Musee D'Orsay

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Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra

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This year I have been interested in the saints, but I didn't know where to start looking for a book that was informative without being intimidating. A friend gave me this book for my birthday, and I immediately knew I had the introduction I was wanting. The stories of seventy saints are divided into ten categorical chapters -- from the Apostles to the Healers to the Renouncers. Each chapter then has an informative description of the lives of several saints. All of the biographical information is concise yet thoughtful. It is a delight to read. Much of this pales when compared to the quality of the book itself. This book is nicely bound, with beautiful detailing. The artwork is astounding and enhances the biographical content. The layout is consistent, which is more than can be said for many modern books. I just don't think I can recommend this book highly enough for someone who wants to learn more about saints without purchasing an enormous tome. My only dilemna is whether to put it on my coffee table or in my study. D-13

Saints: Seventy Stories of Faith

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Review\nHLLA publishes the best art books in the world. Open this one to any page, and you won't argue with that statement. -- The Statesman Journal

Looks at the history and collections found in the MusÂee du Louvre and the MusÂee d'Orsay.

Louvre and the Musee D'Orsay

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Hardcover: 640 pages Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates; 1st Edition edition ISBN-10: 0883635062 ISBN-13: 978-0883635063 13.7 x 10.4 x 3.4 inches Weight: 11.2 pounds

The Louvre and Musee D'Orsay

Hugh Lauter Levin Associates

The Galleria degli Uffizi is the world's oldest museum. The building itself is a masterpiece, originally designed by Giorgio Vasari, architect, painter, and telltale author of the lives of the Renaissance artists. Its aristocratic walls house two unparalleled collections: The Galleria displays masterpieces of painting dating from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, as well as great works of sculpture from classical antiquity. The second collection, known as the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, holds nearly 120,000 drawings and prints; begun as a collection in the mid-sixteenth century, it is still expanding today.The Uffizi Gallery Museum tells the story of these incredible collections, begun in the mid-1500s by history's greatest art patrons and singular family, the Medici. With more than 300 outstanding full-color illustrations and a remarkably insightful text, the brilliance of the Renaissance in Florence, Italy - a magnet city for the greatest painters, sculptors, artisans, and writers of that era - comes to life, and with it the story of this incomparable building, its history, and its collections.

Uffizi Gallery Museum

The Pitti Palace is a long, aristocratic dwelling that seems to have landed - along with the somewhat awkward piazza in front of it - amid a warren of small buildings, boutiques, cafes, and repair shops in Florence, across the Arno River from the busy city center. For 300 years the Pitti served as a palace, with its bright and serene expanses serving as a mirror of history, home first to the Medici, Florence's ruling family and the greatest art patrons of their time, and later to the House of Savoy, the imperial family of Europe. Upon its silk-and damask-lined walls hang some of the finest masterpieces in the world.The Pitti Palace Collections features nearly 300 full-color illustrations of the greatest works of art housed within and beyond the glamour of the Pitti itself. Reflected in the pages of this book are several different self-defined collections currently housed within the edifice. The Pitti Palace Collections focuses first on the palace itself; then on the paintings in the Palatine Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art; the porcelain and silverworks collections, as encompassed by the Decorative Arts section; and finally, the unparalleled Boboli Gardens, one of the finest examples of classical Italian garden design anywhere in the world.A text by Alexandra Bonfante-Warren is your guide to this unique experience, revealing not only the magnificent artworks themselves, but also a deeper understanding of the makings of the imperial art collections that lie behind the imposing walls of this incomparable palace.

Pitti Palace Collections

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