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Biographies of seventeen of the world's greatest painters and sculptors.
Author : Anna Curtis Chandler
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 1929
Category : Artists
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Biographies of seventeen of the world's greatest painters and sculptors.
Author : Anna Curtis Chandler
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Artists
ISBN :
Author : Harriette Brower
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780364638163
Excerpt from Story-Lives of Master Musicians The preparation of this volume began with a period of delightful research work in a great musical library. As a honeyvbee flutters from flower to flower, culling sweetness from many blossoms, so the compiler of such stories as these must gather facts from many sources - from biography, letters, journals and musical history. Then, impressed with the personality and in dividual achievement of each composer, the author has endeavored to present his life story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Anna Curtis Chandler
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,38 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
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Author : Anna Curtis Chandler
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 29,48 MB
Release : 1953
Category :
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Author : Anna Curtis Chandler
Publisher :
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Kathrine Lois Scobey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 22,67 MB
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Great Musicians" by Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Ernst Hans Gombrich
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1995-09-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780785793427
The most famous and popular book on art ever published, this quintessential "introduction to art," now in its sixteenth edition, has been a worldwide bestseller for over four decades.
Author : Hilary Spurling
Publisher : Knopf Publishing Group
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 37,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0679434291
With unprecedented and unrestricted access to his family correspondence, and other new material in private archives, Spurling documents a lifetime of desperation and self-doubt exacerbated by Matisse's attempts to counteract the violence of the 20th century in paintings.
Author : Jason Kersten
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2009-06-11
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1101060166
Read Jason Kersten's posts on the Penguin Blog. The true story of a brilliant counterfeiter who "made" millions, outwitted the Secret Service, and was finally undone when he went in search of the one thing his forged money couldn't buy him: family. Art Williams spent his boyhood in a comfortable middle-class existence in 1970s Chicago, but his idyll was shattered when, in short order, his father abandoned the family, his bipolar mother lost her wits, and Williams found himself living in one of Chicago's worst housing projects. He took to crime almost immediately, starting with petty theft before graduating to robbing drug dealers. Eventually a man nicknamed "DaVinci" taught him the centuries-old art of counterfeiting. After a stint in jail, Williams emerged to discover that the Treasury Department had issued the most secure hundred-dollar bill ever created: the 1996 New Note. Williams spent months trying to defeat various security features before arriving at a bill so perfect that even law enforcement had difficulty distinguishing it from the real thing. Williams went on to print millions in counterfeit bills, selling them to criminal organizations and using them to fund cross-country spending sprees. Still unsatisfied, he went off in search of his long-lost father, setting in motion a chain of betrayals that would be his undoing. In The Art of Making Money, journalist Jason Kersten details how Williams painstakingly defeated the anti-forging features of the New Note, how Williams and his partner-in-crime wife converted fake bills into legitimate tender at shopping malls all over America, and how they stayed one step ahead of the Secret Service until trusting the wrong person brought them all down. A compulsively readable story of how having it all is never enough, The Art of Making Money is a stirring portrait of the rise and inevitable fall of a modern-day criminal mastermind. Watch a Video