Lives of the Painters, Complete Four Volume Hardcover Set in Slipcase: I- Late Gothic to High Renaissance, II- Baroque, III- Neoclassic to Post-Impressionist, IV- Plates & Index (Books 1, 2, 3, and 4)

Four hardcover volumes in good slipcase. Includes 352 color and black & white plates, and a Frederic Remington Museum insert. CONTENTS: VOLUME ONE: Author to Reader; Giotto, Duccio, and the End of the Middle Ages in Italy; The Fifteenth Century in the North; The Early Florentine Renaissance; The Later Fifteenth Century in Florence and Umbria; The Fifteenth Century in Northern Italy and Venice; The High Renaissance; Durer and Grunewald; The Sixteenth-Century Crisis in Italy, Spain, and France; The Sixteenth Century in the North; VOLUME TWO: Caravaggio and a Revolution; The Carracci and the Return to Tradition; Rubens and the Glory of Power; Vermeer and the Quietest Revolution; Classical Idealism and Despotism; The Seventeenth Century in Spain; Three Personalities: Elsheimer, Callot, and Rosa; Eighteenth-Century Italy: A Postscript; Eighteenth-Century France and England; Eighteenth-Century France; Eighteenth-Century England and America; English Country Life and Landscape; Bridges to the Nineteenth Century; VOLUME THREE: Early Nineteenth-Century Romantics Outside France; The Classic-Romantic Schism in France; Romantic Realism in France and Germany; The Impressionist Victory; Victorian England; The American Adventure; Eakins and Cezanne; VOLUME FOUR: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; The Plates; Index.