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Holmes on the range mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Description
In San Francisco in 1893 in search of a detective job, Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother Otto, a.k.a. "Big Red," devotees of the Sherlock Holmes method of "detectifying," pursue an old acquaintance who takes a shot at them in Chinatown.
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From Michelangelo's experiments with the composition of pigments made by monks in Florence, to Niccol ̤Machiavelli's defense of Florence against Julius's attacking forces bent on restoring the Medicis to power, Ross King presents a magnificent tapestry of day-to-day life on the ingenious Sistine scaffolding and outside in the upheaval of early-sixtenth-century Italy, as well as uncommon insight into the intersection of art and history.
64) Claude Monet
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A biography of one of the most influential artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who captured the essence of light and color on his canvases.
65) Rembrandt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the seventeenth-century Dutchman who was one of the greatest artists of all time.
Author
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
Looking at music through the lives of great composers and their environment, from churches and cathedrals that produced the familiar sound of Gregorian chant, to Johann Sebastian Bach, the family man composing for the glory of God, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child prodigy, genius and prankster who wrote some of the finest music ever yet was buried in a pauper's grave.
70) Da Vinci
Author
Pub. Date
[1989]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Traces the life of the Renaissance artist and analyses some of his paintings.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
How well do you know Jesus? I think about this often, and I always come to the same realization. I don't know Jesus anywhere near as well as I would like to know him. The desire is there, but life gets in the way. There are times when I seem to be making great progress, and other times when I wonder if I know him at all. But I always arrive back at the same inspiring and haunting idea: If there is one person that we should each get to know in a deeply...
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
A sumptuous, visual guided tour of 66 of the world's greatest paintings, each examined in unrivaled depth. Ranging from works by Zhang Zeduan, a 12th-century Chinese master, to modern masterpieces by Rothko and Anselm Kiefer, this book provides an excellent visual introduction to the history of art in chronological order. Alongside a magnificent gallery of iconic paintings with more than 700 full-color photographs, the story behind each painting is...
76) Big Eyes
Pub. Date
c2015
Description
Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of the paintings.
77) The rule of four
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
"Princeton. Good Friday, 1999. On the eve of graduation, two students are a hairsbreadth from solving the mysteries of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, a Renaissance text that has baffled scholars for centuries. Famous for its hypnotic power over those who study it, the five-hundred-year-old Hypnerotomachia may finally reveal its secrets - to Tom Sullivan, whose father was obsessed with the book, and Paul Harris, whose future depends on it. As the deadline...
78) Color in art
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book explains what color is, what it means, and why artists choose certain colors.
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