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Great Painters (Chambers Arts Library)

Spanning six centuries and 73 painters, this title examines what makes a painter one of the "greats". Their life and career, style and artistic approach are all described and their work is placed within the development of art history. Painters treated include such famous names as Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Poussin, Van Gogh, matisse, Picasso Kandinsky and Francis Bacon.