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Enzo Ferrari testing his eight-cylinder Alfa Romeo, 1924. Enzo had a passion for cars and racing them, but building them was an even greater ambition. Scuderia Ferrari was born in 1929 and the rest is history!  ––––––––––––––––––––––– Available now as an ebook! Jed Paine Ferraris are best known for their sleek, stunning, and curvaceous design, eye-watering price tag, and standard rosso corsa (race red) paintwork. From the very first Ferrari – the 1947 Tipo 125 S racing sports car – through to the more recent 2013 LaFerrari mild hybrid limited edition road car, Ferrari have continued to astound enthusiasts and critics alike with their evolutionary performance road vehicles and unrivalled Formula 1 racing pedigree. Yet, motoring history might have been so different – Enzo Ferrari was a reluctant manufacturer. He initially built and sold production vehicles purely to fund his Scuderia Ferrari racing team. For every success on the track, though, came a wave of innovation to be applied ...

A watercolor over graphite portraying the view of the cathedral of Christ Church and part of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, painted by Turner in 1803-04. He often painted Abbeys, historical buildings and crumbling castles. ––––––––––––––––––––––– Available now as an ebook! Brittany Rowen J. M. W. Turner is undoubtedly one of the greatest British artists of all time. The originality of his paintings – despite the fact he worked quickly – is brilliant and unrivaled. He became a successful artist at a young age and went on to become a prominent member of the Royal Academy. Brought up in London, very near the River Thames, he became fascinated with the river and its vessels early in life. Water and ships were to remain one of his biggest influences, and many of his 20,000 or so works are dedicated to seascapes. Turner was keen to experience as many influences as possible and he traveled extensively across the British Isles and Europe in search of inspiration. Turner made money fr...

Renoir working in his studio at Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, 1915. He had been  suffering from horrendously bad arthritis in his later years and was eventually forced to use a wheelchair to get around. ––––––––––––––––––––––– Available now as an ebook! Sabine Miller Renoir was renowned for his works with their vibrant light and color and the harmony of the lines he portrayed within his landscapes and figure paintings. At the beginning of his prolific career he employed the Impressionist techniques, where detail was denied and replaced with soft fusions between characters and their surroundings. While he moved away from this style in the middle of his career – known as his Ingres Period, where he concentrated on more definition like the conventional and traditional painters – he returned to the softness of his earlier style toward the end of his life. Renoir was greatly influenced by artists such as Rubens, Titian, Raphael, Eugène Delacroix, and his contemporary and friend...