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    Famous works of art--and how they got that way / John B. Nici.
    by Nici, John B.
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  • Masterpiece, Artistic -- Public opinion.
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  • Art and society.
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    9781442249547 (hardback : alk. paper)
    1442249544 (hardback : alk. paper)
    9781442249554 (ebook)
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    xxxii, 281 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
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    The Great Sphinx : beyond human understanding -- The Tomb of Tutankhamun : politics, ethnic pride, hornets, a dead canary, and a curse -- The Parthenon sculptures : Lord Elgin and how Greece lost its marbles -- "Apollo Belvedere" : the rise and fall of the "Apollo Belvedere" -- "Nike of Samothrace" : the victory of the staircase -- "The Birth of Venus" by Botticelli : nothing is forever, not even neglect -- "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci : you never know what a smile can do -- "Sistine Madonna" by Raphael : the most perfect picture in the world -- "The Burial of Count Orgaz" by El Greco : a touch of madness goes a long way -- "Aristotle Contemplating a Bust of Homer" by Rembrandt : fame available for a price -- "Washington Crossing the Delaware" by Emanuel Leutze : or perhaps, "Washington Crossing the Rhine" -- "Luncheon on the Grass" by Édouard Manet : success through scandal -- "The Thinker" by Auguste Rodin : fame has its consequences -- "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh : lost in a starry night -- "The Scream" by Edvard Munch : scream, indeed -- "American Gothic" by Grant Wood : all-American gothic -- "Migrant Mother" by Dorothea Lange : the power of the press -- "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso : travels with "Guernica" -- "Campbell's Soup" by Andy Warhol : Mmm Mmm Good -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Lin : The triumph of abstraction.
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