Here are vivid stories of twenty painters who dreamed, struggled, and suffered so that they might give expression to their divine gifts: Giotto, Michelangelo, Raphael, da Vinci, Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, El Greco, Diego Velázquez, William Hogarth, Reynolds, Joseph Turner, Goya, Jean Baptiste Corot, Jean François Millet, Van Gogh, Whistler, Renoir, Cézanne, and Winslow Homer.