Fifty famous painters

the long version

A volume offering brief biographies of fifty world-famous painters. But for the general reader to whom the subject is unexplored the reader whose interest lies in human rather than technical aspects of great men's careers, this volume may perhaps be a welcome introduction to a field opening up many avenues of interest and pleasure. The historical summaries at the beginning of each section are intended not as formal criticism but merely to indicate the interweaving threads to pattern in which the individual artists appear in some semblance of perspective. The biography lists many important books and refers to fuller bibliographies comprising critical as well as biographical sources.