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Author
Publisher
H.N. Abrams
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
5th ed. rev.
Physical Desc
2 v. (993 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A comprehensive, color-illustrated history of art in four sections--the ancient world, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the modern world--that describes visual art's major movements, milestones, and genres, and briefly covers music and theater. Also includes primary source sections, time lines, a glossary, a discography, a selected bibliography, and a list of art and architecture Web sites.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 22
Language
English
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Description
"Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 23
Language
English
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"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West."--
Publisher
The Newsweek/Daily Beast Company LLC
Edition
Apr 19 2024
Language
English
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Description
Newsweek magazine has a long-standing tradition of providing readers with the most updated information on the most pressing issues affecting our nation and world today. Newsweek is able to fill the gaps when a story has passed and is able to come up with insight or synthesis that connects the cracking, confusing digitals dots in today's fast paced news cycle.
Author
Series
Forge ahead volume no. 2
Publisher
Shelburne Museum
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
200 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Raincoast Books
Pub. Date
2003, �1997
Edition
5th ed.
Physical Desc
54 pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A poem and paintings inspired by the stories and words of wisdom of the Elders. The poem conveys a message of concern from aboriginal leaders of the past and a plea for us to respect our environment.
Author
Language
English
Description
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
9) Homeport
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
456 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"The Maine air is bitterly cold when Dr. Miranda Jones arrives at the family home after a busy lecture tour. But her blood turns to ice when she suddenly feels the knife against her throat."--BOOK JACKET. "The unseen assailant steals her bags, slashes her tires, and disappears. Deeply shaken, Miranda is determined to put the experience behind her. Distraction comes when she is summoned to Italy - to verify the authenticity of a Renaissance bronze...
10) Painted ladies
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
Author
Series
Language
English
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Kim Lord is an avant-garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is composed of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women--the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others--and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2007, c1997
Edition
1st Bookshelf ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to the museum, Katie climbs into five Impressionist paintings and has wonderful adventures. Includes information about Impressionism, the paintings shown, and their artists.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"The true story of the world's most prolific art thief--a spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Woods. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Sťphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly ten years--in museums and cathedrals all over Europe--Breitwieser,...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Ocean's Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art, and the complexity of the Chinese American identity"--
15) To another place
Author
Publisher
Springfield Print Integrated
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Contains reproductions of all 50 paintings in the artist's exhibition for the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, an essay by BMAC Chief Curator, Mara Williams, and a chronology of Emily Mason's career.
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 14
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
475 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gabriel Allon, art restorer and occasional spy for Israel, must play a dangerous game of high stakes international intrigue as he searches for a stolen masterpiece by Caravaggio.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Who gets to leave a legacy? 1985. Anita de Monte, a rising star in the art world, is found dead in New York City; her tragic death is the talk of the town. Until it isn't. By 1998 Anita's name has been all but forgotten - certainly by the time Raquel, a third-year art history student is preparing her final thesis. On College Hill, surrounded by progeny of film producers, C-Suite executives, and international art-dealers, most of whom float through...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
With rhyming text, follow three kids as they take an imaginative tour of Asian art through examples found in the Chong-Moon Lee Center for Asian Art and Culture at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. As the kids wander from exhibit to exhibit, they picture themselves in another time and place as they explore textiles, ceramics, statues, armor, and more. Along the way, they learn a little bit about the cultures, beliefs, and daily life that resulted...
19) Nothing ventured
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a lawyer like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from university, William begins a career that will define his life: from his early months on the beat under the watchful eye of his first mentor, Constable Fred Yates, to his first high-stakes case...
20) Greek art
Author
Series
Publisher
Thames and Hudson
Pub. Date
1985
Language
English
Description
"This authoritative and readable guide to the history of Greek art is a considerably enlarged and rewritten version of a work that has served hundreds of thousands in many languages since the early 1960s. As the author says, 'This edition is different in that it takes into account new finds as well as new ideas and attitudes to the subject.... I have attempted here to place Greek art back into Greece and away from galleries and art books, to try to...
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