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| Renaissance Artist, Fra Angelico "It was said that, to be able to paint angels so convincingly, Fra Angelico must have been used to seeing them around him. But it might also be said that he had the gift of transforming men into angels and saintsŠand in fact we often feel that his saints of both sexes are portraits-sketches from life, but charged with a power of transcendent evocation. His paintings might be described as visual commentaries on the Gospels, whose purpose is to interpret the highest ideals of the monastic life, and point the way to heaven." -Lionello Venturi in Italian Painting. |
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The Renaissance: European Painting 1400-1600 Charles McCorquodale NDE, Toronto, 1999. 
| The Renaissance period was one of the most exciting and innovative in Western art, and has never failed to stimulate the imagination with its remarkable wealth of talent. In this comprehensive and stimulating study, the first of its kind and scope, Charles McCorquodale presents a panorama of the whole period in painting, covering the major European countries affected by new ideas. |
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Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door 2000 Rick Steves Avalon Travel, 1999. 
| Most guidebooks tell where to travel. This one teaches readers how to travel so they have a far more interesting vacation, instead of just another standard tour. Steves' Back Door travel philosophy, gained from more than 25 years as a traveler and tour guide, leads away from typical tourist traps and shows how to plan a trip using family- owned restaurants, local lodgings, and the sights visitors want to see. |
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The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1970 | The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes. |
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The King and the Corpse Heinrich Zimmer, edited by Joseph Campbell Princeton University Press, Princeton 1993 | Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. |
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The Unicorn Tapistries Adolfo Cavallo Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1998 
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I absolutely love the unicorn tapestries, and I fulfilled a childhood dream when i saw them at the Cluny museum in paris. The colors are vivid and beautiful and do justice to these awesome tapestries. - Amazon.com Customer |
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From Van Eyck to Bruegel Edditors Ainsworth & Christiansen Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1998. |
If there were a first prize ... for beauty of statement and probity of elucidation, this catalogue would run away with it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. - The New York Times Book Review, John Russell |
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The Flowering of the Middle Ages Edited by Joan Evans Barnes and Noble | |
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The Goddesses and Gods of Old Europe Marija Gimbutas University of California, Berkeley, 1996 
| Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994) was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Curator of Old World Archaeology at what is now the Fowler Museum of Cultural History. |
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Irish Myths and Legends Lady Gregory Running Press, Philadelphia, 1998. | Brave heroes and powerful gods match brains and brawn in these classicv tales of Celtic mythology. A reprint of Lady Augusta Gregory's "Gods and Fighting Men", this volume includes the original Preface. |
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Discovering Great Music Roy Hemming Newmarket, New York 
| This indispensable sourcebook for buying and listening to classical music from Baroque to New Age covers 60 composers and 150 recording artists performing today, and buying recommendations for the best recordings. |
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