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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Pierre Auguste Renoir	Tom Parsons	A biography of the French painter and sculptor whose works seem full of joy, not only because of their subject matter, but because of the artist's use of light and color.	OL3280135W
Claude & Camille	Stephanie Cowell	Sometimes he dreamt he held her; that he would turn in bed and she would be there. But she was gone and he was old. Nearly seventy. Only cool paint met his fingers. "Ma tres chere . . ." Darkness sta…	OL3296286W
Saturn	Jacek Dehnel	269 pages : 20 cm	OL33448184W
Auguste Rodin	Rainer Maria Rilke	With ninety-six illustrations. The first edition was published by Insel Verlag in 1913. The selection of images follows the edition from 1949. The two-part work, created in 1903 [read: 1902] and 1…	OL3800617W
Painting	Shirley Glubok	A collection of biographical sketches of European and American painters from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries.	OL3910531W
The Demon Lover (Chivers Sound Library)	Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert	When Kate Collison, to help her ailing father, completes his portrait of the powerful Baron de Centeville, her only thought is to be a dutiful daughter. But when the Baron presents her to Parisian so…	OL3931405W
Naughty Paris	Jina Bacarr	After being jilted by her fiance, Autumn Maguire uses her nonrefundable honeymoon tickets to explore Paris on her own. Eager to experience the true bohemian lifestyle, she answers an ad for an artist…	OL3957221W
Mrs. Merryweather's Letter (Tales from Fern Hollow)	RH Value Publishing,John Patience	Mrs. Merriweather writes a letter to her friend, Mrs. Willowbank, which takes many detours on its journey. Despite being blown around all day and night by the wind, Mrs. Merryweather's letter manages…	OL3974941W
David Alfaro Siqueiros	Rodríguez, Antonio	Los ideales y creencias que inspiraron al pintor mexicano.	OL3982839W
Art and the crisis of marriage	Vivien Green Fryd	"Art and the Crisis of Marriage provides both a penetrating reappraisal of the interconnections between Georgia O'Keeffe's and Edward Hopper's lives and works, as well as a vivid portrait of how new …	OL4121512W
Leonardo Da Vinci	Ibi Lepscky	Describes the childhood of the famous artist and inventor, whose early interests in engineering, architecture, natural science, and painting were encouraged by his father.	OL4310762W
Paradise	Irma Stern	112 p. : 29 cm	OL4352162W
Paul Cézanne	Connolly, Sean	Introduces the life and work of Paul Cezanne, discussing his early years, life in Paris, and development as a painter.	OL443539W
Vincent van Gogh	Vincent Buranelli	A biography of the Dutch painter who was a strange and difficult child, a tortured adult, and whose genius for expressing his artistic vision was not appreciated until after his death.	OL4480792W
Malvasia's Life of the Carracci	Malvasia, Carlo Cesare conte	xv, 395 p. : 28 cm	OL474171W
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec	Ernest Lloyd Raboff	A brief biographical sketch of the nineteenth-century artist accompanies examples and discussions of his works.	OL4970539W
Some followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo	Everett Fahy	Art book documenting and describing and cataloguing artists from Domenico Ghirlandaio's Florentine workshop	OL5256696W
Winslow Homer	Mary A. Judge	Ever the naturalist, Homer was a most "American" artist.	OL5256737W
The forgery of Venus	Gruber, Michael,Michael Gruber	Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough—artists whose works sell for mill…	OL5717331W
Monet	Roberto Carvalho de Magalhães	Discusses the style and technique of the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet.	OL6034317W