To appreciate the meaning and beauty of the great works of art, we must be familiar with the lives of the geniuses who created them, for in their personalities and life-stories lie the key to their masterpieces. Here are the vivid stories of these twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Diego Velasquez, William Hogarth, Joshua Reynolds, Joseph Turner, Goya, Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, Van Gogh, Whistler, Renoir, Cézanne, and Winslow Homer.
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" My MIL gave me this book before I moved to NY. I enjoyed it very much. It was worth the read. I was surprised to find good humor in such an old biographical edition of an art book. "
— Pollopicu, 8/28/2007
Dana Lee Thomas was an associate editor of Barron’s National Business and Financial Weekly. He attended Harvard, where he concentrated on history and economics. During the Second World War, he served as a news editor and military historian attached to the Third Army of General George S. Patton.