Making A Masterpiece

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Making A Masterpiece. What makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.

Beginning with Botticelli?s The Birth of Venus, we travel through time and a range of styles and stories ? including theft, scandal, artistic reputation, politics and power ? to Warhol?s Campbell?s Soup Cans, challenging the idea of what a masterpiece can be, and arriving in the twenty-first century with Amy Sherald?s portrait of Michelle Obama, a modern-day masterpiece still to be tested by time.

Each artwork has a tale that reveals making a masterpiece often involves much more than ju