English | 2022 | ISBN: 0711257078 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 18.65 MB
What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.
Beginning with Botticelli's The Birth of Venus , we travel through time and a range of styles and stories – including theft, scandal, artistic reputation, politics and power – to Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans , challenging the idea of what a masterpiece can be, and arriving in the twenty-first century with Amy Sherald's portrait of Michelle Obama , a modern-day masterpiece still to be tested by time.
