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Ross King

Ross King, born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, is the Canadian author of three books on Italian history and Art: Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power and Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture, which won the 2001 Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Adult Nonfiction. His study of French Impressionism, The Judgment of Paris, won the Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction in Canada. He lives in England, near Oxford.

Books by Ross King

The Bookseller of Florence

Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance

by (author) Ross King

The Bookseller of Florence

by (author) Ross King

The Story of Painting

How art was made

by (author) DK
foreword by Ross King

Art

The Definitive Visual Guide

by (author) Andrew Graham Dixon
foreword by Ross King

Mad Enchantment

Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies

by (author) Ross King

Artists

Their Lives and Works

by (author) DK
foreword by Ross King

Score One for the Dancing Girl, and Other Selections from the Kimun ch'onghwa

A Story Collection from Nineteenth-Century Korea

edited by Ross King & Si Nae Park
translated by James Scarth Gale
notes by Donguk Kim

Badlands

A Geography of Metaphors

by (author) Ken Dalgarno
foreword by Ross King

The Vatican: All the Paintings

The Complete Collection of Old Masters, Plus More than 300 Sculptures, Maps, Tapestries, and other Artifacts

by (author) Anja Grebe
introduction by Ross King

Leonardo and the Last Supper

by (author) Ross King

Alluring Presence

illustrated by Lyle Sopel
foreword by Ross King

Defiant Spirits

The Modernist Revolution of the Group of Seven

by (author) Ross King

The Judgment of Paris

The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism

by (author) Ross King