Five Centuries of British Painting: from Holbein to Hodgkin

Art of the Middle Ages

Janetta Rebold Benton

Thames & Hudson

London

2002

320pp.

ISBN 0 50020350 4

£8.95

World of Art Series

History, Art

This remarkable series continues in two recent volumes, among others of course, expanding its coverage not so much by subjects in these cases as by bringing the contents of the series more up to date with assessments of aspects of art. This is a living and dynamic series which should have no end: art criticism and the response to works of art are as much a moveable feast as art itself. So, Andrew Wilton’s survey...