The Agony and the Ecstasy
By: Irving Stone , None
4.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special …
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1. The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
By: Edmund de Waal
3.95
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Ephrussis were a grand banking family, as rich and respected as the Rothschilds, who “burned li… read more
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- art
- historical
"The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"There are things in this world that the children hear, but whose sounds oscillate below an adult's sense of pitch."-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
"Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world were and you stuck to them?"-Edmund de Waal, The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss
2. Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
By: Gilles Néret
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's or… read more
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- art
- art history
"Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anat…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, a…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise of two simple and fundamental themes: flowers and women. These themes off…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
3. Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
By: Andrew Loomis
4.06
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Artist Andrew Loomis writes this book for those who have graduated from the fundamentals of drawing… read more
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- art
- classics
"Fill in the shapes with the right tones and the form takes care of itself."-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"Take from the rest of us all that you can assimilate, that can become a part of you, but never still the small voice inside your head that whispers to you, "I like it better my way."-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained…"-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
"As a student I thought there was a formula of some kind that I would get hold of somewhere, and thereby become and artist. There is a formula, but it has not been in books. It is really plain old cou…"-Andrew Loomis, Figure Drawing for All It's Worth
4. Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo
By: Stephanie Storey
4.37
Format: None pages,
From 1501--1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. L… read more
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- italy
- art
- art history
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
5. Ways of Seeing
By: John Berger
3.24
Format: 0 pages, Paperback
John Berger's Classic Text on Art John Berger's Ways of Seeingis one of the most stimulating and th… read more
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- art
- art history
6. Leonardo's Notebooks
By: Leonardo da Vinci , H. Anna Suh
4.31
Format: None pages, Hardcover
An all-new, jewel-like, reader-friendly format gives new life to this relaunch of an international … read more
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- art
- classics
7. The Art Forger
By: B.A. Shapiro
4.20
Format: 445 pages, Hardcover
On March 18, 1990, thirteen works of art worth today over $500 million were stolen from the Isabell… read more
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- art
- fiction
- historical fiction
8. Pompeii
By: Robert Harris
3.56
Format: None pages, Paperback
With his trademark elegance and intelligence Robert Harris recreates a world on the brink of disast… read more
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- italy
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
9. The Agony and the Ecstasy
By: Irving Stone , None
4.40
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Celebrating the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's David, New American Library releases a special … read more
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- italy
- art
- art history
- classics
- historical
- fiction
- historical fiction
10. The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
By: Vincent van Gogh , Mark Roskill , Arnold J. Pomerans , Ronald de Leeuw
3.73
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters,The Letters of Vincent va… read more
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11. Dali: The Paintings
By: Gilles Néret , Robert Descharnes
3.50
Format: 140 pages,
This publication presents the entire painted oeuvre of Salvador Dali (1904-1989). After many years … read more
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12. The Lives of the Artists
By: Peter Bondanella , Giorgio Vasari , None
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's coll… read more
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13. The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice
By: Laura Morelli
4.75
Format: 140 pages,
Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life? When the Black Death comes kn… read more
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14. History of Art
By: H.W. Janson , Anthony F. Janson
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
For 1000s of art lovers both amateur & professional, esthetic life began with Janson, as his Histor… read more
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15. An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers
By: Danny Gregory
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
Find Insight and Inspiration for Your Creative Life An artist's journal is packed with sketches and… read more
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16. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
By: Ross King
4.17
Format: 510 pages, Paperback
In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelange… read more
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17. PostSecret: Extraordinary Confessions from Ordinary Lives
By: Frank Warren
3.76
Format: 85 pages, Hardcover
New York TimesBestseller The project that captured a nation's imagination. The instructions were si… read more
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18. The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
By: Robert Henri , None , None
1.75
Format: 134 pages,
In this book are the essential beliefs and theories of a great teacher and American artist, Robert … read more
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19. Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
By: Yvonne Korshak
4.29
Format: 557 pages, Kindle Edition
STEP ASIDE, ANTONY AND PERICLES AND ASPASIA —THE LOVE STORY THAT SHAPED HISTORY Two lovers cres… read more
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- fiction
- historical fiction
"Temples are for the gods,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"Do you know the song Violet Crowned Athens?"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"The softness, warmth and weight of her breast filled his palm. “I’ve imagined this for weeks,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
"But Phidias was better than most men since he made beautiful sculptures. He was even making one of her—well, he called it “Athena,"-Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
20. The Secret Lives of Color
By: Kassia St. Clair
4.12
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more
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- art history
- historical
"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color
21. Van Gogh: The Life
By: Steven Naifeh
4.18
Format: 976 pages, Kindle Edition
Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, who galvanized readers with their Pulitzer Prize–winning bio… read more
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- art
- art history
- historical
"Me pregunto por qué los brillantes puntitos del cielo no nos resultan tan asequibles como los puntos negros que llenan el mapa de Francia. Cogemos un tren para ir de Tarascón a Ruán, pero para llegar…"-Steven Naifeh, Van Gogh: The Life
