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“should be considered as a great, unit-driven classroom text for young people as it offers inroads to a variety of artists across numerous mediums from around the world.”
This book offers subjective facets of the Dutch Golden Age (circa 1566 to -1688 or as late as 1713))——the personal stories of 17 major artists as distilled by a highly cultiv
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