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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 — 469,553 ratings — published 1950
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 320 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 443,249 ratings — published 1972
Art Through the Ages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 198 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.81 — 45,794 ratings — published 1926
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,382 ratings — published 1550
Girl with a Pearl Earring (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 786,923 ratings — published 1999
History of Beauty (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.82 — 68,218 ratings — published 2004
History of Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 125 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.77 — 40,171 ratings — published 1962
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.85 — 39,380 ratings — published 2002
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh (Paperback)
by (shelved 122 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 112,970 ratings — published 1914
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,362 ratings — published 1999
The Story of Art Without Men (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,593 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 — 52,664 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 — 14,595 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 — 106,990 ratings — published 2023
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.83 — 93,591 ratings — published 1912
The Agony and the Ecstasy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 97,958 ratings — published 1961
Leonardo da Vinci (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 131,680 ratings — published 2017
The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 35,998 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 — 9,919 ratings — published 2012
The Art Book (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 168,378 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 — 7,771 ratings — published 1994
The Shock of the New (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.74 — 36,926 ratings — published 1980
Seven Days in the Art World (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.61 — 72,018 ratings — published 2008
The Secret Lives of Color (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 22,478 ratings — published 2016
Van Gogh: The Life (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.17 — 31,709 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 — 19,148 ratings — published 2007
Color: A Natural History of the Palette (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as art-history)
avg rating 3.79 — 73,304 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 — 14,638 ratings — published 2012
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane (Hardcover)
by (shelved 62 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.16 — 4,894 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 — 6,161 ratings — published 1960
Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 57,986 ratings — published 1988
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as art-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,296 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 — 8,661 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 — 75,056 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 4.00 — 28,281 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 — 50,471 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 — 5,165 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 — 64,561 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 — 95,634 ratings — published 2012
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