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These short, vivid biographies offer quick insights, big ideas, and timeless inspiration. Color, form, and vision: explore the lives of the world's most celebrated painters, sculptors, and creators. From Da Vinci to Frida Kahlo, Michelangelo to Dürer, de Goya to Pollock, Turner to Lichtenstein, Basquiat to Banksy – short stories that open new ways of seeing.

In the tradition of Geoffrey Wolf’s The Duke of Deception and Jeanette Walls’ The Glass Castle, John-Ivan Palmer’s Master of Deception takes listeners on the road with his magician father and his mother, the lovely assistant, as they travel from Elks Lodges to County Fairs, performing alongside contortionists, ventriloquists, and every manner of screwball act that passed for variety entertainment before television drove us all indoors and away from one another.

With outrageous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo Da Vinci to Caravaggio to Edward Hopper, Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international art. You'll learn that Michelangelo's body odor was so bad, his assistants couldn't stand working for him; that Vincent van Gogh sometimes ate paint directly from the tube; and Georgia O'Keeffe loved to paint in the nude. This is one art history lesson you'll never forget!

Este notable artista alemán (1471 - 1528) fue el pincel más famoso del Renacimiento alemán, y reconocido mundialmente gracias a sus pinturas, dibujos, grabados y escritos teóricos sobre arte, que ejercieron una profunda influencia en los artistas del siglo XVI de su propio país y de los Países Bajos.