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Artists Who Changed History

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MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS - FACE TO FACE This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated artists tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works. Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each artist, alongside photographs of their homes and studios, and personal artefacts, Artists... Read More
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Artists Who Changed History

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MEET THE WORLD'S GREATEST ARTISTS - FACE TO FACE

This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated artists tells the fascinating stories of their lives and works.

Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each artist, alongside photographs of their homes and studios, and personal artefacts, Artists Who Changed History offers a unique window into the personalities of each individual, and their key artistic ideas, themes, and techniques.

Introduced with a stunning portrait of each artist, biographical entries trace the friendships, loves, and rivalries that inspired and influenced them, reveal the key social and artistic factors that shaped their work, and explore their influence on the artists who followed them. Entries explore the vision and approach of each artist, and the creative development of their work during their lifetime, setting it in context and conveying a powerful sense of the place and the period of history in which they lived.

Covering a broad range of artists from the Middle Ages to the present day, Artists Who Changed History provides a compelling, entertaining, and accessible glimpse of the lives and loves of each one.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241632895

Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 May 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: DK

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Andrew Graham Dixon

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 241.0mm

Height: 287.0mm

Weight: 1894g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the world's most prominent commentators on the visual arts. Highly knowledgeable, and with a gift for communicating complex ideas clearly and imaginatively, he is the author of Caravaggio- A Life Sacred and Profane, the best-selling biography of the Renaissance artist Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. He is also the writer and presenter of several BBC art documentaries and the co-presenter of five series on the art and food of Italy alongside the chef Georgio Locatelli.

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