Written in French. Behind every great masterpiece of painting is a story, or rather stories. From the Lascaux caves to the Temptation of Saint Anthony by Jérôme Bosch, from Van Eyck's Portrait of the Arnolfini couple to Cézanne's Card Players, from Botticelli's Venus to Douanier Rousseau's Snake Charmer, a thousand and one facets of the history of painting are revealed in this book. Both sparkling and precise, Clémence Simon takes us on a journey of discovery of this fascinating story... reinvented under the brushes of Pierre-Adrien Sollier. A famous art historian once wrote: look closer and
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