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Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Ways of Seeing (Paperback) by John Berger (shelved 315 times as art-history) avg rating 3.94 — 439,960 ratings — published 1972 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Art Through the Ages (Hardcover) by Fred S. Kleiner (shelved 195 times as art-history) avg rating 3.81 — 45,531 ratings — published 1926 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Lives of the Artists (Paperback) by Giorgio Vasari (shelved 166 times as art-history) avg rating 3.78 — 33,272 ratings — published 1550 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback) by Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author) (shelved 146 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 784,392 ratings — published 1999 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Beauty (Paperback) by Umberto Eco (Editor) (shelved 144 times as art-history) avg rating 3.82 — 67,888 ratings — published 2004 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Art (Hardcover) by H.W. Janson (shelved 123 times as art-history) avg rating 3.77 — 39,872 ratings — published 1962 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback) by Ross King (shelved 122 times as art-history) avg rating 3.85 — 39,260 ratings — published 2002 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback) by Ross King (shelved 121 times as art-history) avg rating 3.91 — 28,288 ratings — published 1999 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback) by Vincent van Gogh (shelved 120 times as art-history) avg rating 4.08 — 112,238 ratings — published 1914 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover) by Katy Hessel (shelved 112 times as art-history) avg rating 4.29 — 4,460 ratings — published 2022 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover) by Robert M. Edsel (shelved 108 times as art-history) avg rating 3.80 — 52,575 ratings — published 2009 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback) by Ross King (shelved 108 times as art-history) avg rating 3.85 — 14,577 ratings — published 2006 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover) by Michael Finkel (Goodreads Author) (shelved 103 times as art-history) avg rating 3.92 — 101,839 ratings — published 2023 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback) by Wassily Kandinsky (shelved 103 times as art-history) avg rating 3.83 — 93,158 ratings — published 1912 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback) by Irving Stone (shelved 95 times as art-history) avg rating 4.09 — 97,437 ratings — published 1961 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover) by Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author) (shelved 94 times as art-history) avg rating 4.18 — 130,331 ratings — published 2017 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback) by Jonathan Harr (Goodreads Author) (shelved 94 times as art-history) avg rating 3.87 — 35,926 ratings — published 2005 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback) by Michael Baxandall (shelved 89 times as art-history) avg rating 3.95 — 3,036 ratings — published 1972 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook) by Anne-Marie O'Connor (Goodreads Author) (shelved 87 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 9,892 ratings — published 2012 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Art Book (Paperback) by Phaidon Press (shelved 76 times as art-history) avg rating 3.86 — 167,801 ratings — published 1997 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Shock of the New (Paperback) by Robert Hughes (shelved 74 times as art-history) avg rating 3.74 — 36,818 ratings — published 1980 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback) by Lynn H. Nicholas (shelved 73 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 7,768 ratings — published 1994 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Women, Art, and Society (World of Art) by Whitney Chadwick (shelved 72 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 2,676 ratings — published 1990 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback) by Sarah Thornton (shelved 71 times as art-history) avg rating 3.61 — 71,651 ratings — published 2008 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover) by Kassia St. Clair (shelved 69 times as art-history) avg rating 4.00 — 22,054 ratings — published 2016 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition) by Steven Naifeh (shelved 68 times as art-history) avg rating 4.17 — 31,526 ratings — published 2011 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Power of Art (Hardcover) by Simon Schama (shelved 67 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 17,775 ratings — published 2006 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback) by Charles Harrison (Editor) (shelved 67 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 10,231 ratings — published 2002 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars On Ugliness (Hardcover) by Umberto Eco (shelved 67 times as art-history) avg rating 3.88 — 19,131 ratings — published 2007 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover) by Will Gompertz (shelved 65 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 14,312 ratings — published 2012 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback) by Victoria Finlay (shelved 65 times as art-history) avg rating 3.79 — 73,010 ratings — published 2003 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover) by Andrew Graham-Dixon (shelved 61 times as art-history) avg rating 4.16 — 4,870 ratings — published 2011 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback) by E.H. Gombrich (shelved 61 times as art-history) avg rating 4.04 — 6,143 ratings — published 1960 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback) by Susan Vreeland (shelved 61 times as art-history) avg rating 3.91 — 20,045 ratings — published 2001 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback) by Ingo F. Walther (shelved 59 times as art-history) avg rating 4.10 — 57,624 ratings — published 1988 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback) by Linda Nochlin (shelved 59 times as art-history) avg rating 4.32 — 3,214 ratings — published 1971 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition (Hardcover) by Frederick Hartt (shelved 59 times as art-history) avg rating 4.22 — 1,211 ratings — published 1969 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars History of Modern Art (Paperback) by H. Harvard Arnason (shelved 58 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 8,656 ratings — published 1968 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover) by Laney Salisbury (shelved 58 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 6,695 ratings — published 2009 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback) by Donald Preziosi (Editor) (shelved 57 times as art-history) avg rating 3.97 — 420 ratings — published 1998 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback) by Hayden Herrera (shelved 55 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 74,580 ratings — published 1983 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook) by Patrick Bringley (Goodreads Author) (shelved 55 times as art-history) avg rating 4.01 — 27,314 ratings — published 2023 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover) by Frida Kahlo (shelved 55 times as art-history) avg rating 3.89 — 50,159 ratings — published 1995 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback) by Walter Benjamin (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 4.08 — 24,734 ratings — published 1936 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover) by Edmund de Waal (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.96 — 64,070 ratings — published 2010 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover) by Roland Barthes (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.99 — 78,252 ratings — published 1980 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback) by Deborah Davis (Goodreads Author) (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.93 — 5,398 ratings — published 2003 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover) by Edward Dolnick (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 3.88 — 5,151 ratings — published 2008 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (Annotated Series) (Volume 3) by Carol Strickland (Goodreads Author) (shelved 54 times as art-history) avg rating 4.06 — 4,495 ratings — published 1992 Want to Read saving… Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars

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