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Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistFrom bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of legendary artist Claude Monet and the story of his most memorable achievement, the water lilies.Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous. Seeing them in museums around the world, viewers are transported by the power of Monet's brus...

From the acclaimed author of Brunelleschi's Dome and Leonardo and the Last Supper, the riveting story of how Michelangelo, against all odds, created the masterpiece that has ever since adorned the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Despite having completed his masterful s...

With a novelist's skill and the insight of an historian, bestselling author Ross King recalls a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and the rivalry between Meissonier and Manet.While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris: The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn an...

The New York Times bestselling, award winning story of the construction of the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence and the Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture to build it.On August 19, 1418, a competition concerning Florence's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore was announced: "Whoever desires to make any model or design for the vaulting of the main Dome....shall do so before the end of the month of September." Th...

CD-ROM includes Sino-Korean companion workbook to help master Chinese characters used in Korean.

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In 1508 Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Excerpt from The Aboriginal Tribes of the Nilgiri HillsThey are lighter in colour than the Hindoos proper, and also than any of the true hill - tribes, from whom they are besides easily distinguished at'a distance on account of their wearing turbans. They are beardless, slightly built, and smooth in limb.Several different classes exist among them, the more wealthy owning the only cows and oxen on the hills, as well as herds of buffaloes, many ...

De waterlelieschilderijen van Claude Monet behoren tot de meest geliefde kunstwerken van de vorige eeuw. Al zijn ze nog zo bekend, slechts weinigen weten dat deze rustgevende afbeeldingen werden geschilderd in een periode vol onrust en droefheid van de kunstenaar. Vlak na elkaar brak de Eerste Wereldoorlog uit, verloor Monet zijn vrouw en een zoon en begon hij, inmiddels 71 jaar, blind te worden. Tot overmaat van ramp werd zijn reputatie onder...

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Londra, XVIII secolo. George Cautley, un giovane pittore in cerca di fortuna, conosce a un ballo di società la misteriosa e affascinante Lady Beauclair, alla quale promette di dipingere un ritratto. Durante le sedute di posa, la dama racconta a Cautley la scandalosa storia di Tristano, il celebre cantante italiano che, cinquant'anni prima, aveva infiammato le scene e i salotti londinesi. Allo stesso ballo, però, Cautley conosce anche il famoso...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, with its immense, terracotta-tiled cupola, retains a rare power to astonish. This book tells the story of how the cupola was raised, from its conception to its consecration.

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Excerpt from The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada, or Notes on the Natural History of the Game, Game Birds and Fish of That CountryThe climate is as healthy as it is delightful, at all seasons: whether in the glorious days of 'summer, when ruby-throated humming-birds ¿it from ¿ower to ¿ower, in the glowing autumn, when tints of brightness unknown in other lands invest the forest with their gorgeous mantle, in the dreamy softness of that wond...

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King's literary thriller combines the layered, multifaceted narrative style of Iain Pears' "Instance of the Fingerpost" with Dorothy Dunnett's broad-canvas grasp of English history. The story, set in 1660s London sparkles with intrigue and adventure, literature, history, politics, and philosophy.

Ross King's delightful, Rabelaisian novel recounts the adventures of young George Cautley, an aspiring artist who, as he makes his way through London's high society, finds that nothing is as it seems and everyone wears a disguise. Moving from masquerade balls in London to the magnificent and mysterious opera houses of Venice, Cautley is drawn into a web of intrigue and murder spun by the seductive and tempestuous Lady Beauclair. Suspenseful, m...