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1) The judgment of Paris: the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism

Author

King, Ross

Pub. Date

[2006]

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD

2) Art: over 2,500 works from cave to contemporary

Pub. Date

2008.

Edition

First American edition.

Language

English

Description

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Within each time period, provides examples of significant works in painting, sculpture, drawing and other media. Highlights themes that were important at various times such as nudes, landscape, still life, and love. Includes brief biographies of some artists and a "closer look" in depth for the most significant works.

3) Mad enchantment: Claude Monet and the painting of the water lilies

Author

King, Ross

Pub. Date

2016.

Language

English

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Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brush into a peaceful world of harmonious nature. Monet himself intended them to provide "an asylum of peaceful meditation." Yet, as Ross King reveals in his magisterial chronicle of both artist and masterpiece,...

4) The shortest history of Italy: 3,000 years from the Romans to the Renaissance to a modern republic--a retelling for our times

Author

King, Ross

Series

Shortest history

Pub. Date

2024.

Language

English

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"From a foremost author of historic Italy, this is a concise, star-studded retelling of the nation's past, from Caesar and Augustus to da Vinci and Michelangelo, tracing the story of a country with prodigious global influence"--