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"North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post office mural in a sleepy southern town. Morgan knows nothing about art restoration,...

Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world-the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork. This book tells how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his...

The Art of Looking Up surveys 40 spectacular ceilings around the globe that have been graced by the brushes of artists including Michelangelo, Marc Chagall and Cy Twombly. From the floating women and lotus flowers of the Senso-ji Temple in Japan, first painted in the year 645, through to the religious iconography that adorns places of worship from Vienna to Istanbul, all the way to bold displays like that in the lobby of Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas,...

Learn about the history of graffiti, the different kinds of graffiti and more!

"Destined to become Colorado's foremost muralist, Allen Tupper True set out as a youthful illustrator of magazines and books. His illustrations, like his sun-drenched paintings of Taos and Santa Fe, forged a vision of the American West that was at once romantic and realistic. True went on to paint grand murals for Denver's Telephone Building and the state capitols of Colorado, Missouri, and Wyoming. He designed the Wyoming license plate's emblematic...

Martin of Gfenn is a work of historical fiction, the story of a young artist named Martin living in Zurich in the mid-thirteenth century. When he is nineteen, Martin contracts leprosy. He fights physical deterioration and social stigma to do what he believes he was meant to do - paint fresco. His short journey takes him from the streets of a swiftly growing Zurich to a to a small enclave of the Knights of Saint Lazarus, in the village of Gfenn.

Master muralist Graham Rust presents a lavishly illustrated grand tour of the house and what can be done to create special painted decorations for every room. 50 color drawings and 100 color photos.