Effie in Venice

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Effie in Venice

by Mary Lutyens

Recommendations from our site

Our most recommended books

The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art by Joseph Leo Koerner

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari

The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers by T J Clark

The Andy Warhol Diaries by Pat Hackett

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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner

Ways of Seeing
by John Berger

The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari

The Reformation
by Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers
by T J Clark

The Andy Warhol Diaries
by Pat Hackett