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A biography of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, focusing on his tragic personal life.

Discusses how art impersonator Han van Meegeren forged paintings and fooled Hermann Goering, a Nazi leader--and other people in the world--into believing his pieces to be the work of admired artists such as Johannes Vermeer.

Contains over 250 drawings and paintings along with over 150 letters of nineteenth-century Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh.

Draws from letters written by Vincent van Gogh's brother Theo to examine the life and art of the nineteenth-century Dutch painter, and includes artistic exercises and games, as well as numerous illustrations.

Chronicles the life and work of fifteenth-century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, and features reproductions of selected paintings he completed over the course of his career. Includes a time line.

A biography of Anne Frank, including the historical events which forced her to hide with her family in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.

Presents a study of nineteenth-century Dutch-born artist Vincent van Gogh, tracing his developing technique, discussing his original use of color, and examining the connections between events in his life and his painting. Features forty color plates, each with commentary, as well as black-and-white reproductions.

An account of the seventeenth-century Dutchman's capture of a supposedly impregnable Spanish treasure fleet in the Caribbean, thereby signalling the demise of the Spanish empire.

After spending three years hiding from the Nazis, a Jewish family is reunited and begins the job of rebuilding their country and family.

Describes the background in which Anne Frank's life and diary were set as she hid in an attic in Nazi-occupied Holland for two years.