Britain's Paintings
Britain's Paintings by Neil MacGregor is a 2002 Science & Technology book written by TED speaker Neil MacGregor, paired here with the talk they gave.
Britain has an extensive collection of international art, from Hockney to Titian. Arranged by theme as opposed to chronology, this book catalogues paintings in galleries, museums, houses and palaces in Britain. There is a chronology of artists with biographical notes.
The paired TED talk
2600 years of history in one object (2012), the TED talk by Neil MacGregor.