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ABOU T THE AU THOR Larissa Branin is a radio and print journalist, and the senior producer and host of Science Today , a University of California science program aired nationally on the CBS radio network. A native New Yorker, she studied journalism and ne art at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She now happily resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, Paul, and their three cats.

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P I C T U R E C R ED I T S 4-5, 30 Kunstsammlungen, Dresden Art Resource, New York 6, 8-9 Serovegni Chapel, Padua Art Resource, New York 7 National Archaeological Museum, Naples Art Resource, New York 8 (left), 16 (top), 28-29, 31 U”zi Gallery, Florence Art Resource, New York 10, 11, 14, 16-17, 53, (top), 55, 94, 96 National Gallery, London Art Resource, New York 12, 13 National Museum, Florence Art Resource, New York 15 San Zaccaria, Venice Art Resource, New York 18, 19, 35, 40-41, 50, 68-69, 70, 72-3, 74-75 Louvre, Paris Art Resource, New York 20, 62, 63 Art Resource, New York 21, 26 Alte Pinothek, Munich Art Resource, New York 22, 23, 24-25 Vatican, Rome Art Resource, New York 27 Musee Unterlinden, Colmar Art Resource, New York 32, 33, 43 Kunsthisorichces, Vienna Art Resource, New York 34 Pinacoteca Commmunale, Volterra Art Resource, New York 36 San Tome, Taledo Art Resource, New York 39 San Luigi del Francesci, Rome Art Resource, New York 42 Luxembourg Palace, Paris Art Resource, New York 46, 47, 58, 59, 60-61 Prado, Madrid Art Resource, New York 48 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Art Resource, New York 49, 51 Mauritshuis,še Hague Art Resource, New York 52, 64, 65, 120-121 Tate Gallery, London Art Resource, New York 54 (bottom) Westminster Abbey Art Resource, New York 56-57 National Gallery. Rome Art Resource, New York 66 Bonnard Pierre, Private Collection, France Art Resource, New York 67 Vuillard, Edward Private Collection, France Art Resource, New York 71, 83 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 76, 77, 78, 79, 84, 85, 88-89, 95 Musee d’Orsay, Paris Art Resource, New York 80 (top), 90, 91, 93, 102-103, 104-105, 106 Hermitage, St. Petersburg Art Resource, New York 80-81 Musee de l’Orange, Paris Art Resource, New York 82 Rodin Museum, Paris Art Resource, New York 86 Jeu de Paume, Paris Art Resource, New York 87, 109 Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Russia Art Resource, New York 92 National Galleries, Scotland Art Resource, New York 97, 111 Art Institute of Chicago Art Resource, New York 98 Oesterreichische Gallery, Vienna Art Resource, New York 99 National Gallery, Oslo, Art Resource, New York 100, 101 Musee Toulouse-Lautree, Albi Art Resource, New York 107 Kunsthalle, Basel Art Resource, New York 110 Museum of Modem Art, New York 112, 117 Musco šyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Art Resource, New York 113 Guggenheim Museum, New York Art Resource, New York 114 Musee des Beaux-Art, Grenoble Art Resource, 115 National Palace, Mexico City Art Resource, New York 116 National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Art Resource, New York 118 Musee Picasso, Paris Art Resource, New York 119 Private Collection, New York 122 Perls Gallery, New York Art Resource. New York 123 Cavalieri Holding Co. Geneva Art Resource, New York 124 Fundacion Dolores Olmedo, Mexico City Art Resource, New York 125 Gerson Gallery,še Denitive Collection, Marlborough Art Resource, New York 126, 127 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/ARS, New York Art Resource, New York 37 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 38, 44, 45 Galleria Borghese, Rome

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FRONT COVER I LLUSTRAT IONS (outside, clockwise from top left) Kanazawa Temple , Ando Hiroshige Private Collection of Pierre Bonnard, France Dream of a Summer Night , Marc Chagall Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble Fin d’arabesque , Edgar Degas, Musée d’Orsay, Paris Las Meninas , Diego Velázquez, Prado, Madrid FRONT COVER I LLUSTRAT IONS (inside, clockwise from top left) Self-Portrait , Vincent van Gogh, Musáe d’Orsay, Paris. e Lacemaker , Jan Vermeer, Louvre, Paris e Creation of Adam , Michelangelo,še Vatican, Rome BACK COVER I LLUSTRAT ION Wedding Portrait , Jan van Eyck, National Gallery, London Cover design by Mark Weinberg ISBN (series) 978-1-4222-3930-8 ISBN (ebook) 978-1-4222-7856-7 Cataloging-in-Publication Data on —le with the Library of Congress Copyright ©MMIX by New Line Books Limited. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2018 by Mason Crest, an imprint of National Highlights, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission from the publisher. Printed and bound in the United States of America. First printing 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 ISBN (hardback) 978-1-4222-3934-6

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