12 best-selling history books like Diego Velazquez by Norbert Wolf

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Diego Velazquez

By: Norbert Wolf

4.09

Format: None pages, Broché

Diego Velázquez, encensé pour sa manière de fondre réalisme et atmosphère, ainsi que pour la formid…

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Cover of Hiroshige: 1797 - 1858 by Hiroshige Utagawa, Adele Schlombs

1. Hiroshige: 1797 - 1858

By: Hiroshige Utagawa , Adele Schlombs

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Master of Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last gr… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The woodblock art of pre-modern Japan -- above all Hiroshige's landscape prints -- revolutionized European painting and made a major contribution in the last two decades of the 19th century to the de…"

-Hiroshige Utagawa, Hiroshige: 1797 - 1858

Cover of Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form by Michael Bockemühl, Michael Claridge

2. Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form

By: Michael Bockemühl , Michael Claridge

4.01

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The mystery of the revealed A mirror of the artistic and intellectual developments of the 17th cen… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Jackson Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling, None

3. Jackson Pollock

By: Leonhard Emmerling , None

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A tragic icon of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) took influences from Picasso a… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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4. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

By: André Maurois , Jorge Luis Borges , James E. Irby , Donald A. Yates

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Although his work has been restricted to the short story, the essay, and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges … read more

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5. Mondrian

By: None , None

3.84

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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6. Manet

By: Gilles Néret

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Violently criticized during his lifetime for his supposedly provocative paintings, French painter E… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. Michelangelo

By: Gilles Néret

3.93

Format: 233 pages, Paperback

During the Renaissance, the great artists, from Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli to Michelangelo an… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851: The World of Light and Colour

By: Michael Bockemühl

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

As a blind person would see the world if the gift of sight suddenly returned - so might one describ… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality

By: Ingo F. Walther

4.26

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Van Gogh, who took up a variety of professions before becoming an artist, was a solitary, despairin… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Vermeer, 1632-1675: Veiled Emotions

By: Norbert Schneider

3.62

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction

11. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

By: Siddhartha Mukherjee

4.26

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

The Emperor of All Maladies is a magnificent, profoundly humane "biography" of cancer--from its fir… read more

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12. The Romance of Tristan, The Tale of Tristan's Madness

By: Béroul , None

3.71

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

This edition contains perhaps the earliest and most elemental version of the tragic legend of Trist… read more

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13. The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

By: Brian Greene

4.09

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Brian Greene, one of the world's leading string theorists, peels away the layers of mystery surroun… read more

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  • nonfiction
"...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"...quantum mechanics—the physics of our world—requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"…The wonders of life and the universe are mere reflections of microscopic particles engaged in a pointless dance fully choreographed by the laws of physics."

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

"La cosmología tiene la capacidad de llamar nuestra atención a un nivel profundo y visceral, porque comprender cómo comenzó todo es, al menos para algunos, el punto en el que podemos encontrarnos más …"

-Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

14. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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15. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919: A Dream of Harmony

By: None

3.66

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is now universally acclaimed: museums pride themselves on his pai… read more

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16. Pre-Raphaelites

By: Norbert Wolf , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sometimes considered the first avant-garde art movement,the Pre-Raphaelites rejected their era's do… read more

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17. The Complete Paintings and Drawings

By: Leonardo da Vinci , Frank Zöllner , None

3.20

Format: None pages, Hardcover

TASCHEN's 25th anniversary - Special edition! Special bestseller price Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519… read more

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18. Cézanne

By: Ulrike Becks-Malorny

3.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

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19. Caravaggio, 1571-1610

By: None

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Notorious bad boy of Italian Baroque painting, Caravaggio (1571-1610) is finally getting the recogn… read more

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20. Sandro Botticelli 1444/45 - 1510

By: Barbara Deimling

4.06

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

Forgotten immediately after his death, Sandro Botticelli (1444 or 45-1510) was rediscovered in the … read more

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21. Homage to Catalonia

By: George Orwell , Lionel Trilling

4.00

Format: 592 pages, Paperback

In 1936 Orwell went to Spain to report on the Civil War and instead joined the fight against the Fa… read more

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22. Jan van Eyck

By: Till-Holger Borchert

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

Van Eyck left an indelible impression on Renaissance art and paved the way for future realist paint… read more

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23. Flights

By: Olga Tokarczuk

3.76

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the incomparably original Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, Flights interweaves reflections on tra… read more

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"The truth is terrible: describing is destroying."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"Drawing is never reproducing - in order to see, you have to know how to look, and you have to know what you’re looking at."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

"I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature."

-Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

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24. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

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25. Impressionism

By: Karin H. Grimme

4.22

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

On April 15th, 1874, in the Parisian studio of photographer Nadar, was the opening of the first gro… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Monet, Claude (1840-1926) by Christoph Heinrich

26. Monet, Claude (1840-1926)

By: Christoph Heinrich

4.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

La serie de arte de Taschen son libros de magníficas reproducciones y textos inteligentes con preci… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • art design
  • nonfiction
Cover of Goya (Taschen Basic Art) by Rose-Marie Hagen

27. Goya (Taschen Basic Art)

By: Rose-Marie Hagen

4.01

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

An informative introduction to one of Spain's most renowned artists. Goya (1746-1828) was the most … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • spain
  • nonfiction
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28. Egiptul antic și civilizațiile mesopotamiene

By: Irene Cordón i Solá-Sagales

3.83

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Acum 5000 de ani, oamenii care trăiau în regiunea supranumită Cornul abundenței au pus bazele a cee… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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29. Rubens

By: Gilles Néret

4.16

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Extravagance and sensuality Renowned among his contemporaries as one of the foremost paint… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction
  • history
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30. Diego Velazquez

By: Norbert Wolf

4.09

Format: None pages, Broché

Diego Velázquez, encensé pour sa manière de fondre réalisme et atmosphère, ainsi que pour la formid… read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • biography
  • history
  • spain
  • art design
  • nonfiction
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31. Rococo

By: Eva Gesine Baur

3.79

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The dramatic style of the 18th century Emerging out of Baroque as a more relaxed style, Rococo was … read more

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  • art
  • art history
  • nonfiction

18 Best nonfiction books like Diego Velazquez by Norbert Wolf

Transform Your Habits

Hiroshige: 1797 - 1858

Hiroshige Utagawa , Adele Schlombs

4.16

Transform Your Habits

Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form

Michael Bockemühl , Michael Claridge

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Jackson Pollock

Leonhard Emmerling , None

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Mondrian

None , None

3.84

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15 Top nonfiction books like Goya (Taschen Basic Art) by Rose-Marie Hagen

Transform Your Habits

Rembrandt 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form

Michael Bockemühl , Michael Claridge

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918

Gilles Néret

4.18

Transform Your Habits

The Early History of Rome (The History of Rome, #1-5)

Livy , Aubrey de Sélincourt , Robert Maxwell Ogilvie , None

2.50

Transform Your Habits

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Carlos Fuentes , Frida Kahlo , Sarah M. Lowe

4.81

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