A treasury of art masterpieces

The modern reproduction or color print when it is accurate and sharp can bring us the ideas of the great masters -- reduced in scale perhaps, tuned down as it were -- but complete enough, and now in a wide enough repertoire, to make these masterpieces in a sense our own treasured possessions. One hundred and forty-four such color prints are provided in this comprehensive and admirable collection of great paintings, from the dawn of the Renaissance down to the present. -- Foreword.