Hand has selected nearly 400 masterworks to create not only a sampling of the gallery's collection but also a pleasurable and illuminating history of Western painting.

A classic, beautifully produced survey of a renowned collection​ The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, is renowned for its world-class collection of paintings representing seven centuries of American and European art. Now in the sixth printing since its original publication in 2004, this engaging and broad-ranging volume is a wonderful introduction to the collection and, by extension, to the history of Western painting. The book showcases 400 masterworks, arranged chronologically from a 13th-century Byzantine icon to contemporary works, and provides incisive commentary on each. It features paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Winslow Homer, Paul Cézanne, Mary Cassatt, Barnett Newman, and other distinguished artists, all reproduced in gorgeous color.

A collection of beautiful reproductions of some of the world's greatest masterpieces that have their home within the nation's art collection highlights many recent acquisitions and includes a curator's fascinating commentary. 10,000 first printing.

Presents a collection of nearly four hundred European and American illustrated reproductions from the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC including "Ginevra de'Benci," the only da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

The National Gallery of Art in our nation's capital houses one of the foremost collections of European and American painting in the world, covering more than seven centuries of art - from Byzantine to contemporary - and numbering more than three thousand works. This volume gathers together some of the greatest art in the collection, nearly four hundred masterworks ranging from Ginevra de' Benci, the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Western Hemisphere, to Jackson Pollock's magisterial Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist). - Dust jacket.