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Thursday, December 18, 2008

Art History Reading Challenge


As I am wrapping up 2008 and preparing for 2009, I've been finding some fun reading challenges around the blog-o-sphere. This one especially stood out for me since I LOVE art history and have a few un-read books at home that would fit this challenge. All you have to do is read six books that has art history as a topic. (As you can see I have way too many books I want to read.) You can join along at this website:

Amanda's Picks

1. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King

2. Lust for Life - Irving Stone

3. Luncheon of the Boating Party - Susan Vreeland

4. The Painting - Nina Schuyler

5. With Violets - Elizabeth Robards

6. Van Gogh's Bad Cafe - Frederic Tuten (Finished February 20, 2009)

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7. Blindspot - Jane Kamensky (not sure how much art is in this one)

8. The Art Thief - Noah Charney

9. The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century - Edward Dolnick

10. Old Masters, New World: America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures - Cynthia Saltzman

11. The Flanders Panel - Arturo Perez-Reverte

12. The Painter of Battles - Arturo Perez-Reverte

13. Cezanne's Quarry - Barbara Pope

14. Leonardo's Swans - Karen Essex (Finished July 12, 2009)

15. Stealing Athena - Karen Essex

16. Painter from Shanghai - Jennifer Epstein

17. The Forgery of Venus - Michael Gruber

18. The Passion of Artemisia - Susan Vreeland

19. The Girl in Hyacinth Blue - Susan Vreeland

20. The Sidewalk Artist - Gina Buonaguro

21. Portrait of an Unknown Woman - Vanora Bennett

22. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper - Harriet Scott Chessman

23. The Illuminator - Brenda Rickman Vantrease

24. A Rare and Curious Gift - Pauline Holdstock

25. Sunflowers - Sheramy Bundrick (Finished October 31, 2009)


Past Art History Book Reviews:

1. The Blood of Flowers - Anita Amirrezvani

2. The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant

3. The Madonnas of Leningrad - Debra Dean

4 comments:

  1. I've never heard of the Ross King book. I'll have to check it out! I've got the other two on my "potentials" list for this Challenge also. Great choices!

    Lezlie

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  2. I'm trying to resist this challenge, and seeing so many people joining and coming up with great lists for it is not helping :P

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  3. Ooooh, this is a challenge I want to consider. Thanks for the head's up!

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  4. That's a wonderful list of books! There are so many on there I'd love to read... I'm looking forward to your reviews.

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