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    <![CDATA[Great Artists: The Lives of 50 Painters Explored Through Their Work]]>
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    <![CDATA[A benchmark for intelligent, engaging nonfiction, this superbly designed book is written and illustrated with a lushness that takes the breath away. Robert Cumming is chairman of Christie's education department: he knows his art history.  But he also knows how to seduce you with the sheer beauty of the material, and the well-placed pointer to telling details.  Fifty double-page spreads cover artists from da Vinci and Rubens to Monet, Picasso, and Pollock. Each spread is a concentrated master-class on the life, the style, and the influence. Check out the luminous full-color reproductions of &quot;Bacchus&quot; and &quot;The Conversion of St. Paul,&quot; then read the opening sentence above them--&quot;One of the few great artists to have a criminal record, Caravaggio was violent, loutish, and frequently under arrest&quot;--and see if you can resist the temptation to read on. <em>Great Artists</em> is a dream of a book that adults and their older children will fight over. (Ages 12 to adult) <em>--Richard Farr</em>]]>
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