Manguel's "A History of Reading"

Art used by Alberto Manguel for illustrating his book "A History of Reading".

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  The young Aristotle by Charles Degeorge
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  St Dominic by Fra Angelico
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  Paolo and Francesca by Anselm Feuerbach
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  Valentina Balbiani's tomb by Germain Pilon
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  A portrait of St Ambrose in the church that bears his name
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  Beatus Rhenanus, book collector and editor
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  Dante, mural by Domenico Michelino
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  Young woman with a miniature book by Van der Helst
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  Simone Martini's Annunciation
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  Jesus tearing pages from the Old Testament by Rogier van der Weyden
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  Dürer's cover of Brant's Ship of Fools