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The Lives of the Artists
by Giorgio Vasari -
Ways of Seeing
by John Berger -
The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art
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Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance
by Lisa Jardine -
Neglected Genius: The Diaries of Benjamin Robert Haydon, 1808–1846
by Benjamin Robert Haydon -
Diaries
by Eva Hesse