With brush and palette

Great painters and their most famous works: 20 gripping stories tell about this in this opulently equipped book. For example, we meet Pieter Bruegel, who appears uninvited at weddings to capture the dancing peasants on his sketchpad; Caravaggio, who punches holes in his ceiling because he wants to capture the light in the picture, or David, who himself does not shy away from death when it comes to his art... Each of these painters has opened a window to a new world with his work, led fresco or oil painting to an unprecedented bloom, set completely new accents with light and shadow effects or turned soup cans into art - and the studio into a factory. Hans Baltzer's illustrations make these colourfully told "art stories" into an unmistakable work of book art.