JULIET HESLEWOOD studied History of Art at London University and later gained an MA in English Literature at Toulouse. For over twenty-five years she lived in France where she devised and led study tours on art and architecture as well as continuing her writing career. Her books include The History of Western Painting for young people which was translated into twelve languages. She also wrote its companion on sculpture and Introducing Picasso. Juliet now lives in Oxfordshire where she continues to write and is a freelance lecturer in the History of Art.

Includes works of art from: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Clemens-Sels Museum, Nuess Guildhall Art Gallery, London Kunstmuseum, Basel Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louvre, Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Mucha Museum, Prague Musee d'Orsay, Paris Musee Picasso, Paris Museo de Bellas Artes, Seville National Gallery of Art, Washington National Gallery of Australia, Canberra National Gallery, London Neue Pinakothek, Munich Tate Gallery, London Uffizi, Florence Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam V&A, London