Download or read book Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago written by Art Institute of Chicago and published by Art Inst of Chicago. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of a favorite volume presents 149 of the Art Institute’s treasured European and American paintings, from the Renaissance to the 1990s, with each work reproduced in full color and accompanied by a short, engaging text. A generous sampling of the museum’s world-renowned collection of French Impressionist paintings is featured, along with many earlier European examples, from Renaissance panels and singular pieces by the Old Masters to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American paintings, and twentieth-century works by artists from Matisse to Close.