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The Museum of Mysteries: Art's Best-Kept Secrets
Baucheron, Elea, Routex, Diane
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Description for The Museum of Mysteries: Art's Best-Kept Secrets
Hardcover. Art and mystery collide in this fascinating look at the secrets behind some of the world's most important masterpieces and their creators. Num Pages: 176 pages, 200 colour. BIC Classification: AC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 266 x 212 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1066.
Who was the model for Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring? How were the Nazca Lines- the giant drawings scrawled across Peru's desert coast- created? Why is Botticelli's The Birth of Venus an ingenious example of mathematic computation? Travelling across centuries and continents, this collection of forty enigmatic artworks and artists examines secrets that have confounded experts and amateurs alike. Presented in beautiful colour spreads, each work or artist is profiled in an absorbing and accessible commentary that draws on the latest research. While some of these mysteries have been solved, many others continue to stump even the most learned ... Read more
Who was the model for Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring? How were the Nazca Lines- the giant drawings scrawled across Peru's desert coast- created? Why is Botticelli's The Birth of Venus an ingenious example of mathematic computation? Travelling across centuries and continents, this collection of forty enigmatic artworks and artists examines secrets that have confounded experts and amateurs alike. Presented in beautiful colour spreads, each work or artist is profiled in an absorbing and accessible commentary that draws on the latest research. While some of these mysteries have been solved, many others continue to stump even the most learned ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Prestel
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791349206
SKU
V9783791349206
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About Baucheron, Elea, Routex, Diane
Elea Baucheron is an art historian who works as a researcher and writer in Paris. Diane Routex is a writer and publisher based in Paris.
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