Invites the reader to search for tiny details hidden in famous works of art, providing information about each painting, the techniques used to create them, and how the artists and movements helped art to develop through the ages. Answer key features lift-up flaps.

Originally published in France in 2000 by Éditions du Seuil/Le Funambule under the title L'art à la loupe : de l'antiquité à nos jours.