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France 1940 by Philip Nord
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Philip Nord

PART III DEATH COMES TO THE REPUBLIC CHAPTER 5 ARMISTICE France’s Chamber of Deputies and Senate met in joint session on 10 July. The setting was Vichy, a spa town ...
( Category: European June 8,2015 )
Solar Dance by Modris Eksteins
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-30 | Author:Modris Eksteins [Eksteins, Modris]

CELA N’EST PAS … Self-Portrait (Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) By 1932 Otto Wacker, who said he loved beautiful things, was in deep financial difficulty. But so was Count Harry Kessler, ...
( Category: History June 7,2015 )
The Alchemy of Paint by Bucklow Spike
epub |eng | 2009-10-09 | Author:Bucklow, Spike [Bucklow, Spike]

i Three of Kronos’ children have already been mentioned. Empedocles identified Hades, Zeus and Hera, as fire, air and earth respectively. (The fourth element, water, was Kronos’ grandchild, Persephone, daughter ...
( Category: Use of Color June 6,2015 )
The Metropolis of Tomorrow by Hugh Ferriss
epub |eng | 2012-07-17 | Author:Hugh Ferriss

CROWDING TOWERS TO THE SKYSCRAPING HEIGHTS of the Future City, the popular fancy usually adds something remarkable in the way of overhead traffic avenues. Scores of drawings have been produced, ...
( Category: Architecture June 4,2015 )
Warhol: The Biography by Victor Bockris
epub, mobi |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Victor Bockris [Bockris, Victor]

* By August the mood of the Factory was changing. Paul Morrissey was having cubicles installed to encourage a business approach. Andy was looking for new directions. Gerard Malanga, who ...
( Category: Criticism June 1,2015 )
Art, Agency and Living Presence: From the Animated Image to the Excessive Object by van Eck Caroline
epub |eng | 2015-02-05 | Author:van Eck, Caroline [van Eck, Caroline]

Designing and looking at a building thus conceived both draw on a cultural memory shared by the architect and the viewer, and appeal to the viewer’s capacity to appreciate the ...
( Category: History May 28,2015 )
The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer
epub |eng | 2015-01-20 | Author:Karl E. Meyer

Chapter Fourteen Threads of Heaven On January 1, 1912, the revolutionary leader and Christian convert Sun Yat-sen returned from foreign exile to be inaugurated in Nanking as the first provisional ...
( Category: History May 27,2015 )
Master Thieves by Kurkjian Stephen
epub |eng | 2015-01-11 | Author:Kurkjian, Stephen

Whereabouts in the shed, one agent asked him casually. And Robert Jr., who shared his father’s softer side, gave him a straight answer—his father had placed a false floor in ...
( Category: Organized Crime May 27,2015 )
Michelangelo by Miles J. Unger
epub |eng | | Author:Miles J. Unger

IV. AGE OF ANXIETY The quarrel with his father increased Michelangelo’s sense of isolation; all the world seemed to have turned against him, and he was left feeling exhausted and ...
( Category: Europe May 7,2015 )
Rebels in Paradise by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Hunter Drohojowska-Philp

Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood in front of the double portrait of them painted by David Hockney Photograph courtesy of Don Bachardy Isherwood’s sexual inclinations could be gleaned from his ...
( Category: History April 5,2015 )
The Parthenon Enigma by Joan Breton Connelly
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-01-27 | Author:Joan Breton Connelly

Death of Prokris, showing her “bird-soul” leaving her body while her husband Kephalos and father Erechtheus watch. Column krater, by Hephaistos Painter, ca. 440 B.C. (illustration credit ill.103) I would ...
( Category: Landmarks & Monuments April 5,2015 )
Leonardo's Lost Princess by Peter Silverman
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Peter Silverman

After the initial media craze had died down, I found myself on a crowded flight to New York, squeezed unhappily between two passengers. I had placed a mock-up of the ...
( Category: Figure Drawing April 4,2015 )
Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated) (Masters of Art Book 1) by Bryant Peter
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-07-06 | Author:Bryant, Peter [Bryant, Peter]

A CONFUTATION OF THOSE WHO SAY THAT SHELLS MAY HAVE BEEN CARRIED TO A DISTANCE OF MANY DAYS’ JOURNEY FROM THE SEA BY THE DELUGE, WHICH WAS SO HIGH AS ...
( Category: History March 30,2015 )
Delphi Complete Works of Michelangelo (Illustrated) (Masters of Art Book 10) by Simoni Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti
azw |eng | 2014-12-13 | Author:Simoni, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti [Simoni, Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti]

CHAPTER V I While Michelangelo was living and working at Florence, Bramante had full opportunity to poison the Pope’s mind in Rome. It is commonly believed, on the faith of ...
( Category: History March 30,2015 )
Piero's Light by Larry Witham
epub |eng | 2013-12-02 | Author:Larry Witham

In his notes on the Baptism purchase, Eastlake had said that the work was “characteristic” of Piero and his age.53 That age was being called either “primitive,” or the age ...
( Category: Artists, Architects & Photographers March 22,2015 )

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