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Art History Books
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The Story of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 422 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 469,603 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 443,323 ratings — published 1972
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,800 ratings — published 1926
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,380 ratings — published 1550
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 786,972 ratings — published 1999
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 68,222 ratings — published 2004
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,177 ratings — published 1962
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,383 ratings — published 2002
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,975 ratings — published 1914
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,361 ratings — published 1999
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,596 ratings — published 2022
The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 52,668 ratings — published 2009
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 14,594 ratings — published 2006
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.92 — 107,114 ratings — published 2023
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,592 ratings — published 1912
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 97,962 ratings — published 1961
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 131,717 ratings — published 2017
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,999 ratings — published 2005
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.95 — 3,039 ratings — published 1972
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (ebook)
by (shelved 87 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 9,917 ratings — published 2012
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,380 ratings — published 1997
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,769 ratings — published 1994
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,923 ratings — published 1980
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,021 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,487 ratings — published 2016
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.18 — 31,713 ratings — published 2011
The Power of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 17,780 ratings — published 2006
Women, Art, and Society (World of Art)
by (shelved 68 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,680 ratings — published 1990
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,147 ratings — published 2007
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,310 ratings — published 2003
Art in Theory, 1900–2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,232 ratings — published 2002
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 14,639 ratings — published 2012
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,893 ratings — published 2011
Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,160 ratings — published 1960
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,998 ratings — published 1988
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,300 ratings — published 1971
The Passion of Artemisia (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 20,092 ratings — published 2001
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,660 ratings — published 1968
Provenance: How a Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,710 ratings — published 2009
History of Italian Renaissance Art, Third Edition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,210 ratings — published 1969
The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 419 ratings — published 1998
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.02 — 75,066 ratings — published 1983
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.01 — 28,309 ratings — published 2023
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,878 ratings — published 1936
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.89 — 50,480 ratings — published 1995
Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,405 ratings — published 2003
The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 5,164 ratings — published 2008
The Hare With Amber Eyes: A Family's Century of Art and Loss (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.96 — 64,574 ratings — published 2010
The Annotated Mona Lisa, Third Edition: A Crash Course in Art History from Prehistoric to the Present (Annotated Series) (Volume 3)
by (shelved 54 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,499 ratings — published 1992
The Art Forger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 95,649 ratings — published 2012
“Artists create records of transitory moments, appearing to stop their clocks. They help us believe that some things aren’t transitory at all but rather remain beautiful, true, majestic, sad, or joyful over many lifetimes—and here is the proof, painted in pole, carved in marble, stitched into quilts.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
“The first step in any encounter with art is to do nothing, to just watch, giving your eye a chance to absorb all that's there. We shouldn't think "This is good," or "This is bad," or "This is a Baroque picture which means X, Y, Z." Ideally, for the first minute we shouldn't think at all. Art needs time to perform its work on us.”
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
― All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
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