Art and artists of all nations; over four hundred photographic reproductions of great paintings, embracing masterpieces of modern ... art, including more than one hundred and forty of the greatest paintings exhibited in the Department of fine arts at the World's Columbian exposition; descriptions of each painting prepared expressly for this work by well-known writers and art critics, among whom are commissioners of fine arts at the World's Columbian exposition, Angelo Del Nero .. Henri Giudicelli .. J. W. Beck .. [etc.] Edited by John Clark Ridpath.