Book Review

This... book, brief and lively for young readers, shows art and describes history with wide empathy in context. You will see and read of gray whales painted near full-size five years back on a powerhouse wall along the coastal highway in Los Angeles. A grave and marvelous Christ painted large 900 years ago in the dome of a little Catalonian church is here, and also the most celebrated of ceilings, that of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo... Painter Pablo Picasso "is said to have exclaimed" on his visit to Lascaux: "We have invented nothing!"

~ Philip amd Phylis Morrison, Scientific American exerpt