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Lives of the Great Artists

Hardcover • 2008 • English

Lives of the Great Artists

By Charlie Ayres

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About the book

An original and delightful approach: imagined visits to artists' studios bring art vividly to life for children. Through the pages of this book, young readers step into a famous artist's studio in medieval Germany, Renaissance Italy, or nineteenth-century France. As the making of a particular work is described, the child smells the paint, hears the chisel chipping into marble, or experiences the wonders of a working printing press. The twenty artists are featured in easy-to-follow chronologi...Show more

Paintings and painting
Individual artists, art monographs
Human figures depicted in art

Book details

ISBN

9780500238530

Publisher

WW Norton

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Lives of the Great Artists

Format

Hardcover

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