How to study pictures : by means of a series of comparisons of paintings and painters from Cimabue to Monet, with historical and biographical summaries and appreciations of the painters' motives and methods
Charles H. Caffin's art-appreciation manual, published by The Century Co. in New York in 1910, pairs paintings from Cimabue to Monet for side-by-side comparison, addressed to general readers and students learning to look. The plates are halftone reproductions of European paintings — fresco cycles in arched frames, fête galante park scenes, interiors crowded with figures — useful as soft-grained grey source imagery and period compositions.
