Introducing young readers to twenty of the greatest artists of all time, this eye-opening book includes a careful selection of masterpieces, exciting life stories, lavish reproductions, extensive side-features and useful references.

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• Fascinating texts give a vivid present-tense account of each artist at work.

• Engaging feature boxes such as:
‘Why Don’t You?’ which suggest a practical art projects
‘Did You Know?’ gives interesting snippets of life stories
‘Want To See More?’ provides helpful website addresses

• Extended captions bring the pictures to life, pointing out interesting details or telling memorable stories.

• Complete with chronologies, lists of where works can be seen, a glossary of unfamiliar words and detailed information about the pictures, this book is a great fact-filled resource for a school project or gallery visit – an ideal gift.

The artists brought to life are:
Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Raphael, Titian, Hans Holbein the Younger, El Greco, Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Diego Velázquez, Rembrandt, Francisco de Goya, Jacques-Louis David, J. M. W. Turner, Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh.

Charlie Ayres studied at the Courtauld Institute of Art and Sotheby’s Institute in London, England. Under the name Charlotte Mullins, she edited Art Review and V&A Magazine. She has written widely on art, and has also appeared on television and radio.

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