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The Lives of the Artists
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The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
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Ways of Seeing
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The Book of the Courtier
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The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
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David Tennant and the Gargoyle Years
by Michael Luke
