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Art History Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 403 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 457,032 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 286 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 428,713 ratings — published 1972
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,787 ratings — published 1926
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,899 ratings — published 1550
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 775,493 ratings — published 1999
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 138 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,752 ratings — published 2004
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 38,879 ratings — published 2002
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 109,824 ratings — published 1914
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,052 ratings — published 1999
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 39,025 ratings — published 1962
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,143 ratings — published 2009
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,532 ratings — published 2006
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 95,521 ratings — published 1961
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,963 ratings — published 1912
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 125,977 ratings — published 2017
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,757 ratings — published 2005
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 84,944 ratings — published 2023
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,009 ratings — published 2022
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 85 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,015 ratings — published 1972
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook)
by (shelved 84 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,733 ratings — published 2012
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 166,021 ratings — published 1997
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,741 ratings — published 1994
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 20,660 ratings — published 2016
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,595 ratings — published 2008
Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,660 ratings — published
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,323 ratings — published 1980
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,225 ratings — published 2003
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,233 ratings — published 2002
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,727 ratings — published 2006
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,067 ratings — published 2007
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,708 ratings — published 2011
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.03 — 13,506 ratings — published 2012
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,782 ratings — published 2011
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,101 ratings — published 1960
The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,905 ratings — published 2001
History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,211 ratings — published 1969
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,624 ratings — published 1968
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,650 ratings — published 2009
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,479 ratings — published 1988
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,911 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 419 ratings — published 1998
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (Annotated Series) (Volume 3)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,478 ratings — published 1992
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 62,808 ratings — published 2010
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 49,320 ratings — published 1995
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,065 ratings — published 2008
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 77,094 ratings — published 1980
Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,345 ratings — published 2003
Leonardo and the Last Supper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,005 ratings — published 2012
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,294 ratings — published 1983
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,225 ratings — published 1936
“The modern tendency towards increasing specialization in all branches of research and scholarship has discouraged comparative studies of the arts; and what we seldom do we generally distrust. But our distrust of analogies was not shared by the sixteenth century, which inherited from antiquity a habit of drawing parallels as a matter of course.”
― Mannerism
― Mannerism
“Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.”
― The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History
― The Reach of Modern Art: A Concise History
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