This book contains stories and short history on the places that inspired humanity's greatest artists.

There are many stories and the histories about how many fascinating places like Bern, Venice, Florence, Holland, Pacific islands and volcanic regions inspired some of our greatest artists to produce some amazing work.

Keep in mind that there are no artworks in the book for the most part except for a variety of illustrative sketches showing the vision of the artist when they were at the location being described.

Wonderful book. I have purchased everyone of her books. Illustrations are beautiful and the descriptions of the places are delightful.

This is a great book to learn about places artists lived and how they were inspired by the scenery. Each chapter shares information about a spectacular place around the world and the artist that created a masterpiece from the area.

I loved the bright colors of the illustrations. They were a great representation of the places mentioned in the book. The information about each city and artist was very informative. This would be a great resource to take with you when you travel! If you enjoy reading about art masterpieces and artists, you will appreciate this book! Can’t wait to get back to exploring this beautiful world we live in!

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group-White Lion for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

A very pretty illustrated guide to where the physical locations were that inspired famous paintings, accompanied by renderings of the paintings in the artist's style. It will help you dream of places to travel to scout these locations.

Thank you to the publishers and NetGalley for the opportunity to review a temporary digital ARC in exchange for an unbiased review.

Like other reviewers, I had trouble downloading this title, but what I could experience was wonderful. The illustrations were delightful, using a beautiful color palette to reimagine the locations which inspired artists. I highly recommend this as a restful, inspiring read for those interested in art and travel! 4 stars instead of 5 because it is almost entirely white artists, and I would appreciate a more diverse selection of artists from art history being highlighted.

Is this a travel guide? Is this an art book? Perhaps it is the beautiful marriage of these two genres. Beautifully illustrated, the book offers information about the places that served as muses for artists such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Paul Gauguin, Michelangelo, Canaletto, Vincent van Gogh, and Claude Monet.

I only wish the book was a bit longer.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing- white lion for kindly providing me with a digital copy of this book for review.
This is a lovely visual feast of a book. It looks at 25 places around the world which have inspired artists to produce their famous artworks. The illustrations by Amy Grimes are of the actual places discussed in the text, and not interpretations of the famous artworks. I found the information really interesting and I’ve definitely added a few places to the bucket list of places to visit. One good thing about books like these in these times is that we can precariously travel and do the tourist thing, when we have no physical way of travelling. I hope it’s not too much longer before it’s safe for the world to open up and there is the possibility of seeing these places in person.
I really like the bright and vibrant illustrations in this book. They’re not too detailed and it’s quite stylised but it really appeals to me and makes me reminiscent of the old railway advertisement posters. I really enjoyed this book but I do feel a small picture of the artwork being discussed would have been useful as I wasn’t familiar with quite a few pieces discussed and needed to use our good friend google to get an idea of what was being discussed.

I mistakenly picked this book without focusing on the details of the content. It is a very good collection of information regarding the locations on which famous paintings were based. The accompanying artwork are drawings/caricatures instead of actual pictures of the paintings in question.
The details were interesting but given that I had no background in world art, I was unable to read the whole work. For anyone who has even a little bit of knowledge of the artists who made famous paintings, this will be a great book to peruse in company.

If you're looking for a fresh travel idea, check out Artistic Places. Writer Susie Hodge and illustrator Amy Grimes have paired well-known paintings with a colorful description of each place. Some works are very famous, some less so, but each tells a story--from Salvador Dali's Persistence of Memory and Catalonia, to The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Katsushika Hokusai and Mt. Fuji, Japan. If I were to take this book traveling, I would have preferred to have pictures of the actual paintings mentioned, in addition to Grimes's beautiful illustrations. Not everyone can call up famous paintings from memory. But this is a lovely armchair travel volume.

*received for free from netgalley for honest review* What beautiful artwork! i love all the artwork, the style and the color schemes in this book!

I completely love travel excursions through photography, so I curious to try the same with hand illustrations. I was not disappointed. The illustrations were beautiful, and the descriptions were informative. I had to use my imagination a little more than other travel books, which was a nice change and challenge. I was able to research and learn beyond what was provided, which is always a sign of a good book to me. I received a complimentary copy from the publisher through NetGalley and all opinions expressed are my own, freely given.

What a beautiful little book! Beautiful AND informative!

In Artistic Places, the reader can find gorgeous illustrations of different places throughout the world, but also informations about said places and about the artists inspired by them!
I knew about some of them, like Vincent Van Gogh ; I discovered about others, such as Anni Albers, who I didn't know at all!

I really loved it: it had everything to please me! I learnt things, I saw great art (I searched the mentioned works of art on Internet) both by very well-known artists and by the illustrator of the book, Amy Grimes.
Maybe its only drawback: I really want to travel to these places now and I can't for the time being! But, one day!!

Clearly, this book is one I'd like to have on my shelves because of both its beauty and content!

Artistic Places introduces several regions that are intrinsically linked to an author's work. They might have inspired one famous artwork, like Gernika for Picasso; they might have been a literal inspiration for a whole career, like O'Keefe in New Mexico; or they may be part of a shared history, like Michelangelo and Florence. There's very touristic destinations, like London and New York; and barely known ones, like Dessau and Lake Mälaren.

This is a book that I wouldn't take with me on a trip, but that I would definitely read as a way of "travelling from home." It is simple enough to be comprehensible for those who are interested in art, but aren't experts, and there's just the right amount of history discussed and advice for those who will travel to the area. It is a good starting point if you want to visit some of these places in the future.

However, I assumed there would be pictures of either the artworks or, at least, the towns discussed in the book. As beautiful as the graphic art is, it is not quite the same, and having to stop to Google both painting and town while reading was a bit annoying.

I was first attracted to the cover of this book, being a big fan of Monet. The book focuses on locations that inspired famous artists with the book's illustrator adding their own interpretation of the view. I really do like her work--it's bold and colorful. The text describes each location from an artistic point of view, with stories about the artist(s) when they lived in that environment. A nice twist for someone who's planning a trip, as it adds a different perspective to the usual travel guides. It would be an excellent addition to a public library collection or to a serious traveler's library.

This book is gorgeous - the images are lovely and evocative. I already knew about some of these places, and artists while others were new discoveries. I like the idea that a particular place holds artistic inspiration but I wonder could all places be inspirational for the right artist?

My favourite section was the Frida Kahlo one - she was an inspiring woman and it was interesting to read more about what inspired her.

My thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

Apologies, I did not download this file in time before it was archived, and I've only realised that now when it has been placed in Archived-Not Downloaded.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Such an amazing read for lovers of art and travelling. This book attracted me first with its beautiful cover and after that it made me so eager to get back to it because of the wonderful and stunning artwork created by the illustrator that accompany each description of the places visited by some of the greatest artists of our time. Actually, Amy Grimes created her own vision of those places in her illustrations and not the visions of the real artists named in the book.

I loved the author's original idea about this book. I loved to read about what inspired some of my favorite artists such as Dali, Monet, Michelangelo, Kahlo, Matisse and Klimt. That was so precious. In such a time where you can't go to any place this book would make you imagine and dream about all those beautiful landscapes and might inspire you to visit them in the future.



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A guidebook of various places that have been drawn and painted in various famous paintings like Guernica in Spain, Giverny in France, and Arles in France. Unfortunately, the book falls short of my expectations. Despite the stunning cover illustration (one of the additional reasons I chose the book), I expected actual photographs of these said places which were the source of inspiration for so many artists juxtaposed alongside actual paintings and not the digitally-created illustrations which are basically reproductions. They are beautiful in their own accord but they do not serve the aim of the book. Anyone who wishes to travel to Arles and imagine what it must have been like for van Gogh to paint living in that place will want to see van Gogh's paintings and the real snapshots of Arles to get a congruent picture.

I was drawn to this book by the wonderful artwork on the cover, The idea of exploring some of the landscapes and places captured by famous artists was an intriguing one and I thought that the information given about the artists' relationships with the places was interesting. I was, however, surprised that the actual paintings being discussed did not appear in the book, and although it is easy enough now to search for the art online, it seems strange it wouldn't be figured in the book.

Thanks to NetGalley and publishers, Quarto Publishing Group - White Lion Publishing, for the opportunity to read an ARC.

“Even if we’ve never been there, some places in the world can be uncannily familiar. They might be misty mountain ranges or craggy ravines, dense forests or sunlit waterways, imposing architecture with ornamental facades, flower filled fields, secluded interiors, mystical mountains or tranquil ponds. They may be exhilarating places that take our breath away or calm locations that fill us with comfort, like a warm scarf on a cold day.”

These 25 places have been interpreted by talented artists, entire worlds are created for us in pencil, paint, ink, or pastel, or marble or bronze, or even in wool, silk and other textiles, sometimes colourful, sometimes sober, often uplifting or contemplative, threatening or restful. And we have seen them often, in galleries or in reproductions — localities that have become iconic, presented to us by an artist’s skilful hand.

“Artistic Places” includes: Whistler’s atmospheric River Thames scenes; Constable’s English countryside; Hepsworth’s St. Ives, an inspiration of light, sea, wind and hills; Rego’s rugged Portuguese coastline; Picasso’s Guernica; Dali’s Catalonia; Claude Monet’s home in Giverny, a place of abundant flowers and tranquility; van Gogh’s Arles, an ancient Roman city of swirling skies and artistic legends; Magritte’s Brussels; Klee’s Bern; Michaelangelo’s iconic Renaissance city, Florence; Canaletto’s Venice, a magical jewel-box city; Vermeer’s Delft; Anni Albers industrial Bauhaus in Germany; Friedrich’s Elbe Sandstone Mountains; Klimt’s ethereal, glass-like Lake Attersee; Munch’s Norwegian fjordland; Hilma af Klimt’s Lake Malaren; Matisse’s Tangier, a city filled with evocative northern light; Katsushika Hokusai’s Mount Fugi; Gaugin’s Tahiti; Basquiat’s New York; Grant Wood’s rural Iowa; the faraway otherworldliness of O’Keefe’s New Mexican desert, and Coyocan, Kahlo’s sultry, magical neighborhood.

Susie Hodges is clearly very knowledgeable about art and artists and writes lyrically about the places she has chosen for this magnificently produced book. Her writing is often in conversation with the natural world and the artistic life. She roams across centuries, very different histories, lives and places. “Artistic Places” is vivid, strongly present and beautifully organized. Amy Grimes’ bright and bold illustrations celebrate the collaboration between art and writing. There is so much to enjoy here I found myself sinking into the book and dreamily taking in the art and places.

A huge thank you to @NetGalley and #WhiteLionPublishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.