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A red cover with a simple, flat illustration of a yellow easel holding a white square. The title and author is inside the square in yellow and red.

Art

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‘Great art has dreadful manners…

…The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab you in a headlock and proceed in short order to re-arrange your sense of reality.’

In inimitable style, the great historian and master storyteller Simon Schama makes an irresistible case for the power of art and its necessary place in our lives, examining art through the prism of the troubling life and works of Italian master painter, and murderer, Caravaggio.

Selected from The Power of Art.

 

Author: Simon Schama

Format: Paperback

Size: 11 x 17.8 cm, 112 pages

Publisher: Vintage Classics

ISBN: 9781784875671

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