Images of Italy. In 3 volumes. Volume 1. Venice. The Road to Florence. Florence. Cities of Tuscany. Volume 2. Rome. Latium. Naples and Sicily. Volume 3. From the Tiber to the Arno. North. Venetian Epilogue
99.99 €
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Images of Italy. In 3 volumes. Volume 1. Venice. The Road to Florence. Florence. Cities of Tuscany. Volume 2. Rome. Latium. Naples and Sicily. Volume 3. From the Tiber to the Arno. North. Venetian Epilogue
99.99 €
Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (1881-1950) was an art historian, writer, and a true man of Silver Age culture. As a former curator in the Department of Fine Arts and Classical Antiquities of the Rumyantsev Museum, Pavel Muratov was able to see the historical perspective and fascinating stories about cultural phenomena. Before the reader is one of the most famous books about Italy. Having visited the land of Dante, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo in 1908, Pavel Muratov forever fell in love with its beauty and wrote a book in which he managed to combine monuments, paintings and sights into single artistic images of Italian cities. In this book, following the author, the reader will see Venice, where masks, carnivals and festivities are surprisingly combined with deep thoughtfulness, depicted on the canvases of Venetian masters. Then walk the streets of Florence, where the history of masterpieces of art is intertwined with the history of power, intrigue and conspiracy, and finally visit the ancient cities of Tuscany. The edition contains many photoreproductions of engravings, mosaics, frescoes and paintings, including works by Bellini, Giotto, Botticelli, as well as photographs of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, depicting monuments of architecture and sculpture as Pavel Muratov himself saw them.
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