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The face of Britain. A history of the nation through its portraits by Simon Schama; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain); British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service is a art available to read on EtoBox.
What is The face of Britain. A history of the nation through its portraits about?
Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibition Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century; the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn't possess in life; a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces brought in from the Battle
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- Author
- Simon Schama; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain); British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
- Publisher
- [London]: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241963715
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Art, History, Portraits
- Rating
- 3.98 / 5 (83 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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