Angelo
From Amazon.com: From the creator of The New Way Things Work, Castle, and Black and White, comes a poignant tale of a very curious friendship. Angelo is an old Italian craftsman who restores facades of Roman buildings. Sweeping away feathers and twigs [... more]
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Architectural Heritage of the Caribbean: An A-Z of ...
Better Choices Available!: I order every book on Caribbean architecture I can find. My biggest disappointment with this one is with the drawings, most of which are from Pamela Gosner's Caribbean Georgian, published by Three Continents Press in 1982. (You' [... more]
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Art and Experience in Classical Greece
Profound Beauty...Insight...Enrichment...: \olet this man speak for himself...\c A thoughtful observer of these events, like Aeschylus, could not but have felt uneasiness. Were the Greek cities and the factions within them being drawn, through their [... more]
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The Classical Language of Architecture
Do you like looking at buildings?: I was introduced to this classic work in a course on Michelangelo by John Shearman at Harvard, and I'm writing this review because I'm convinced this book deserves wider distribution. It's essentially an illustrated [... more]
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Archaic Smile: Poems
Stunning Debut: "Archaic Smile", a term from art history, refers to the enigmatic smiles on Greek statues from the archaic period, which ends roughly with the sack of Athens by the Persians in 480 B.C. What is enigmatic about the archaic smile [... more]
CDN$15.63
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Angelo
From Amazon.com: From the creator of The New Way Things Work, Castle, and Black and White, comes a poignant tale of a very curious friendship. Angelo is an old Italian craftsman who restores facades of Roman buildings. Sweeping away feathers and twigs [... more]
CDN$18.50
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