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Art History Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 400 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 452,866 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 423,764 ratings — published 1972
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 193 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,517 ratings — published 1926
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 32,813 ratings — published 1550
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 772,543 ratings — published 1999
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 66,255 ratings — published 2004
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.84 — 38,641 ratings — published 2002
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 108,850 ratings — published 1914
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 27,968 ratings — published 1999
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 115 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,708 ratings — published 1962
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,000 ratings — published 2009
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,519 ratings — published 2006
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 91,451 ratings — published 1912
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 124,405 ratings — published 2017
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 94,566 ratings — published 1961
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,593 ratings — published 2005
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 85 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,885 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 3.96 — 3,008 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 — 9,690 ratings — published 2012
The Art Thief (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 80,574 ratings — published 2023
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 165,310 ratings — published 1997
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 20,146 ratings — published 2016
Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,658 ratings — published
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,710 ratings — published 1994
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,114 ratings — published 1980
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 70,126 ratings — published 2008
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
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.80 — 71,910 ratings — published 2003
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,698 ratings — published 2006
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,203 ratings — published 2011
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,023 ratings — published 2007
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,158 ratings — published 2012
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,740 ratings — published 2011
History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,210 ratings — published 1969
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,066 ratings — published 1960
The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 19,852 ratings — published 2001
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,601 ratings — published 1968
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.11 — 56,051 ratings — published 1988
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,634 ratings — published 2009
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (Annotated Series) (Volume 3)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,477 ratings — published 1992
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,819 ratings — published 1971
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 418 ratings — published 1998
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 49,000 ratings — published 1995
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,622 ratings — published 1980
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 62,285 ratings — published 2010
Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,321 ratings — published 2003
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,040 ratings — published 2008
Leonardo and the Last Supper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,998 ratings — published 2012
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,710 ratings — published 1983
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,040 ratings — published 1936
“A shame that these images had become iconic, a tune we were all tired of humming.”
― The Swan Thieves
― The Swan Thieves
“Ambivalence and contradiction energize nearly every figure Michaelangelo carved, from the adolescent Madonna of the Stairs onward...But the four allegories atop the sarcophagi raise them to a symphonic crescendo. Each is a battleground of conflicting emotions and motives, in which will and paralysis battle for supremacy.”
― Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
― Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara
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