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By Sandro Botticelli

Those richly illustrated paintings books hide a number of centuries of serious artists and their masterworks. From Rubens to Dali, each one artist's lifestyles and occasions, affects, legacy, and elegance are explored extensive. each one publication analyzes a specific portray with reference to the heritage surrounding it, the strategies used to create it, and the hidden information that make up the full, supplying an intensive examine each one artist's occupation. incorporated is a bibliography, a chronological analyzing of precept works, a short lifestyles historical past, and listings of public collections that includes each one artist.

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