_ Through more than 1,000 artworks accompanied by detailed commentary, the book exhaustively analyses the evolution of watercolour in art history, from the German Renaissance to the 18th-century English school and the work of more contemporary artists such as Kandinsky, Nolde, or Schiele_ The use of pigments mixed with water provides the artist with a great creative freedom, allowing them to cover big portions of the canvas with just a few brushstrokes_ Artists as renowned as Turner, Whistler, Constable, Sargent, Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Klee, and Schiele made use of watercolours during their pictorial careers.