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A timely history of immigration, integration and national identity that reveals the true heritage behind some of the nation’s defining artworks

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Leslie Primo is an independent art historian specializing in early to late medieval and Renaissance art. He has presented several art history programmes for the BBC and regularly lectures at the National Portrait Gallery, Imperial College London, Arts Society and other leading institutions. Primo’s commitment to interrogating the historical canon and championing inclusive narratives continues through this book, his first with Thames & Hudson.

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A timely history of immigration, integration and national identity that reveals the true heritage behind some of the nation’s defining artworks.

To truly understand British art is to recognize the pivotal contributions of the many foreign artists who have called Britain home. Traditional narratives have long obscured foreign influence, but this radical study challenges the notion of an exceptional or exclusive British culture, and in so doing rewrites the history of Renaissance and Enlightenment-era art

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