Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
H. W. Janson
![H. W. Janson](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: October 4, 1913
Died: September 30, 1982 (aged 68)
Bio: Horst Waldemar Janson, who published as H. W. Janson, was a Russian-born German-American professor of art history best known for his History of Art, which was first published in 1962 and has since sold more than four million copies in fifteen languages.
Known for:
- A Short History of Art (1962)
- History of Art for Young People (1971)
- Janson's History of Art 7th Ed
- 19th Century Art
- 19th-century Sculpture