A survey organised into seven styles and periods - 'Mannerism and Spirituality', 'An Uneasy Century', 'German Baroque', 'Portrait and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century', 'The Romantic Movement', 'Realism and Symbolism' and 'The Main Trends in the Twentieth Century'; 58 tipped-in colour plates, translated by W.J. Strachan.
