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100 1 $aConnor, Alexandra.
245 10 $aPrivate view /$cAlexandra Connor.
250 $aLarge print edition.
260 $aLeicester :$bThorpe,$c2016.
300 $a252 pages (large print) ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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490 0 $aCharnwood
520 $aBehind universally admired works of art - THE LAUGHING CAVALIER by Hals, THE BIRTH OF VENUS by Botticelli, THE THINKER by Rodin, and many more - are the artists themselves, whose lesser-known eccentricities are revealed in PRIVATE VIEW. Here is Fra Filippo Lippi, a friar who had to be locked in a room by the Pope in order to keep him at the easel and away from the bedroom. William Blake, who talked to the dead - and Theodore Gericault, who brought the dead home with him to use as unpaid models. Here is Rembrandt, who not only owned a monkey himself, but once painted a similar creature into a patron's family portrait. And of course the swaggering Michelangelo, who as a child recommended his 'perfect' services 'in all humility' to the Duke of Milan ...
521 $aAdult.
650 0 $aArtists$vAnecdotes.
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655 0 $aLarge type books.
655 7 $aAnecdotes.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423876
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