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Project Gutenberg
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English
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The Book of Art for Young People is a work depicting the history of art. Author Agnes Ethel Conway presents an engaging overview reaching from the 13th century all the way to the 19th century. We are treated with descriptions of greats such as Donatello, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Van Gogh and many others that are still vividly remembered today!
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance. With An Index To Their Works" by Bernard Berenson. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for...
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2021.
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English
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In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit - a cold case squad - to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. In Geneva, millionaire art collector Miles Faulkner, convicted of forgery and theft, was pronounced dead two months ago. So why is his unscrupulous lawyer still representing a dead client? And who is the mysterious man his widow is planning to marry? On...
46) The goldfinch
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"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
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""For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central...
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In 1937, Lisette Roux and her husband, Andre ḿove from Paris to Provence to care for Andre'́s grandfather, Pascal. Pascal was a pigment salesman and frame maker, and a friend of Pissarro and Ceźanne who traded frames for paintings. When war breaks out, Andre h́ides Pascal's art collection to keep the paintings out of the Nazi's reach before he himself goes off to the front. Then, as the Germans come closer and set up the Vichy government, Lisette...
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Project Gutenberg
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English
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"Rewards and Fairies" is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The book consists of a series of short stories set in historical times with a linking contemporary narrative. Dan and Una are two children, living in the Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own home Bateman's. They have encountered Puck and he magically conjures up real and fictional individuals from Sussex's past to tell the children some aspect of its history...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 9
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English
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Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the painting's wealthy owner.
55) The appraisal
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Helena Marsh novels volume 1
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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When wealthy octogenarian Geza Marton hires art expert Helena Marsh to buy back his family's Titian painting, Helena flies to Budapest to close what she expects will be a reasonably simple sale. But nothing is ever simple in this beautiful, flawed city where corruption abounds. Helena discovers that there are multiple bidders for the painting, including some dangerous Slavs. Soon there are also dead bodies, and a complicated history that leads her...
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Scout Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Welcome to SoHo at the onset of the eighties: a gritty, not-yet-gentrified playground for artists and writers looking to make it in the big city. Among them: James Bennett, a synesthetic art critic for The New York Times whose unlikely condition enables him to describe art in profound, magical ways, and Raul Engales, an exiled Argentinian painter running from his past and the Dirty War that has enveloped his country. As the two men ascend in the downtown...
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 8
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English
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Seventh-grade sleuth Sammy Keyes investigates mysterious happenings at a local art gallery.
59) Horse
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"Kentucky, 1850. An enslaved groom named Jarret and a bay foal forge a bond of understanding that will carry the horse to record-setting victories across the South. When the nation erupts in civil war, an itinerant young artist who has made his name on paintings of the racehorse takes up arms for the Union. On a perilous night, he reunites with the stallion and his groom, very far from the glamor of any racetrack.
New York City, 1954. Martha Jackson,...
60) The Mona Lisa vanishes: a legendary painter, a shocking heist, and the birth of a global celebrity
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"On a hot August day in Paris, just over a century ago, a desperate guard burst into the office of the director of the Louvre and shouted, La Joconde, c'est partie! The Mona Lisa, she's gone! No one knew who was behind the heist. Was it an international gang of thieves? Was it an art-hungry American millionaire? Was it the young Spanish painter Pablo Picasso, who was about to remake the very art of painting? Travel back to an extraordinary period...
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