Best Art and Art History Books

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The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh 4.09 avg rating β€” 107,623 ratings
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The Story of Art
The Story of Art 3.96 avg rating β€” 448,902 ratings
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The Shock of the New
The Shock of the New 3.74 avg rating β€” 35,754 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
The Agony and the Ecstasy 4.09 avg rating β€” 93,728 ratings
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The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
by: Ross King
3.85 avg rating β€” 14,510 ratings
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The Power of Art
The Power of Art 3.93 avg rating β€” 17,680 ratings
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren
The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren 3.77 avg rating β€” 8,542 ratings
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Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel 4.21 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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Art Through the Ages
Art Through the Ages 3.83 avg rating β€” 43,953 ratings
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Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing 3.93 avg rating β€” 418,812 ratings
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The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain 3.87 avg rating β€” 372,522 ratings
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Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo 4.01 avg rating β€” 71,950 ratings
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A Life of Picasso, Vol. 1: The Prodigy, 1881-1906
A Life of Picasso, Vol. 1: The Prodigy, 1881-1906 4.28 avg rating β€” 1,993 ratings
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The Story of Painting
The Story of Painting 3.97 avg rating β€” 4,218 ratings
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The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles 3.97 avg rating β€” 6,779 ratings
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The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War 3.93 avg rating β€” 7,697 ratings
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Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
by: Ross King
3.91 avg rating β€” 27,849 ratings
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Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists
Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and Artists 4.04 avg rating β€” 1,125 ratings
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The Art Spirit
The Art Spirit 3.90 avg rating β€” 25,331 ratings
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by: Ross King
3.84 avg rating β€” 38,393 ratings
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Isms: Understanding Art
Isms: Understanding Art 3.92 avg rating β€” 797 ratings
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Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye 4.08 avg rating β€” 3,946 ratings
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A Natural History of the Senses
A Natural History of the Senses 4.15 avg rating β€” 7,852 ratings
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Art History's History
Art History's History 3.78 avg rating β€” 213 ratings
25.
Life with Picasso
Life with Picasso 4.09 avg rating β€” 5,237 ratings
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Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation 4.04 avg rating β€” 6,024 ratings
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Seven Days in the Art World
Seven Days in the Art World 3.62 avg rating β€” 69,389 ratings
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece 3.87 avg rating β€” 35,393 ratings
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The Visual Arts: A History
The Visual Arts: A History 3.93 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
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A Guide to the Louvre
A Guide to the Louvre
by: Various
4.03 avg rating β€” 206 ratings
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Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works
Hieronymus Bosch: Complete Works 4.57 avg rating β€” 764 ratings
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Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)
Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series) 4.20 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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Frick Collection: Handbook of Paintings
Frick Collection: Handbook of Paintings
by: SCALA
4.46 avg rating β€” 48 ratings
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History of Beauty
History of Beauty 3.83 avg rating β€” 65,524 ratings
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What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell 4.08 avg rating β€” 12,575 ratings
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One Hundred Flowers
One Hundred Flowers 4.34 avg rating β€” 731 ratings
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Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art 3.85 avg rating β€” 1,055 ratings
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Goya
Goya 4.11 avg rating β€” 7,956 ratings
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About Looking
About Looking 4.09 avg rating β€” 9,052 ratings
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The Painted Word
The Painted Word
by: Tom Wolfe
3.85 avg rating β€” 6,920 ratings
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Just Looking: Essays on Art
Just Looking: Essays on Art 4.03 avg rating β€” 170 ratings
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William Blake
William Blake 4.40 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture
Michelangelo: Paintings, Sculpture, Architecture 4.32 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors
Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors 4.27 avg rating β€” 2,922 ratings
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings
Leonardo da Vinci: The Complete Paintings and Drawings 4.30 avg rating β€” 11,117 ratings
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The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History 3.80 avg rating β€” 51,853 ratings
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Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings 4.12 avg rating β€” 55,310 ratings
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The Success and Failure of Picasso
The Success and Failure of Picasso 4.01 avg rating β€” 652 ratings
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The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic versus Classic Art
The Romantic Rebellion: Romantic versus Classic Art 4.14 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
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Bernini
Bernini 4.11 avg rating β€” 238 ratings
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Louvre: 400 Masterpieces
Louvre: 400 Masterpieces 4.22 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die
1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die 4.14 avg rating β€” 977 ratings
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Stone Tears (Favole #1)
Stone Tears (Favole #1) 4.15 avg rating β€” 720 ratings
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Atkinson Grimshaw
Atkinson Grimshaw 4.24 avg rating β€” 49 ratings
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Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock 4.27 avg rating β€” 483 ratings
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Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing
Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing 4.18 avg rating β€” 411 ratings
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D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths
D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths 4.41 avg rating β€” 19,795 ratings
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National Gallery of Art: Washington
National Gallery of Art: Washington 4.41 avg rating β€” 97 ratings
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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles
Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles 3.75 avg rating β€” 456 ratings
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Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative 3.96 avg rating β€” 324,445 ratings
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait 3.90 avg rating β€” 48,378 ratings
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The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers
The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Writers 4.30 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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Negative Space
Negative Space 4.23 avg rating β€” 1,047 ratings
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The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern
The Annotated Mona Lisa: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to Post-Modern 4.06 avg rating β€” 4,476 ratings
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Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light
Art and Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time, and Light 4.15 avg rating β€” 1,582 ratings
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Egyptian Art
Egyptian Art 3.81 avg rating β€” 205 ratings
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Gothic: Dark Glamour
Gothic: Dark Glamour 4.08 avg rating β€” 154 ratings
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Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian
Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Giotto, Masaccio, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian 4.09 avg rating β€” 237 ratings
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History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition
History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,206 ratings
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Sculpture: Processes and Principles
Sculpture: Processes and Principles 3.91 avg rating β€” 143 ratings
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Techniques of the Great Masters of Art
Techniques of the Great Masters of Art 4.27 avg rating β€” 56 ratings
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Art as Therapy
Art as Therapy 4.08 avg rating β€” 4,486 ratings
73.
Impressionism (Midi Series)
Impressionism (Midi Series) 4.35 avg rating β€” 345 ratings
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Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight
Atkinson Grimshaw: Painter of Moonlight 4.45 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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An Object of Beauty
An Object of Beauty 3.77 avg rating β€” 111,837 ratings
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Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Gothic Imagination
Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Gothic Imagination 4.32 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist
Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist 4.02 avg rating β€” 467 ratings
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Picasso: Creator And Destroyer
Picasso: Creator And Destroyer 3.83 avg rating β€” 733 ratings
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Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum 4.23 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
80.
Magritte: Attempting the Impossible
Magritte: Attempting the Impossible 4.50 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
81.
Dreaming With His Eyes Open / A Life Of Diego Rivera
Dreaming With His Eyes Open / A Life Of Diego Rivera 3.81 avg rating β€” 101 ratings
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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer [Deckle Edge]
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer [Deckle Edge] 3.97 avg rating β€” 9,653 ratings
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Van Gogh in Arles
Van Gogh in Arles 4.31 avg rating β€” 108 ratings
84.
Passages in Modern Sculpture
Passages in Modern Sculpture 4.13 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
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The Last Flowers of Manet
The Last Flowers of Manet 4.33 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
86.
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Hiroshige: One Hundred Famous Views of Edo 4.60 avg rating β€” 627 ratings
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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution
The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution 3.82 avg rating β€” 1,927 ratings
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Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II
Saving Mona Lisa: The Battle to Protect the Louvre and Its Treasures During World War II 4.06 avg rating β€” 532 ratings
87.
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style 3.96 avg rating β€” 3,002 ratings
87.
Francisco de Goya: el tiempo tambiΓ©n pinta
Francisco de Goya: el tiempo tambiΓ©n pinta 4.86 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
91.
Despite CeauΘ™escu: A Collection of Romanian Art
Despite CeauΘ™escu: A Collection of Romanian Art it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
92.
Piranesi: The Etchings
Piranesi: The Etchings 4.20 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
93.
Leonardo and the Last Supper
Leonardo and the Last Supper
by: Ross King
3.93 avg rating β€” 2,983 ratings
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Ernst Fuchs
Ernst Fuchs 4.86 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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Noa Noa
Noa Noa 3.48 avg rating β€” 1,084 ratings
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History of Modern Art
History of Modern Art 4.01 avg rating β€” 8,584 ratings
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What Great Paintings Say (Taschen 25 Anniversary)
What Great Paintings Say (Taschen 25 Anniversary) 4.40 avg rating β€” 527 ratings
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Van Gogh's Inner Struggle: Life, Work and Mental Illness
Van Gogh's Inner Struggle: Life, Work and Mental Illness really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 189 ratings
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Lives of the Artists Volume I
Lives of the Artists Volume I 4.08 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
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Dora Maar With & Without Picasso /anglais
Dora Maar With & Without Picasso /anglais 3.83 avg rating β€” 29 ratings
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