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Google Images can't spoil the fun — here are the most gorgeous art books of the season

The Glory of Byzantium and Early Christendom, The Making of Assisi, Spectacular Miracles, The King's Pictures, The Art Deco Poster and Turner and the Sea are some of our picks

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

7 December 2013

9:00 AM

Good news for the festive season — the inexorable rise of the virtual image on our computer screens, tablets, and mobile phones would appear to have done nothing to diminish the flood of gorgeously produced art books being published. This year’s selection ranges in time from the third century AD to now, and reaches all over the globe.

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David Ekserdjian  is professor of history of art and film at the University of Leicester and the author of Parmigianino.

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