Written by Wolfgang Stechow Continuously in print for more than 20 years, Abrams' Masters of Art series has always been known for its exceptional quality and value. Now these classic volumes devoted to the lives and works of the world's greatest painters have been newly redesigned and released in paperback for the first time. Comprehensive introductory texts written by distinguished art historians provide incisive and informative portraits of the artists, and their analysis is accompanied by sketches, related works by other artists, and black-and-white photographs. Each book features 40 full-page, full-color plates with commentaries on the facing page. Even in his own day, the canvases of Pieter Bruegel the Elder attracted wonderment and awe; yet those contemporaries who admired them at the time were almost wholly blind to the astonishing vision of the future that lay hidden within the paintings. Hardcover with jacket, 158 pages, illustrated with 48 large full colour hand-tipped plates, in all 144 reproductions, biography, index, published in the Abrams' Masters of Art series, a general Dutch Heritage title
