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The Violin
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Birkhäuser Architectural Guide Japan
This book, like all volumes in the Birkhauser Architectural Guide series, beginning with Germany by Nerdinger/Tafel, successfully represents all important developments of the 20th century. This includes work by the masters Kenzo Tange, Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando, the projects of younger architects such as Itsuko Hasegawa, Hiroshi Naito and Kazuo Shinohara as well the buildings designed by foreign architects such as Aldo Rossi, Cesae Pelli, Rem Koolhaas and Norman Foster. Nearly 400 buildings are introduced in separate entries. The addresses locating each building and the weatherproof jacket make the book an indispensible companion for all travelers to Japan. It is also a valuable, and inexpensive reference guide by virtue of extensive indices and bibliographical information.
Francesco's Italy
Following the success of Francesco's Venice, Francesco da Mosto ventures further afield, this time taking in all of Italy. As he visits the spectacular lakes and fashionable cities of the north and passes through the hills of Tuscany before heading south towards Rome, Naples, and Palermo, he celebrates the country's art and culture--its cathedrals, churches, palaces, opera houses, paintings, sculpture, music, and cuisine. Introducing us to many of the figures who populate the country's rich and vibrant history, his journey also takes in Italian society as it is today. Splendidly illustrated with John Parker's breathtaking color photos and enlivened with marvelous anecdotes about his family and the fascinating characters he meets along the way, Francesco's Italy is the story of both the country we all know and love and the secret Italy only an insider can reveal.
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The Art of Renaissance Venice
Norbert Huse and Wolfgang Wolters provide the first contemporary single-volume survey of the three arts of Venice -- painting, sculpture, and architecture. They offer an important counterbalance to the traditional orientation toward painting as the city's preeminent art by focusing on architecture as the essential Venetian artistic medium. In the process, they define the distinctly Venetian terms by which the city and culture should be understood. Huse and Wolters begin their study with 1460, when Venice was one of the key powers of Italy, and end their discussion with the death of Tintoretto in 1594, a period of waning international power. Wolfgang Wolters outlines the city's development an...
