Making A Masterpiece av Debra N. Mancoff

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<B>What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.</B><BR/><BR/> Beginning with<B> Botticelli’s <I>The Birth of Venus</I></B>, we travel through time and a range of styles and stories – including <B>theft, scandal, artistic reputation, politics and power</B>– to <B>Warhol’s <I>Campbell’s Soup Cans</I></B>, challenging the idea of what a masterpiece can be, and arriving in the twenty-first century with<B> Amy Sherald’s portrait of Michelle Obama</B>, a modern-day masterpiece still to be tested by time.<BR/> <BR/> Each artwork has a tale that reveals making a masterpiece often involves much more than just a demonstration of artistic skill: their path to fame is only fully disclosed by looking beyond what the eye can see. Rather than trying to describe the elements of greatness, Making a Masterpiece takes acc