington magazine).
