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Comprising more than 1,200 works of art from around the world, each piece is labelled with the date, country, title, artist, materials, size, and current location. So now i have this art book for an art class i had in under grad school about 4 years ago. This newest update features a more contemporary, more colorful design and vast array of extraordinarily produced illustrations that have become the janson hallmark. Funerary art produced to ensure a blissful after life.
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