Table of Contents
Preface John Berger xi
Introduction Tom Overton xiii
1 The Chauvet Cave Painters (c. 30,000 years BC) 1
2 The Fayum Portrait Painters (1st-3rd century) 7
3 Piero della Francesca (c. 1415-92) 12
4 Antonello da Messina (c. 1430-79) 17
5 Andrea Mantegna (1430/1-1506) 23
6 Hieronymous Bosch (c. 1450-1516) 35
7 Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525-69) 41
8 Giovanni Bellini (active about 1459, died 1516) 44
9 Matthias Grünewald (c. 1470-1528) 49
10 Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) 56
11 Michelangelo (1475-1564) 62
12 Titian (?1485/90-1576) 67
13 Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543) 81
14 Caravaggio (1571-1610) 87
15 Frans Hals (1582/3-1666) 96
16 Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) 112
17 Rembrandt (1606-69) 137
18 Willem Drost (1633-after 1663) 159
19 Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) 167
20 Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) 171
21 Honoré Daumier (1808-79) 198
22 J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) 203
23 Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) 209
24 Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75) 215
25 Gustave Courbet (1819-77) 226
26 Edgar Degas (1834-1917) 236
27 Ferdinand 'Le Facteur' Cheval (1836-1924) 244
28 Paul Cezanne (1839-1906) 252
29 Claude Monet (1840-1926) 255
30 Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) 267
31 Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) 275
32 Henri Matisse (1869-1954) 279
33 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) 283
34 Femand Léger (1881-1955) 290
35 Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967) 304
36 Henry Moore (1898-1986) 309
37 Peter Lazslo Peri (1899-1967) 319
38 Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) 324
39 Mark Rothko (1903-70) 329
40 Robert Medley (1905-94) 332
41 Frida Kahlo (1907-54) 335
42 Francis Bacon (1909-92) 341
43 Renato Guttuso (1911-87) 353
44 Jackson Pollock (1912-56) 361
45 Pollock and Lee Krasner (1908-84) 365
46 Abidin Dino (1913-93) 372
47 Nicolas de Stael (1914-55) 375
48 Prunella Clough (1919-99) 382
49 Sven Blomberg (1920-2003) 386
50 Friso Ten Holt (1921-97) 390
51 Peter de Francia (1921-2012) 394
52 Francis Newton Souza (1924-2002) 399
53 Yvonne Barlow (1924-) 401
54 Ernst Neizvestny (1925-) 404
55 Leon Kossoff (1926-) 410
56 Anthony Fry (1927-) 422
57 Cy Twombly (1928-2011) 426
58 Frank Auerbach (1931-) 428
59 Vija Celmins (1938-) 430
60 Michael Quanne (1941-) 434
61 Maggi Hambling (1945-) 439
62 Liane Birnberg (1948-) 445
63 Peter Kennard (1949-) 448
64 Andres Serrano (1950-) 452
65 Juan Muñoz (1953-2001) 455
66 Rostia Kunovsky (1954-) 466
67 Jaume Plensa (1955-) 472
68 Cristina Iglesias (1956-) 475
69 Martin Noel (1956-2008) 478
70 Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) 482
71 Marisa Camino (1962-) 486
72 Christoph Hänsli (1963-) 489
73 Michael Broughton (1977-) 494
74 Randa Mdah (1983-) 497
Acknowledgements 503