<b>Secrets can kill and Danni Brooks knows that better than anyone.</b><p>When her husband and two of her three children perish in a devastating house fire, Danni is sure it is arson. She's even more sure that her and her eldest daughter Mia were meant to die in the fire too. But they are just a nor

J.M.W. Turner was a painter whose treatment of light put him squarely in the pantheon of the world&#8217;s preeminent artists, but his character was a tangle of fascinating contradictions. While he could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate, he was also generous, question

JMW Turner was a prolific master born to a barber in Covent Garden, London, in 1775. When he died in 1851, he left over 19,000 artworks. Selecting which to include in this book was a major feat in itself. Turner was a Romantic when it came to landscapes, with an inimitable flair for seascapes, and w

At fifteen, Turner was already exhibiting View of Lambeth. He soon acquired the reputation of an immensely clever watercolourist. A disciple of Girtin and Cozens, he showed in his choice and presentation of theme a picturesque imagination which seemed to mark him out for a brilliant career as an ill

Paris: Editions Fabbri, 1988. — 35 p. — ISBN-2-907745-47-6.<div class="bb-sep"></div>Joseph Mallord William Turner, probablement né le 23 avril 1775 à Londres et mort le19 décembre 1851 à Chelsea, est un peintre, aquarelliste et graveur britannique. Initialement de la veine romantique anglaise, son

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