Memoirs in the history of art

This book aims to plant the seed of appreciation for art and its aesthetics in souls. Art is a human need, not only needed by the creator, but also by the recipient. Art is in dire need of it in order to refine himself, elevate his spirit, and raise the status of his humanity... These are major goals of art that will not be achieved without knowledge of art, its history, and its doctrines. And its schools, its figures, and also its aesthetics... and the success of the book in its mission is what made it circulated, despite the publication of its first edition a long time ago. Two-thirds of a century, about sixty-five years since the publication of its first edition, the book has not lost its novelty nor has the need for it disappeared, so it has moved out of the circle of the textbook originally intended for the student, to the circle of the general reader.