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Our most recommended books
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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
by Joseph Leo Koerner -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Four Books on Architecture (I quattro libri dell'architettura)
by Andrea Palladio -
Leonardo da Vinci: i documenti e le testimonianze contemporanee
by Edoardo Villata -
The Correspondence of John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton
by Charles Eliot Norton