The Oxford Companion to Art

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Art written by Harold Osborne and published by Oxford : Clarendon P.. This book was released on 1970 with total page 1310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Companion to Art is a handbook for readers who want an accessible introduction and work of reference to the fine arts. It contains around 3,000 entries varying from brief descriptions to longer articles that give both a survey of their subject and a guide of national and regional schools of art, styles, techniques, and iconography, and there are short biographies of painters, sculptors, and references helps the reader to supplement the information given in any one article and there is a large selective bibliography.