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A painter paints the appearance of things, not their objective correctness, in fact he creates new appearances of things.
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Leg...
by Jonathan Lopez (Goodreads author) 4 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 378
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Gardner's Art Throught the Ages
Gardner's Art Throught the Ages
by Fred S Kleiner 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 298
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The Power of Art
The Power of Art
by Simon Schama 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 297
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The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New
by Robert Hughes 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 293
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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 Generally, and on Appreciation
The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of L...
by Robert Henri, Margery Ryerson 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 265
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Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Barbara Burn 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 260
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Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh
Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh
by Vincent Van Gogh, Arnold Pomerans 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 249
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Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
Sister Wendy's Story of Painting
by Wendy Beckett 3 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 235
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
by Ingri D'Aulaire, Edgar Parin D'Aulaire 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 200
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade...
by Ross King 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 199
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by Ross King 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 196
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The Visual Arts: A History, Seventh Combined Edition
The Visual Arts: A History, Seventh Combined Ed...
by Hugh Honour, John Fleming 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 195
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Dora Maar - With and Without Picasso: A Biography
Dora Maar - With and Without Picasso: A Biography
by Mary Ann Caws 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 193
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Dreaming with His Eyes Open / A life of Diego Rivera
Dreaming with His Eyes Open / A life of Diego R...
by Patrick Marnham 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 193
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The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 191
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A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906
A Life of Picasso: The Prodigy, 1881-1906
by John Richardson 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 189
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine T...
by Martin Gayford 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 186
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A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916
A Life of Picasso: The Cubist Rebel, 1907-1916
by John Richardson 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 186
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A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
by John Richardson 2 people voted »
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score: 184
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Life with Picasso
Life with Picasso
by Francoise Gilot 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 180
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Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel
by Stefano Zuffi 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 170
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A Guide to the Louvre
A Guide to the Louvre
by Anne Sefrioui 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 164
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Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
Noa Noa: The Tahiti Journal of Paul Gauguin
by Paul Gauguin 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 155
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Isms
Isms
by Stephen Little 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 140
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25
Gardner's Art Through the Ages
Gardner's Art Through the Ages
by Fred S. Kleiner 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 138
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Frick Collection: Handbook of Paintings
Frick Collection: Handbook of Paintings
by Scala Publishers 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 126
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27
William Blake
William Blake
by Robin Hamlyn, Michael R. Phillips 2 people voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 109
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Manifestations of Shiva
Manifestations of Shiva
by Stella Kramrisch 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 100
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28
The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic Versus Classic Art
The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic Versus Classic...
by Kenneth Clark 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 100
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Cameraworks
Cameraworks
by David Hockney (Photographer), Lawrence Wescher (Contributor) 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 100
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Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century Icon
Guernica: The Biography of a Twentieth-Century ...
by Gijs van Hensbergen 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 99
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The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
The Vertigo Years: Europe 1900-1914
by Philipp Blom 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 99
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The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sc...
by Donald Friedman 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 99
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How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origins of Human Creativity
How Art Made the World: A Journey to the Origin...
by Nigel Spivey 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 98
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankw...
by E.L. Konigsburg 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 98
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Modern Painting: The Impressionists--And the Avant-Garde of the Twentieth Century
Modern Painting: The Impressionists--And the Av...
by Francesca Castria, Stefano Zuffi 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 98
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34
George Tooker
George Tooker
by Thomas H. Garver 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 98
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38
Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
by Sabine Rewald, Ian Buruma 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 97
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38
Vietnam Reflexes and Reflections
Vietnam Reflexes and Reflections
by Eve Sinaiko 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 97
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38
Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, and the Forging of History
Mysteries of the Snake Goddess: Art, Desire, an...
by Kenneth D. S. Lapatin 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 97
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38
National Gallery of Art: Washington
National Gallery of Art: Washington
by John Walker 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 97
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Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Tim...
by Leonard Shlain 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 97
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Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World
Living Color: A Writer Paints Her World
by Natalie Goldberg 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 97
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Egyptian Art
Egyptian Art
by Cyril Aldred 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 96
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Michelangelo
Michelangelo
by Ludwig Goldscheider 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 96
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Rackstraw Downes
Rackstraw Downes
by Sanford Schwartz, Robert Storr 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 96
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Art History's History
Art History's History
by Vernon Hyde Minor 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 96
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Eastman Johnson: Painting America
Eastman Johnson: Painting America
by Teresa A. Carbone, Patricia Hills 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 96
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49
Pablo Picasso: The Last Years
Pablo Picasso: The Last Years
by Mariano Miguel Montanes 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 95
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49
The First World War in Posters, from the Imperial War Museum, London
The First World War in Posters, from the Imperi...
by Joseph Darracott 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 95
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49
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock
by Kirk Varnedoe 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 95
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49
Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals
Diego Rivera: The Detroit Industry Murals
by Linda Bank Downs 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 95
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53
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
by Bill Watterson 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 94
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Sculpture: Processes and Principles
Sculpture: Processes and Principles
by Rudolf Wittkower 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 94
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
by Betty Edwards 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 94
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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
by Vincent Van Gogh 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 94
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art...
by Robert Hughes 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 93
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Life in the Studio
Life in the Studio
by HALE NANCY 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 93
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Treasures of Ancient Rome
Treasures of Ancient Rome
by P Clayton 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 92
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Readings in Art History, Volume 2
Readings in Art History, Volume 2
by Harold Spencer 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 92
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Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
by Diane Waldman 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 92
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Readings in Art History, Volume 1
Readings in Art History, Volume 1
by Harold Spencer 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 91
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How to Talk to Children About Art
How to Talk to Children About Art
by FranCoise Barbe-Gall 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 90
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The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Collections
The Lure of the Exotic: Gauguin in New York Col...
by Colta Ives, Charlotte Hale 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 89
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M
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by Peter Robb 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 88
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Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of...
by Rebecca Rabinow 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 87
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Pablo Picasso And Marie-Therese Walter: Between Classicism And Surrealism
Pablo Picasso And Marie-Therese Walter: Between...
by Pablo Picasso 1 person voted »
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score: 85
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British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of Modern Life 1914-1939
British Prints from the Machine Age: Rhythms of...
by Stephen Coppel 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 84
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Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole Europe's Great Art - America and Her Allies Recovered It
Rescuing Da Vinci: Hitler and the Nazis Stole E...
by Robert M. Edsel 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 83
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Picasso: Life with Dora Maar
Picasso: Life with Dora Maar
by Anne Baldassari 1 person voted »
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score: 82
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71
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
by Alessandro Cecchi, Martin Kemp 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 81
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Eroticism and Art
Eroticism and Art
by Alyce Mahon 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 79
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Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Transformation
Picasso and Portraiture: Representation and Tra...
by Pierre Daix, Brigitte Leal 1 person voted »
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score: 77
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Vienna 1900: Art and Culture
Vienna 1900: Art and Culture
by Christian Brandstätter, Jennifer Taylor-Gaida (Translator) 1 person voted »
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score: 74
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A Survival Guide for Art History Students
A Survival Guide for Art History Students
by Christina Maranci 1 person voted »
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score: 73
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Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain
Hokusai: The Man Who Painted a Mountain
by Deborah Kogan Ray 1 person voted »
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score: 72
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Leonardo's Horse H
Leonardo's Horse H
by Jean Fritz 1 person voted »
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score: 70
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Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion
Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Ar...
by Al Seckel 1 person voted »
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score: 69
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Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist Caught Between East and West
Glory in a Line: A Life of Foujita--the Artist ...
by Phyllis Birnbaum 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 68
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Description de L' Egypte
Description de L' Egypte
by Kaiser Napoleon I. Bonaparte, Gilles Neret 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 67
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Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft
Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft
by Simon Houpt 1 person voted »
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score: 66
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Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici
Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times...
by Miles J. Unger 1 person voted »
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score: 65
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Goya
Goya
by Robert Hughes 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 63
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84
Bernini
Bernini
by Howard Hibbard 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 62
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85
Takashi Murakami
Takashi Murakami
by Dick Hebdige, Midori Matsui 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 59
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Paintings That Changed the World
Paintings That Changed the World
by Klaus Reichold, Bernhard Graf 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 58
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87
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renai...
by Gary M. Radke 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 57
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88
Pablo Picasso: Ceramics
Pablo Picasso: Ceramics
by Waanders Publishers 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 56
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89
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the World's First Artists
The Cave Painters: Probing the Mysteries of the...
by Gregory Curtis 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 55
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90
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and the Looting of the Ancient World
Stealing History: Tomb Raiders, Smugglers, and ...
by Roger Atwood 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 54
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91
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World
Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of t...
by Sharon Waxman 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 53
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Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teachers Never Told You About Master Painter and Sculptors
Secret Lives of Great Artists: What Your Teache...
by Elizabeth Lunday 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 52
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93
Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
Mexican Muralists: Orozco, Rivera, Siqueiros
by Desmond Rochfort 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 51
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94
Art History: The Best Test Prep for the AP with CDROM
Art History: The Best Test Prep for the AP with...
by Frank Chmiel, Larry S. Krieger 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 50
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95
Propaganda The Art of Persuasion: World War II
Propaganda The Art of Persuasion: World War II
by Anthony Rhodes 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 49
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96
Travels in the Interiors of North America 1832-1834
Travels in the Interiors of North America 1832-...
by Maximilian Wied 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 48
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97
The Art and Spirit of Paris
The Art and Spirit of Paris
by Venceslas Kruta 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 47
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1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
by Stephen Farthing 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 46
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African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection
African Masks: From the Barbier-Mueller Collection
by Iris Hahner, Maria Kecskesi 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 44
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100
Discovering Art History
Discovering Art History
by Gerald F. Brommer 1 person voted »
didn't like itit was okliked itreally liked itit was amazing
score: 43
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message 1: by Monica (new)
Jul 01, 2009 10:13PM

347123 I'm not familiar with the majority of these books or art historians. It's a nice ideal, Alex. I wish I knew more about them so I could share my opinions. How do you read other people's comments?




message 2: by Alex E. Pajares (last edited Jul 03, 2009 07:35AM) (new)
Jul 03, 2009 07:33AM

1683970 Just click on the book I suppose. That is if there any comments. Have a great holiday weekend!


message 3: by Monica (new)
Jul 03, 2009 07:47AM

347123 You too. I have many art history books I'd love to share with this group! Hi Susanna, Sandra, Hotavio, Leslie and Thomas!!!


message 4: by Alex E. Pajares (new)
Jul 03, 2009 08:40AM

1683970 LOL! SHARE,SHARE, SHARE!


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