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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautiful book
I'm an artist and professor, and I've bought this book for myself and as a gift. It would be great if there were a few more contemporary portraits, but the book is what it is: a fantastic survey from antiquity to the 20th century. It has some paintings that one doesn't see too often, from painters that artists love and the public doesn't know very well, like...
Published on October 6, 2005 by floyd
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4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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I'm very sorry but I did not like this book at all and sent it back immidiately. I guess I expected a lot of visuals of many different artist's portraits includidng contemporaries. I think perhaps it was only my expectations of something else which caused me to find this book unsatisfactory.
Published on July 28, 2005 by Karen B. Mortensen
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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Beautiful book,
By floyd "art instructor" (urbana il) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Portraits: A History (Hardcover)
I'm an artist and professor, and I've bought this book for myself and as a gift. It would be great if there were a few more contemporary portraits, but the book is what it is: a fantastic survey from antiquity to the 20th century. It has some paintings that one doesn't see too often, from painters that artists love and the public doesn't know very well, like Fantin-Latour. Anyway, I think it's one of the best two portrait surveys I've ever seen. Andreas Beyer knows what he's doing.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Superb quality of illustrations,
By Laudanum (New York, NY, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Portraits: A History (Hardcover)
I own a good deal of art books and this one is one of the favourites of my collecton. The quality of full-page colour artwork is amazing.
The text is arguably idiosyncratic and misses much of the heraldic aspects of early portrature but still interesting to read. This book is heavy, the quality of paper is very nice and it makes a great gift.
4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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unsatisfied,
This review is from: Portraits: A History (Hardcover)
I'm very sorry but I did not like this book at all and sent it back immidiately. I guess I expected a lot of visuals of many different artist's portraits includidng contemporaries. I think perhaps it was only my expectations of something else which caused me to find this book unsatisfactory.
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Portraits: A History by Andreas Beyer (Hardcover - October 1, 2003)
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