<p>HardCover. Pub Date :2012-07-05 Pages: 864 Language: English Publisher: HarperPress The first biography since 1877 of Venices greatest artist - a towering work which captures the genius of Titian. beautifully illustrated throughout with full colour plates.Devoted father and loyal friend. Titian was notorious for disregarding authority and was an international celebrity by his late fifties. He was famously difficult but his stubbornness and horrendous timekeeping did nothing to deter his patrons who included the Hapsburgs. the Pope and his family and Charles.During his career. which spanned more than seventy years. Titian painted around five or six hundred pictures of which less than half survive. His work has been studied by generations of great artists from Rubens to Manet and he is often seen as having artistically transcended his own time . Sheila Hale not only examines h...</p>

Titian: His Life

Arts & Photography

Hale, Sheila

History & Criticism

London : HarperPress

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

<p>HardCover. Pub Date :2011-09-29 Pages: 768 Language: English Publisher: HarperPress A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history. from one of the finest historians of the Second World War A book which shows the impact. of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world-soldiers. sailors and airmen; housewives. farm workers and children.Reflecting Max Hastingss thirty-five years of research on World War II. All Hell Let Loose describes the course of events. but focuses chiefly upon human experience. which varied immensely from campaign to campaign. continent to continent.The author emphasises the Russian front. where more than 90% of all German soldiers who perished met their fate. He argues that. while Hitlers army often fought its battles brilliantly well. the Nazis conducted their war effort with stunning incompetence. He suggests that ...</p>

HASTINGS, Max.

History

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