English translation: Karen Williams and Ishbel Flett.
Source (note)
of Edward Kasinec;
Language (note)
Translated from the German.
Contents
Volume 1. From the Gothic to Neoclassicism / by Robert Suckale [and others]. Gothic: the rebirth of art: from Giotto to Lochner / Robert Suckale ; Early Renaissance: European painting in the 15th century: from Masaccio to Bosch / Manfred Wundram ; Renaissance and Mannerism: European painting in the 16th century: from Leonardo and Dürer to El Greco / Manfred Wundram ; Baroque: the painting of the 17th century in Italy, France, England, Germany and Spain: from Caravaggio to Velázquez / Andreas Prater ; Baroque in the Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish painting in the 17th century: from Rubens to Vermeer / Hermann Bauer ; Rococo and Neoclassicism: the painting in the 18th century: from Watteau to Goya / Eva Gesine Baur.
Volume 2. From the romantic age to the present day / by Barbara Eschenburg [and others]. Romanticism and Realism: painting in the 19th century: from Friedrich to Courbet / Barbara Eschenburg, Ingeborg Güssow ; Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Jugendstil: painting from 1860 to 1910: from Manet to Klimt / Christa von Lengerke ; Classical Modernism: painting in the first half of the 20th century: from Picasso and Matisse to Klee / Volkmar Essers ; Contemporary painting: new movements in painting since 1945: from Pollock to Baselitz / Christa von Lengerke -- Appendix: Biographies of the artists.