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Caravaggio by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Category: Art | Series: Colour Library
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was a boldly original painter who led a short and violent life. The powerful realism of his figures upset many of his contemporaries, and their power to shock remains undiminished. This book, providing a biography, presents all his most famous masterpieces, ...Show more
Joan of Arc: Maid, Myth and History by Timothy Wilson-Smith
Category: History
Joan of Arc, born in Domremy in France in 1412, began to hear voices when she was thirteen and, believing they were directives from God, followed them - to the French court, to battle to wrest France from the English in the Hundred Years War, and to defeat and capture. She was put on trial for heresy an ...Show more
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