Hardcover: 32 pages
Age Range: 6 - 9 years
Language: English
ISBN / Barcode: 9781580892957
No one wanted the "giant." The hulking block of marble lay in the work yard, rained on, hacked at, and abandoned until a young Michelangelo saw his David in it. This is the story of how a neglected, discarded stone became a masterpiece for all time. It is also a story about art about an...
The dying wish of 16-year-old Lina's mother was for her daughter to live in Tuscany and get to know her father, whom Lina has never met. "Howard is the best man I've ever known," her mother says, "he'll keep you safe." Why did her mother wait so long to tell her about him? Lina...
In From Giotto to Botticelli, Julia Miller and Laurie Taylor-Mitchell explore the three-hundred-year rise and fall of the Humiliati (&;Humbled Ones&;), a religious order infamous for its attempt to assassinate Saint Carlo Borromeo and ultimately suppressed, by papal bull, in 1571. This book...
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This is the most comprehensive book on the paintings and frescoes of Florence ever undertaken, with nearly 2,000 beautifully reproduced artworks from the city's great museums and churches-produced in the same manner as BD&L's The Louvre and The Vatican.
Every...
Amid the intrigue and danger of 18th-century Italy, a young woman becomes embroiled in romance and treachery with a rider in the Palio, the breathtaking horse race set in Siena....
It’s 1729, and the Palio, a white-knuckle horse race, is soon to be held in the heart of the peerless Tuscan...
Hardcover: 416 pages
(30 Jan 2005) Language English
150x220mm
Original Price $22,95
Paperback Edition $ 14,00
ISBN / Barcode: 9780425201046
Fortune may be blind, but misfortune sees us all too clearly—at least that's what the townspeople of Sant'Angelo d'Asso have come to believe, in this second novel by the author of Renato's Luck. The small Italian village, an hour south of Siena, has been hit with a spate of bad luck that...
A practicing artist, author, and curator, Timothy Hyman guides us through the golden age of Sienese painting, offering a new perspective on some of the world's most beautiful paintings, including Duccio's Maesta and Ambrogio Lorenzetti's famous Good Government frescoes. A sound understanding of the...
Discover one of the most charming places on earth through the incredible pictures featured here and find out why this place is adorable by all who visit. Showing everything from familiar sights to seldom-seen vistas, "The Secrets of Tuscany" is the definitive pictorial guide to this...
