An entertaining and informative journey through 1200 years of art history: Starting with the outstanding book illumination of the Book of Kells from the year 800 to Lucian Freud's nude portrait Benefits Supervisor Sleeping from 1995, the book presents an overview of Western art through 100 exemplary masterpieces. In addition to well-known and monumental works such as Sandro Botticelli's The Birth of Venus, Raphael's Sistine Madonna, or Rembrandt's Night Watch, it also features significant smaller paintings like Albrecht Dürer's Self-Portrait and Jan Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Furthermore, the most important representatives of modern art, such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Andy Warhol, are included, extending to contemporary artists like Gerhard Richter and Georg Baselitz. Each artwork is presented with full or double-page illustrations.