The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits by Simon Schama

The Face of Britain: The Nation Through its Portraits

Simon Schama

632 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative slow-paced

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A portrait opens a window into a person's life: who they were and wanted to be, who the artist saw and how everyone else looked on.From the divine paintings of Elizabeth I to the iconic photograph of 'bulldog' Churchill; from Victorian portraits o...

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