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A stunning exploration of over 80 famous artists and their fascinating lives, from Leonardo da Vinci to Frida Kahlo.

Artists: Their Lives and Works tells the inspiring stories behind the world´s most famous masterpieces and their creators, including their influences, development, friendships, loves, and rivalries. Discover the often tumultuous lives of iconic artists including Raphael, Hogarth, van Gogh, O´Keeffe, Magritte, Warhol, and Kiefer.

Uncover the unconventional tales of the artists´ lives, including Holbein´s matchmaking portraits for Henry VIII, Caravaggio´s thuggish reactions to a badly-cooked artichoke, and the many romantic affairs of Picasso. Lavishly illustrated biographies for every artist reveal these visionaries at work in their studios, as well as the unique techniques, artworks, and personalities that made them into legends.

Featuring a foreword by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Artists: Their Lives and Works is the ideal gift for art lovers old and young, and a uniquely fascinating look at the lives of these creators.

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1: Foreword
2: Before 1500 1: Giotto
2: Jan van Eyck
3: Donatello
4: Masaccio
5: Piero della Francesca
6: Giovanni Bellini
7: Sandro Botticelli
8: Hieronymus Bosch
9: Directory

3: 16th Century 1: Leonardo da Vinci
2: Wen Zhengming
3: Albrecht Dürer
4: Michelangelo
5: Titian
6: Raphael
7: Hans Holbein
8: Pieter Bruegel the Elder
9: El Greco
10: Directory

4: 17th Century 1: Caravaggio
2: Peter Paul Rubens
3: Artemisia Gentileschi
4: Nicolas Poussin
5: Gianlorenzo Bernini
6: Anthony van Dyck
7: Diego Velázquez
8: Kano Tan´yu
9: Rembrandt
10: Jan Vermeer
11: Wang Hui
12: Directory

5: 18th Century
1: Jeong Seon
2: Jean-Antoine Watteau
3: Giambattista Tiepolo
4: Canaletto
5: William Hogarth
6: Jean-Siméon Chardin
7: Ito Jakuchu
8: Thomas Gainsborough
9: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
10: John Singleton Copley
11: Franciso de Goya 12: Jacques-Louis David
13: Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
14: Antonio Canova
15: Directory
6: 19th Century
1: Katsushika Hokusai
2: Caspar David Friedrich
3: J M W Turner
4: John Constable
5: Eugène Delacroix
6: Gustave Courbet
7: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
8: Edouard Manet
9: James McNeill Whistler
10: Edgar Degas
11: Paul Cézanne
12: Auguste Rodin
13: Claude Monet
14: Henri Rousseau
15: Ilya Repin
16: Paul Gauguin
17: Vincent van Gogh
18: Directory
7: Early 20th Century
1: Gustav Klimt
2: Edvard Munch
3: Wassily Kandinsky
4: Henri Matisse
5: Piet Mondrian
6: Constantin Brancusi
7: Paul Klee
8: Pablo Picasso
9: Edward Hopper
10: Amedeo Modigliani
11: Marc Chagall
12: Georgia O´Keeffe
13: René Magritte
14: Henry Moore
15: Directory
8: 1945 to present
1: Alberto Giacometti
2: Mark Rothko
3: Salvador Dalí
4: Frida Kahlo
5: Francis Bacon
6: Jackson Pollock
7: Bernard Buffet
8: Andy Warhol
9: Anish Kapoor
10: Takashi Murakami
11: Directory
9: Index of artworks
10: General index
11: Acknowledgments

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Dixon, Andrew Graham
Andrew Graham Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television programmes in the English-speaking world. He has presented six landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed A History of British Art, Renaissance, and Art of Eternity, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. For more than 20 years, he has published a weekly column on art, first in the Independent and, more recently, in the Sunday Telegraph. He has written a number of books on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture, to contemporary art.

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