Information about 45 famous paintings and the artists who made them.

Includes index.

Looking at paintings -- What makes a masterpiece? -- Giotto : The Adoration of the Magi -- Fra Angelico : The Annunciation -- Van Eyck : The Arnolfini Marriage -- Van der Weyden : The Deposition -- Piero : The Baptism of Christ -- Uccello : The Battle of San Romano -- Botticelli : The Birth of Venus -- Bosch : The Garden of Earthly Delights -- Leonardo : The Mona Lisa -- Giorgione : The Tempest -- Michelangelo : The Sistine Chapel Ceiling -- Raphael : The School of Athens -- Grunewald : The Isenheim Altarpiece -- Titian : Bacchus and Ariadne -- Holbein : The Ambassadors -- Bruegel : Netherlandish Proverbs -- El Greco : The Burial of Count Orgaz -- Caravaggio : The Supper at Emmaus -- Rubens : Samson and Delilah -- Rembrandt : Belshazzar's Feast -- Poussin : A Dance to the Music of Time -- Steenwyck : The Vanities of Human Life -- Claude : The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah -- Velázquez : Las Meninas -- Vermeer : The Artist's Studio -- Watteau : A Journey to Cythera -- Canaletto : Arrival of the French Ambassador -- Chardin : The Governess -- Gainsborough : Mr. and Mrs. Andrews -- Wright of Derby : The Experiment with an Air Pump -- David : The Oath of the Horatii -- Turner : Hannibal Crossing the Alps -- Goya : The Third of May 1808 -- Gericault : The Raft of the Medusa -- Constable : The Hay Wain -- Hunt : The Awakening Conscience -- Courbet : The Painter's Studio -- Monet : Autumn Effect at Argenteuil -- Degas : The Dance Class -- Renoir : The Luncheon of the Boating Party -- Manet : A Bar at the Folies-Bergère -- Seurat : La Grande Jatte -- Van Gogh : The bedroom at Arles -- Cezanne : Still Life with Plaster Cast -- Picasso : Guernica -- Glossary.