Name: Artistic Places
ISBN: 9780711254534

Susie Hodge

Take an artistic pilgrimage to some of the world's most inspirational places for aesthetes and creatives with Artistic Places.

Artistic Places

Melanie Knight

A beautiful book to escape into for some armchair travel. Amy Grimes' illustrations for this book are stunning, but I would have liked it to have also included images of the original artworks that inspired each selection.

Lucía RG

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           *I was kindly sent this in exchange for an honest review via Netgalley*

This is my second book by this author; a couple of years ago I read Why your five-year-old could not have done that: Modern Art Explained; which I loved, so I was pretty excited to find out she was coming out with a new book.

This book was very informative, and it is clear that the author has thoroughly researched the places that she mentions. Some of them are very famous (like New York, Florence or Venice) but others I was very glad to discover things about, because even though I knew of the place, I knew very little about it (like Dessau and Bern).


The illustrations are so beautiful I don’t even have the words to describe them. I kind of want to hang them in my house.

The text was very hard to read, I don’t know if this was my fault or not, because of the format, but I almost gave up a couple of times because of how much it cost me to read the words.